This page offers links that are certain to help the Jewish Educator when it comes to designing or enhancing educational materials or curriculum.


Websites

Chinuch.org Enables Mechanchim and Mechanchos worldwide to share quality educational ideas and materials.

The Jerusalem Kollel Online Classes Includes: 100’s of PDF’s, audio, video, and source sheets from Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits.

Rabbi Dr. Dovid Gottlieb Rabbi Gottlieb addresses a broad range of philosophical and ethical issues in Judaism. The site includes audio downloads, books, and lecture outlines.

Rabbi Akiva Tatz, MD Rabbi Tatz teaches classes and writes books on Jewish thought and medical ethics. The site features video, audio, and books.

The Olami Morasha Syllabus The Olami Morasha Syllabus is a full curriculum of source materials and complete classes on 130 of the most relevant subjects for Jewish students, available in English, FrenchSpanishHebrewPortuguese, and Russian.

Olami Thinking Gemara Series

Learning Gemara with newcomers to Judaism is a vital step to help empower them to become active participants in the Mesorah. The Thinking Gemara Series can assist rabbis, educators and outreach professionals to engage students with little Jewish background in Gemara study.

Smartboards in Jewish Education
How schools can integrate smartboards based on the successful model of the Donna Klein Jewish Academy in Boca Raton, FL.

Sefaria
This site features major texts such as Tanach, Mishna, Talmud, Midrash (some in English, some in Hebrew). Visitors to the site are asked to add any commentaries or other connected sources to each existing source and can seamlessly build their own clean looking source sheets.

Pirchei Shoshanim
Pirchei Shoshanim provides free innovative educational materials. Also offers a full series of illustrated lessons on subjects such as Shmiras HaLashon, Halachos of Shabbos; the halachos of day-to-day activities, from Modeh Ani to the bedtime Shema; parshah sheets and a complete picture series of Pirkei Avos. Plus, Educators can also discuss questions and problems in an international forum.

Shema Yisrael Torah Network
Educational resources include online children’s books, links to Shema Yisrael Torah Network Teacher’s Exchange, and other interactive resources.

Rabbi Ullman: Jewish Mysticism Source Sheets
Ullman provides well-researched classes on topics such as dreams, reincarnation, ghosts, magic and more!

Educational Resources of the Lookstein Center
The Lookstein Center provides instructional resources, training, and support to help Jewish educators learn, teach, and lead.

Articles

Engaging Jewish Teenage Boys: A Call to Action
The Jewish community is losing boys who drop out of Jewish life after bar mitzvah in unacceptably large numbers. Jewish institutions are struggling to keep teenage boys engaged. Left unaddressed, the trend threatens to undermine the Jewish future and leave a generation of boys ignorant of the wisdom, core values, community, and spiritual nourishment Judaism provides. This report draws on knowledge distilled from three years of research, focus groups with Jewish boys, and program development.