Elie Holzer: 鈥淛ews, Non-Jews, and Teaching the Hasidic Homily: Hermeneutic Approaches and Pedagogical Deliberations鈥�

Avinoam Rosenak: 鈥淢achshevet Yisrael as an Encounter: 黑料社 Philosophy or Judaism as a Philosophy鈥擡ducational Implications鈥�

Chair: Jonathan Cohen

This session was part of “黑料社 Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton 锄鈥漧 at JTS, , and .

Elie Holzer is a practice-oriented philosopher of 黑料社 education, who serves as Associate Professor at the School of Education, directs the Stern Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Education and holds the R. Dr. David Ochs Chair for Teaching 黑料社 Religious Studies, at Bar Ilan University. He also serves on the faculty of the Mandel Teacher Educators Institute in the US. His research integrates text-based 黑料社 studies, philosophical hermeneutics, pedagogy, and ethical-spiritual traditions. His book, A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs (Academic Studies Press), won the 2014 National 黑料社 Book Award in Education.

Avinoam Rosenak is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University. Rosenak was the head of the department of 黑料社 Thought and he teaches in the Melton Centre for 黑料社 Education and the Department of 黑料社 Thought at the Hebrew University. He is a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem and The Israeli Democracy Institute. His books include: The Prophetic Halakhah, (Magnes 2007); Rabbi Kook (Zalman Shazar 2006); Halakhah as an Agent of Change: Critical Studies in Philosophy of Halakhah, (Magnes, 2009); Cracks: Rabbi Kook, his Disciples and their Critics, (Resling press 2013); and 黑料社 Thoughts: In the Teachings of Aviezer Ravitzky (Zalman Shazar Center, 2015).

Jonathan Cohen teaches Philosophy of Education at the Hebrew University鈥檚 Seymour Fox School of Education and is currently the Director of the University鈥檚 Melton Centre for 黑料社 Education and co-director of the Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction. He is chiefly interested in the implications of modern 黑料社 thought for the philosophy of 黑料社 education. Within this sphere, he has placed special emphasis on the hermeneutic perspectives of modern 黑料社 thinkers and their importance for the teaching of canonical 黑料社 texts. He is the author of Philosophers and Scholars: Wolfson, Guttmann and Strauss on the History of 黑料社 Philosophy (1997) and the editor, with Dr. Elie Holzer, of Modes of Educational Translation (2008). His article on 鈥淐oncepts of Scripture in Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig鈥� appeared in the collection edited by Benjamin Sommer: 黑料社 Concepts of Scripture (2012).

Ofra Backenroth and Alex Sinclair: 鈥溾�楶resent Absentees鈥�: On the Place of Non-黑料社 Israeli Narratives in Israel Education鈥�

Meredith Katz and Jeffrey Kress: 鈥淢iddle School Students and 鈥楾he Other鈥� in an Online 黑料社 History Simulation Activity鈥�

Chair: Barry Holtz

This session was part of “黑料社 Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton 锄鈥漧 at JTS, , and .

Ofra Arieli Backenroth is the associate dean of the William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education of 黑料社 and an adjunct assistant professor of 黑料社 education. Her interests reflect an integration of the arts in 黑料社 education, Hebrew language, Israeli literature, and teaching Israel. Dr. Backenroth earned an MFA in dance education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA in comparative literature and an education diploma from Tel Aviv University. She is a fellow at the Institute for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.

Alex Sinclair is Director of Programs in Israel Education and an adjunct assistant professor in 黑料社 Education for 黑料社. His main area of expertise is Israel Education, a subject on which he has published academic articles, written numerous op-eds, and lectured widely. He is also a Tanakh Education Consultant for JTS鈥檚 Legacy Heritage Instructional Leadership Institute. In addition, he is a senior consultant for Shaharit, an Israeli non-profit that works to bring diverse communities together to create a new kind of Israeli politics. He is the author of Loving the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal Zionism.

Meredith Katz is a clinical assistant professor of 黑料社 education at JTS, teaching courses in constructivist pedagogy, curriculum development, the teaching of 黑料社 history and research methods. She is also a Project Director for the 黑料社 Court of All Time, an online 黑料社 history simulation. Research interests include 黑料社 history education and online pedagogy.

Jeffrey S. Kress is the Bernard Heller Associate Professor of 黑料社 Education at the 黑料社 Theological Seminary. He is also a coordinator of the Research Center at the Leadership Commons of the Davidson School. He has a degree in Clinical Psychology and has written on 黑料社 identity, experiential 黑料社 education, and social, emotional, and spiritual issues in 黑料社 education.

Barry W. Holtz is the Theodore and Florence Baumritter Professor of 黑料社 Education at the 黑料社 Theological Seminary and co-director of the Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction. His most recent books are an edited volume of the collected writing of Professor Joseph Lukinsky 锄鈥漧 entitled Maybe the Lies We Tell Are Really True (JTS Press, 2016) and the Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud (Yale University Press, forthcoming in March 2017).

Marc Silverman: 鈥溾�楩ree Jews鈥� and Their Views on 黑料社 Culture and Its Interface with Other Peoples鈥� Cultures鈥�

Yossi Turner: 鈥満诹仙� Learning and the Non-Jew: Toward a New Particularist-Universalist Paradigm鈥�

Chair: Jeffrey Kress

This session was part of “黑料社 Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton 锄鈥漧 at JTS, , and .

