Laura and Alvin
Siegal College
of Judaic Studies

Intensive Tracks of Study

Moreh L'Morim Conference

Intensive tracks of study are a way to maximize your time at Moreh L’Morim.
Intensive tracks are a series of connected sessions exploring an important issue in depth. Each learning experience builds on the one before, guiding participants through a rich and meaningful discovery with master teachers. The intensives are offered for only part of each day of the conference, leaving the rest of the time free to choose from the multitude of other workshop options.

The schedule for the Intensives is:
Sunday 3:30pm-5:00pm
Monday 9:30am-12:00pm
Tuesday 9:30am-12:00pm
Wednesday 9:30am-11:00am

Developing Families and Communities that Love Torah: Tools and Signposts for the Journey

Joel Grishaver and Rabbi Phil Warmflash from the Consortium for the Jewish Family
How do you make learning Torah a family process and build a community that studies? How does one move closer to the reality of la’asok b’divrei Torah—full engagement with Jewish learning—when families are often tentative and even intimidated by Jewish learning?

The Biblical Conversation: Within Tanakh and Across the Ages

In everyday life, we are always making conversation. So too is the Hebrew Bible. The conversations are sometimes subtle and hard to track but the educator who can move beyond the first glance simplicity of a given text and hear the different voices within and surrounding the text has an opportunity to open up the world of eilu v’eilu even within the Biblical text. When the conversation is further enriched by midrashic exegesis the color, textures, and meanings of the text become even more vivid.

Active Jewish Learning: Strategies to Enliven Your Classroom

This track provides an opportunity for educators to expand their repertoire of techniques and approaches to fully engage students in Jewish learning. By design, the track is very participatory and addresses four challenges of Jewish learning.

Hebrew Through Total Physical Response (TPR)

Dr. Lifsa Schachter has adapted James Asher’s book Learning Another Language Through Actions and applied it to teaching Hebrew to young children to 5th grade.

An increasing number of Jewish parents and educators are alert to the importance of the Hebrew language as a key to building a strong Jewish identity. Research on the brain and the learning to read process highlights the importance of oral experience with language as a foundation for learning to make sense of the printed symbol. It also highlights the need to use methods that can help children learn Hebrew more effectively and more joyfully.

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