Inside Jewish Day Schools – Leadership, Learning, and Community

Alex Pomson is principal and managing director of Rosov Consulting Israel. He is coauthor of Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home as well as coeditor of Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities: A Reconsideration, and the International Handbook of Jewish Education. Jack Wertheimer is the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Wertheimer is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape, also published by Brandeis University Press.  

Introduction
Part I: Lower and Middle Schools
1. Progressively Maintaining the Middle—Hillel Torah, Skokie, IL
2. A Forward-Looking Community School—Hillel Day School, Detroit
3. The School as a “Gateway” —Brandeis Marin, California
4. Nurturing Students’ Reflectiveness and Wellness—The Pressman Academy, Los Angeles
5. Doing More with Less—Akiva, Nashville

Part II: High Schools
6. Re-centering the Centrist Orthodox Day School—The Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy, Elizabeth, NJ
7. It’s All in a Name—Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto

Part III: K-12 Schools
8. How a Day School Transforms Itself—Hebrew Academy (RASG), Miami Beach, Florida
9. The Yeshiva as Teiva (a protective ark)—Darchei Torah, Far Rockaway, NY

Conclusion
Appendix: Day School Sectors by the Numbers
Glossary of Terms