I read Ziva Hassenfled’s piece in eJP (Nov. 10, 2021) with great interest. The idea of remaking the Jewish education model should in fact be a much higher priority in the funding marketplace. To give a very brief context, what we think of as part-time Jewish education, traditionally called Hebrew school, was started as a kind of answer to the traditional Christian Sunday school, largely credited by Rebecca Graetz of Philadelphia, a devout Jew and philanthropist who wanted Jewish children raised in non-Orthodox households to have a grounding in Jewish history and traditions. In 1818, on her birthday, the first...
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