Leading the Communal Commitment and Mobilization for Excellence in Jewish Education Achieving excellence in Jewish education requires that we reach and teach Jews in new places, with new methods, and with enriched content. This internal drive for excellence is fostering heightened collaboration between the agency's expert staff and volunteer leaders. This is a moment of great opportunity. The desire for excellence in Jewish education has never been greater. The Jewish world is seeking pathways to positive change.
Educational leaders have a mandate to respond.
There is no hope of achieving excellence in Jewish education without sound knowledge to guide us. Its reports provide the educational community with basic information about enrollments, finances, policies, and trends. The revolution in communications technologies has changed teaching and learning in profound and permanent ways. Beginning with the establishment a decade ago of the Jewish Media and Resource Network, the agency has been an advocate and support for educators seeking to incorporate computers, the Internet, film, television and video into their work. According to Jewish tradition, the true guardians of any community are its teachers.