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Aug22010
Camp for Everyone: The blessings of Jewish camps for special-needs kids
August 2, 2010

Are you completely sick of me yammering about camp? Well, you’ll be glad to know that this is my last camp-related column of the summer. But while the others have been jokey, this one is anything but. Ezra Kress at camp in 2010. Photo by Jeffrey Kress Meet Ezra, the 12-year-old son of my friend… Read more...

Jul132010
Ramah Special Needs Program Celebrates 40 Years of Inclusion
July 13, 2010

Campers, families, counselors and others touched by Ramah’s Tikvah program for special needs youth converged Sunday at Camp Ramah New England to mark the groundbreaking initiative and four decades of impact. The Tikvah program, established at Camp Ramah New England in 1970, and now active… Read more...

Jul122010
Camp Ramah Marks 40 Years of Inclusion for Special Needs Campers
July 12, 2010

Avi Friedman Matthew Bander, left, of Brighton, is a former Tikvah camper who attended the 40th anniversary celebrations at Camp Ramah New England on Sunday. He is pictured with Emily Perlmutter, a friend of his and the program. PALMER, MA — Campers, families, counselors and others touched by… Read more...

Feb282010
Inauguration of the Jim Joseph Building
February 28, 2010

I am writing this at the close of a series of meetings with the Jim Joseph Fellows who are members of the fellowship program that I am heading up together with my colleague, Esther Feldman. The Fellows are educational leaders in a wide variety of venues who have been brought together as a group and… Read more...

Jan122010
Educators Going Viral
January 12, 2010

Jerusalem — Conference organizers usually frown on participants who Facebook, Tweet or Google during a seminar, but no one objected when some of the 14 participants in a new fellowship program for Jewish educators did just that during a lively lecture. Hand-picked for their expertise as educators… Read more...

Dec12009
Howard Blas Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
December 1, 2009

Congratulations to Westville Shul member Howard Blas who is one of fourteen individuals selected from over two hundred applicants for the new Jim Joseph Foundation fellowship program created at Bar-Ilan University. The fellowship seeks to identify, train and empower leading educators in both formal… Read more...

Sep92009
Two Connecticut educators tapped for new national fellowship
September 9, 2009

BRIDGEPORT - A new fellowship has been created by the Lookstein Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and the charter group of 14 participants includes two from Connecticut, Howard Blas and Ira Wise. The two educators were selected from a group of more than 200 applicants. The Bar-Ilan… Read more...

Jul32009
Howard Blas awarded prestigious Jim Joseph Foundation Fellowship
July 3, 2009

“Yasher Koach to Tikvah Director, Howard Blas, who has been chosen from among hundreds of nominees to be in the very first cohort of Jim Joseph Foundation Fellows. The Jim Joseph Foundation Fellows - Leading Educators Online is a new, prestigious, leading-edge fellowship program, funded by the… Read more...