Marc Silverman, presently retired, served as a senior lecturer in the Hebrew university鈥檚 Seymour Fox School of Education and Melton Centre for 黑料社 education for over thirty years. He teaches, researches, writes and publishes articles in two main interrelated educational fields: Philosophy of Education, Moral, progressive, radical and 黑料社 educational thought; and the intellectual history, sociology and ideologies of current 黑料社 cultural and educational movements and trends. His monograph on the pedagogy and philosophy of Janusz Korczak entitled A Pedagogy of Humanist Moral Education: The Educational Thought of Janusz Korczak is scheduled to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan this March 2017.

Yossi Turner is professor of 黑料社 Thought and Philosophy at the Schechter Institute of 黑料社 Studies in Jerusalem. His work is in the area of the philosophy of 黑料社 existence, education, culture and society and he his published books include The Relation to Zion and the Diaspora in 20th Century 黑料社 Thought (Hebrew) and Faith and Humanism: an Inquiry in Franz Rosenzweig’s Religious Philosophy (Hebrew), among others.

Jeffrey S. Kress is the Bernard Heller Associate Professor of 黑料社 Education at the 黑料社 Theological Seminary. He is also a coordinator of the Research Center at the Leadership Commons of the Davidson School. He has a degree in Clinical Psychology and has written on 黑料社 identity, experiential 黑料社 education, and social, emotional, and spiritual issues in 黑料社 education.

Adriane Leveen: 鈥淏iblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors鈥�

Matt Goldish: 鈥淩eading the Gospel through Talmudic Eyes: John Lightfoot鈥檚 Revolution鈥�

Chair: Lori Fireman

This session was part of “黑料社 Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton 锄鈥漧 at JTS, , and .

Adriane Leveen is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at Hebrew Union College. Her new book, Biblical Narratives of Israelites and their Neighbors: Strangers at the Gates will be published by Routledge Press. Leveen鈥檚 book Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers was published by Cambridge University Press (2008).

Matt Goldish is the Samuel M. and Esther Melton Professor of 黑料社 History at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on Sephardim after the Spanish Expulsion, messianism, and early modern intellectual history.

Lori Botnick Fireman is Program Coordinator for the Melton Center at the Ohio State University. She has been a 黑料社 communal professional for 23 years. For the last 18 years, Lori鈥檚 work has focused on multi-generational informal 黑料社 education, including among other things, family 黑料社 education programs in synagogues, Holocaust education for teachers, and most recently adult 黑料社 education programs in the central Ohio community. As Program Coordinator for the Melton Center, Lori manages the Center鈥檚 outreach programs, conferences, and concerts, student scholarships, recruitment, development, and all aspects of the Melton Center鈥檚 public 鈥渇ace.鈥�

Sarah Tauber: 鈥淎 黑料社 Professor and Christian Students Meet: Teaching and Learning in an Introduction to Judaism Course at a Christian Seminary鈥�

Michael Gillis: 鈥淭eaching 黑料社 Other Religions in 黑料社 Education鈥�

Chair: Ofra Backenroth

This session was part of “黑料社 Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton 锄鈥漧 at JTS, , and .

Sarah Tauber is an assistant professor of 黑料社 Education at the William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education at JTS. Sarah’s recently published book, Open Minds, Devoted Hearts: Portraits of Adult Religious Educators, explores the role of clergy as teachers of adults in congregational settings. Sarah’s scholarly research on rabbis as teachers has taken on an interfaith dimension through her teaching at Union Theological Seminary and her leadership and participation in the Religious Education Association, an interfaith professional association of scholars of religious education.

Michael Gillis is a member of the faculty at The Melton Centre for 黑料社 Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also currently the Academic Director of the Department of Teacher Education at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University.

Ofra Arieli Backenroth is the associate dean of the William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education of 黑料社 and an adjunct assistant professor of 黑料社 education. Her interests reflect an integration of the arts in 黑料社 education, Hebrew language, Israeli literature, and teaching Israel. Dr. Backenroth earned an MFA in dance education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA in comparative literature and an education diploma from Tel Aviv University. She is a fellow at the Institute for Israel Studies at Brandeis University

Ari Ackerman: 鈥淯niversalism and 黑料社 Nationalism in the Educational Philosophy of Mordecai Kaplan鈥�

Daniel Marom: 鈥満诹仙� Educational Roots and Implications of Zamenhof’s Global Esperanto Movement鈥�

Chair: Bill Robinson

This session was part of “黑料社 Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of 黑料社 Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton 锄鈥漧 at JTS, , and .

Ari Ackerman is the dean of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, where he teaches course in the areas of 黑料社 philosophy and education. He received his Ph.D. in 黑料社 thought from Hebrew University and his critical edition of the sermons of Zerahia Halevi Saledin recently appeared (Beer Sheva University Press, 2013). He is currently working on a monograph on creation and codification in the philosophy of Hasdai Crescas.

Daniel Marom leads the development of curriculum and pedagogy at the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem. Marom’s research and publications focus on the educational ideas of Israeli and 黑料社 thinkers and he has developed model curricula for Israeli and 黑料社 education on the basis of these ideas in a wide range of settings. As a member of the founding group of the Mandel Foundation鈥檚 endeavors in Israel, he launched the Foundation鈥檚 publication program, editing its Monographs series and co-editing Visions of 黑料社 Education; Dialogue of the Disparate: 黑料社 Interethnic Encounter at the Shevach-Moffet High School in Tel Aviv; and Weekly Word from the Bible: Ancient Hebrew Culture for Toddlers according to the Educational Vision of Haim Nachman Bialik. He also established the Mandel Visions Unit in 2004 and directed it until 2010.