Growing Jewish Minds, Growing Jewish Souls: Promoting Spiritual, Social, and Emotional Growth in Jewish Education

by Jeffrey S. Kress

Book Overview

What is the goal of Jewish education? Is it to fill students' brains with Jewish knowledge? Or is it to fill their hearts and souls with Jewish values?

Jewish educators across the denominational spectrum envision not just a student possessing a particular body of knowledge, but a type of person with particular traits and proclivities, a person grounded in, and engaged with, his or her community and society, whose actions are guided not by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807411698
• ISBN13: 9780807411698
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"