North America
The Posen Foundation is directing its
efforts to establish programs in middle school and high school to
educate secular Jewish children in grades 7 through 12. Efforts are
underway in several areas:
- Partner with other philanthropists to establish a new Middle School/High School of Jewish History and Cultures.
- Collaborate with existing Jewish day schools to broaden their
mission to reach all Jewish students, including the secular, and to
broaden curricular offerings to include studies in the secularization
of Judaism over the past three centuries and the modern secular Jewish
experience.
- Establish and support teacher professional development to train
teachers in non-sectarian private and public schools, and in Jewish
schools to understanding the varieties and complexities of Judaism and
the secular traditions within modernity.
Israel
The Foundation is engaged in a joint pilot
project in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Rishon
LeZion Municipality. In the framework of the project, Judaism as
Culture programs are taught in grades 8 and 10 in 23 junior high
schools in the city. The teachers include Ofakim graduates and teachers who receive special on-the-job training.
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