Past Issues of the Journal of Jewish Communal Service: 2000 – Present
Most Recent Issue Available Online:
People of the Book, Community of Action: Exploring Jewish Service-Learning
Winter/Spring 2012. Volume 87, No. 1/2.
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction
From the Guest Editors: Jewish Service-Learning: A Foundation and a Future
Jon Rosenberg, Ilana Aisen, and Ruthie Warshenbrot
People of the Book, Community of Action: The Case for Jewish Service-Learning
Lisa Eisen, Adene Sacks, Jon Rosenberg
II. Background
Jewish Service-Learning: History and Landscape
Mordecai Walfish
Opening the Black Box: Lessons From Research on Immersive Jewish Service-Learning Programs for Young Adults
Fern Chertok, Joshua Tobias, Matthew Boxer, and Shirah Rosin
ABSTRACT: Jewish Service-Learning: Analysis and Caveats
Chaim Lauer
III. Major Trends in Jewish Service-Learning
From Service-Learning to Service-Activism: What Teach for America Can Teach the Jewish Service Movement
Aaron Dorfman
Dual Benefits, Dual Challenges: Integrating Community Impact and Participant Development in Jewish Service-Learning Experiences
Max Klau and Dana Talmi
A Judaism That Matters: Creating Integrated Service-Learning Communities
Lisa Exler and Rabbi Jill Jacobs
If We Build It, They Will Come: A Case for Developing the Field of Jewish Service-Learning in Israel
Dyonna Ginsburg
IV. The Impact of Jewish Service-Learning on Communities Served
Integrating Volunteers into Long-Term Sustainable Development
Micha Odenheimer
ABSTRACT: Complicating Revitalization: A Vision of a Just Detroit
Miriam Liebman and Blair Nosan
Shifting Service-Learning from Transactional to Relational: Best Practices in Working With Community Partners
Jamie Beran and Aleeza Lubin
V. The Impact of Jewish Service-Learning on Participants
Making Meaning: Emerging Adults and Service-Learning
Beth Cousens
Becoming a Servant: How James Kugel’s Conception of Avodat Hashem Can Help Us Think About Dispositional Goals of Jewish Service-Learning
Jon A. Levisohn
How To Turn a Year of Service Into a Lifetime of Commitment: A Case Study of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
Stephanie Ruskay
ABSTRACT: Alternative Break Fellowship: Maximizing the Impact of Immersion Experiences
Michelle Lackie and Amy Weiss
In the Family: The Intrinsic Impact of Serving Other Jews
Sarah Eisenman
ABSTRACT: Jerusalem: A Classroom for Jewish Service Learning
Lisa Barkan
VI. Effective Jewish Service-Learning Pedagogy
Jewish Service-Learning: A Conceptual Framework
Simon Klarfeld
ABSTRACT: Havu Livenim – ( Carry the Bricks ): A New Paradigm for Manual Labor and Jewish Experience
Jordan Namerow and Ruth Messinger
ABSTRACT: Personal Connections as a Foundation of Service Work: Social Networking That Makes a Difference
Shimshon Stüart Siegel, with Rabbi Bradley Solmsen
Professional Development for Jewish Service-Learning Professionals: The Certificate of Completion Model
Jennifer Mangel
ABSTRACT: Preparing Service-Learning Professionals: Lessons from Training Experiential Educators
Mark S. Young and Jeffrey S. Kress
Don’t Sell Them Short: From Understanding Injustice to Activism
Irene Lehrer Sandalow and Asaf Bar-Tura
ABSTRACT: Strengthening Mentorship in Jewish Service-Learning Settings
Erica Hymen
VII. Jewish Service-Learning in Higher Education
Jewish Studies and Service-Learning in Higher Education: What Each Can Gain From the Other
Dan W. Butin and Noam Pianko
Jewish Service-Learning Partnerships Between Hillel and the Public University: A Case Study
Jody Myers and Renée Cohen Goodwin
VIII. Youth Voice and Jewish Service-Learning
Turning up the Volume: A Call for More Youth Voice in Jewish Service-Learning
Lawrence Neal Bailis and Susan Shevitz
Getting Comfortably Uncomfortable: Youth Perspectives on Community Service from the Ma’yan Research Training Interns
Beth Cooper Benjamin with Alex Cohen, Emma Goldberg, Alice Kallman, Carolyn Kettig, and Leah Shwartz
Expanding the Definition of Service and Amplifying Youth Voice
Nahma Nadich
ABSTRACT: Young Jews Learning to Serve and Lead: Organizing Jewish Teens in Boston
Meir Lakein, Ilana Lerman, Beth Reisfeld, Dan Gelbtuch, and Chris Messenger
IX. The Impact of Jewish Service-Learning on the Jewish Community and Our Communal Institutions
Successful Components to Transforming a Synagogue Into and Agency of Service
Sandy Rechtschaffer
ABSTRACT: Becoming a Community of Service: What Worked in San Francisco Bay Area
Jennifer Leorah Mangel and Mara Kassoff
Service-Learning and Jewish Baby Boomers: An Emerging Opportunity or a Best-Missed Chance?
David M. Elcott and Stuart Himmelfarb
X. Reflections from the Field of Jewish Communal Service
From Tea Party to J Street: Jews and American Politics: Understanding the Changing Landscape of the Jewish Vote
Steven Windmueller
Social Work and The Jewish Community: Renewing the Partnership
Barry Rosenberg
Past Issues:
Volume 83, No. 2-3: Winter/Spring 2008
Celebrating 50 Years of Education and Service
Volume 83, No. 1: Fall 2007
Jewish Vocational Services: Building Skills, Improving Lives, & Strengthening Communities.
Volume 82, Issue 1-2: Winter/Spring 2007
Jewish Family Services: New Models for New Millennium
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Volume 81, Issue 3-4: Spring/Summer 2006
Addressing the Quality of Jewish Aging Services
Full Table of Contents
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Recruitment & Retention: Imperatives for Jewish Communal Leadership
Recognizing Shoshana S. Cardin: An Exceptional Volunteer Leader
Full Table of Contents
Volume 80, Issue 1: Winter 2004
A Tribute to Darrell D. Friedman: Making a Difference in Professional Leadership
Full Table of Contents
World Council of Jewish Communal Service: Quadrennial, 12-16 November, 2003, Jerusalem
Full Table of Contents
Volume 79, Issue 1, Fall 2002
Stephen D. Solender: A Career in Jewish Communal Service
Full Table of Contents
Volume 78, Issue 4, Summer 2002
United Jewish Communities General Assembly
Full Table of Contents
Redeeming the Captive: Initiatives, Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Delivery of Vocational Resettlement Services to Jewish Emigres from the Former Soviet Union.
Cumulative Index 1982-2001
Full Table of Contents
Volume 78, Issue 1, Fall 2001
Recruitment and Retention: Imperatives for the Field of Jewish Communal Service
Full Table of Contents
Volume 77, Issue 3/4, Spring/Summer 2001
JCSA Teleconference–2001. Gender Equality in Jewish Communal Service: Toward a National Action Agenda
Full Table of Contents
Volume 77, Issue 2, Winter 2000
Looking Forward: Our Three-Pronged Challenge and Opportunity
Full Table of Contents
Volume 77, Issue 1, Fall 2000
Setting Standards for Volunteer Leadership and the Profession: A Dialogue
Full Table of Contents
Volume 76, Issue 4, Summer 2000
Truth, Tradition, and Respect: A New View of Informal Jewish Education
Full Table of Contents
Volume 76, Issue 3, Spring 2000
Past Achievements and New Challenges: JCSA in the New Millennium
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