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About the Journal

Journal of Jewish Communal Service

JPRO publishes the Journal of Jewish Communal Service, now celebrating over 89 years of continuous publication. The Journal’s articles are an excellent retrospective of the issues and concerns the Jewish community has faced during these decades.

But more than “just” an historical treasure chest, this is the journal of record and authority for Jewish communal leaders and documents the development of new trends and methodologies which enhance our work. The Journal is often used in university classrooms and for lay and professional seminars.

Order here — online subscription or download an order form. (PDF Print Version)

If you want to order a specific volume, please contact info@jpro.org

Submissions:

If you would like to submit an article for peer review for possible publication in a forthcoming issue of the Journal, please read our submission guidelines.

 

Most Recent Journal:djs_jjcs_88_1_cover.indd
Big Ideas. Bold Solutions
Winter/Spring 2013. Volume 88, No. 1/2.

Table of Contents:

I. Introduction

Letter from JCSA
Susan L. Shevitz

II. Changing Workplace and Workforce

Toward Transparency
Mordecai Walfish, Avi Herring, Justin Rosen Smolen, Tamar Snyder, Ruthie Warshenbrot, and Naomi Korb WeissCover Art

The $54,000 Strategy: A Bold Solution to Undervaluing our Jewish Professionals
Mark Young

Incorporating Sustainability Into Jewish Communal Organizations Through Dedicated Staff
Aleeza Oshry

Consumers and Stakeholders
Erica Brown

Big Ideas, Bold Solutions for JPRO
Charles Edelsberg

III. TechnologyConverted Cover

From Programs to Platforms
Lisa Colton, Bill Robinson, and Miriam Brosseau

Network Weavers
Deborah Fishman

Training Educators to Use Technology in the Jewish Classroom
Hana Bor

IV. Community Structure

Re-envisioning Aging through Asset Building and Collaboration
Renee Dain and Michael Hoffmanjjcs_85_2_cover.indd

The Foundation for the Jewish People
Stephen G. Donshik

Community Renewal After Disaster
Michael J. Weil

A Family Engagement Community of Practice
Naava Frank and Lara Nicolson

Jewish Organizations Fight Climate Change
Mirele B. Goldsmith, J.R. RIch, and Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield

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V. Data and Evaluation

Estimating the Jewish Student Population of a College Campus
Harriet Hartman and Ira M. Sheskin

The Protective Factors for Maintaining Independence ©
Jordan Golin and Jeffrey D. Freedman

“AAA” Guide to Developing and Using Knowledge to Drive Jewish Communal Policy
Leonard Saxe and Fern Chertok

VI. Jewish Identity and Peoplehood

Living Lives of Sacred ResponsibilityJFNCover1
John S. Ruskay

Judaism and the Singularity
Paul Golin

VII. Innovation and Community Services

Innovation and the Jewish Family Services Network
Lee Sherman and Lisa Kahn Budlow

Spiritual Programming for Seniors in Geriatric Centers
Rabbi Michael Wolff

VIII. Madrichim NarrativesJJCS85n1_cover

Make Our Garden Grow: Building Leadership Ecosystems
Rabbi Marc Baker

Inspiration. Cultivation. Reverberation: Training Community Leaders to Change the Game
Rabbi Sharon Brous

Working in a Relational Way
Charles Edelsberg

Introducing More Jewish Human Beings to the Conversation in Word and Deed About the Covenant
Arnold M. Eisen

Catalyzing Systematic Change in Jewish Life
Lisa Eisen

Education Everywhere
Ari Y. Kelman

Sabbaticals: Formalized Renewal
Rachel Levin

Engaging New Talent To Lead Change for the Next Jewish Community
Larry Moses

Shedding Light on Jewish Education
Lee S. Shulman

Prerequisites for the Next Big Idea
Jeffrey Solomon

 

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The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

Marge Piercy, Circles on the Water, 1982.
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