Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools offers three podcast series:
1. Research Encounter, hosted by Elliott Rabin, Prizmah‘s director of thought leadership, presents a discussion between a researcher and a day school leader about a recent work of scholarship.
2. Prizmah Podcasts Live showcases innovative and transformative initiatives taking place in Jewish schools. Each episode includes a presentation, conversation and audience q&a.
3. Start-up Day School, hosted by Josh Gold, middle school principal at HAFTR, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways in Lawrence, New York, offers a give-and-take on matters of contemporary educational leadership in Jewish schools.
Prizmah envisions a vibrant, passionate, knowledgeable, and committed Jewish community, empowered by Jewish day schools, for generations to come. Our mission is to strengthen the North American day school field. We are the network for Jewish day schools and yeshivas, enhancing their ability to excel and thrive, by deepening talent, catalyzing resources, and accelerating educational innovation.
Episodes
Wednesday May 13, 2026
Wednesday May 13, 2026
Featuring Dr. Vardit Ringvald and Sharon Schoenfeld
The events of October 7 marked a turning point for Hebrew educators, shifting their role from language instructors to cultural mediators of Israel’s complex realities. This situation has brought us to a critical moment of reconsideration for the profession. Explore the evolving professional identity of Hebrew educators and begin to consider your own pedagogical approach and actions. Examine the connection between the Hebrew language, Israel, and Israelis, and how language serves as a reflection of its speakers and their place in the world. Leave this webinar with concrete strategies and best practices to ensure that Hebrew education remains effective in fostering language acquisition while authentically expressing the culture and lived realities of its speakers.
In partnership with Academic Studies Press
Vardit is the director of the Brandeis University Consortium for The Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture and a research professor at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. Her current work includes a focus on the intersection of Hebrew language and culture in pedagogy and practice.
Sharon holds a master’s degree in teaching Hebrew as a second language from Middlebury College She is currently the director of Kayitz Kef / Hebrew at Camp at the Brandeis Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture. Her work focuses on experiential Hebrew immersion initiatives and the mentoring and training of program leaders.
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