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Your donation will be tax deductible in the US to the extent allowed by the IRS.
To make a tax-deductible donation by wire transfer in the US, please contact:
Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
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Dina Gudai, Israeli Representative
Phone: 074-7800643
Email: dina@schechter.ac.il
Please mail your check to:
The Schechter Institutes, Inc. (a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization)
Box #3566
PO Box 8500
Philadelphia, PA 19178-3566
Attn: Mr. Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
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Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
Please indicate the donation is "for your joint Schechter Institutes program."
Checks should be made payable to the Jewish Theological Society of Canada and mailed to:
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
c/o Camp Ramah in Canada
3845 Bathhurst St., Suite 310
Toronto, ON, M3H 3N2
Phone: 416-789-2193, ext. 2139
E-mail: accounting@campramah.com
Please mail a check to:
The Schechter Institutes
Attn: Dina Gudai, Finance Department
PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
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16/06/2024
Dr. Marva Shalev-Marom, the Golinkin Chair in TALI Jewish Education at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, has been awarded Article of Year Award for 2023 (shared) for her article, “Eat, Pray, Wait: The Informal Jewish Education of Ethiopian Youth Awaiting Aliyah,” published in the Journal of Jewish Education.
The Journal of Jewish Education referees consider Dr. Shalev-Marom’s article, along with co-winner Esther Friedman for “Gray Matters in Institutional Ideology,” “written beautifully, addressed issues in fresh and interesting ways, used creative methodologies and taught all of us something new.” The four judges put those two articles in “our top three.” The articles, “were thoughtfully reflective, as well as being robust in their content and structure.”
Dr. Shalev-Marom’s article vividly describes youth in Gondar, Ethiopia waiting for the opportunity to make Aliya to Israel. She shows how Jewish informal education keeps Jewish Ethiopian refugees’ dreams of Jerusalem alive at the Tikvah summer camp in Gondar, Ethiopia while simultaneously reinforcing Israeli gatekeeping practices.
She portrays how the ethnic and religious ideologies underlying Israeli nation-building and statecraft surface in the campers’ exterritorial encounter with Israel’s vision of an “ideal” Jew. Her collaborative, community-based approach provides a holistic representation of Tikvah as a world suspended between Israeli socialization and informal Jewish education, exposing the distance between the diverse traditions and identities of Jews across the world and Israel’s reconfiguration of what it means to be a “Jew.”
“I learned a great deal from my students about what it means to be a Jew in Ethiopia and in Israel. I was privileged to hear echoes of the ancient tradition that brought them all the way to Israel and of their heroic journey through the desert. But in Israel, they found a distortion of not only their Judaism but of Jerusalem and lifestyles. It is a great honor for my article to be one of the best articles printed in the Journal of Jewish Education and I will use my expertise to assist the dreams of Ethiopian Jewry become a reality in Israel.”
Prof. Ari Ackerman, President of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem notes, “Dr. Shalev-Marom is a young scholar bringing a special brand of research and writing into academia. Schechter is proud that her scholarship is receiving recognition from her peers.”
Dr. Shalev-Marom’s article is available free for three months to the general public via the Journal of Jewish Education’s website.
LINK: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15244113.2023.2242516?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Dr. Marva Shalev Marom, an educational innovator, researches communal educational projects and initiatives among various populations in and outside of Israel. Dr. Shalev Marom is the academic director of the YAMAH M.A. Community Leadership Program, which trains educators in creating innovative pedagogies for studying Judaism via encounters between Jewish sources and education. She obtained her PhD. from Stanford University and writes music, plays the Sitar and guitar, and received her M.A. on mystical scripture in Hebrew and Sanskrit from Tel Aviv University.
image: Jerusalem Ethiopian Jews Memorial (by Djampa)
