NewCAJE17: 50th Anniversary: Full Schedule

2:00pm EDT

All My Values Come from the Movies (and streaming and binging...)

Sunday July 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

What can Ryan Gosling, Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba and Jenna Ortega teach our teens about Jewish Values? A lot when they star in a popular film or series...and then YOU help them unpack what is on the screen! We will explore how to bring clips from current releases and classics and make your classes come alive. This session comes with a three year warranty!

Speakers

Ira Wise

Ira currently serves as Temple Educator at Temple Beth Tikvah, a Reform congregation in Madison, CT, and has served as a mentor for other synagogue educators through the Leadership Institute, HUC-JIR and Beit T'shuvah. He has attended and presented at CAJE and NewCAJE off and on... Read More →

Sunday July 26, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
College Hall Rm 237

Teaching Tools and Techniques, Teens/Youth Engagement

Company Spirituality/Tefilah
Audience Middle School, High School, Adult Students, Teachers, Principals
Type Main

4:45pm EDT

Generational Dialogue on Jewish Education

Sunday July 26, 2026 4:45pm - 6:15pm EDT

College Hall Rm 237

This session is meant to be a dialogue among people who have been in the field of Jewish education for a long time or are retired and people who are in earlier stages of their careers.. A new, talented generation of educators will share their successes and their concerns and the older generation will share the most important things they've learned along the way and what sage advice they might give. We will discuss how things have changed over the years and how they haven't. Maybe we can help each other?

Speakers

Marcia Wollner

regional director, March of. the Living, Western Region

Marcia Tatz Wollner is the Western Region Director of the March of the Living. Living in San Diego, she teaches Holocaust education in many congregational schools. She is the former school services director of the Agency for Jewish Education. She holds a masters in Jewish Studies... Read More →

Cherie Koller-Fox

NewCAJE

Rabbi Cherie Koller-Fox is well known in the Boston area and beyond. She was ordained by the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York which is a pluralistic Jewish seminary. She has served as rabbi at Congregation Eitz Chayim in Cambridge, Temple Emanuel of Marlborough, Newton-Wellesley... Read More →

Sunday July 26, 2026 4:45pm - 6:15pm EDT
College Hall Rm 237

Big Picture of Jewish Education, Jewish Life & Identity

NewCAJE17: 50th Anniversary

2:00pm EDT

Ira Wise

4:45pm EDT

Marcia Wollner

Cherie Koller-Fox

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