News and Publications
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
CIJE Math Olympiad Challenges Math Students
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Israeli Sci-Tech Curriculum Coming To NY Day Schools
Thursday, June 02, 2011
YDT Takes The Gold With Shabbos Wheelchair Lift
Friday, May 27, 2011
JEC students win Gildor science contest
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Thanks to CIJE- Reuben Gittelman Hebrew Day School Students Win at Local & County Science Fair
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Day Schools Get Cash, Tech Infusion
Two major investments include multimillion-dollar federation endowment, high-tech science ed partnership with Israel.
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Thursday, April 07, 2011
Representative of Israel's Education Ministry Impressed by CIJE Schools
Judy Lebovits , Director and Vice President of CIJE, was privileged to host Dr. Moshe Dekalo of the Israel Dept. of Education ,Dr. Moshe Dekalo, and Sima Hadad on their visits to SAR Academy and Yeshiva Har Torah. Both Dr. Dekalo and Ms. Hadad were extremely impressed with the schools and especially the CIJE programs being implemented at the schools.
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Monday, April 04, 2011
CIJE Technology Contest Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the CIJE Technology for Schools Contest.
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Friday, April 01, 2011
E2K Students Successfully Solve Alphametrics Math Riddle
Each school year E2K students are presented with four riddles.The third riddle, "Alphametrics" was written by Jason Matthew Lai. Jason is associated with the Gifted Education Branch of the Singapore Ministry of Education.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
CIJE: Enhancing Jewish Education
Universally, Jewish leaders agree that the only way to ensure a vibrant Jewish future is to give children a Jewish education; the most impactful being a day school education. In the last five years, however, Jewish day school enrollment has stagnated and begun to decline. Three years ago CIJE was created to address this crisis head-on and hands-on. This nonprofit is on a noble mission-to provide as many Jewish day schools as possible with Smart Boards, reading- and math-focused technology, learning labs, elementary school science labs, Tal Am Cal Hebrew language curricula, and high school science and engineering programs. In addition, CIJE aims to educate the schools on how best to utilize these programs to enhance the quality of Jewish education and make the Jewish day schools attractive to Jewish families.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Grant contest will award Jewish day schools new classroom technology
Jewish day schools in the Los Angeles area have until April 1 to take part in a unique contest that will award grants of up to $25,000 for cutting-edge classroom technology and programs.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Math Olympiad for Yeshiva Boys
A lively and educational Math Olympiad for Yeshiva boys was hosted by Yeshiva Darchei Torah on Sunday, December 12, 2010. Sixth, seventh and eighth grade boys from Yeshiva Toras Chaim of South Shore, Yeshivat Shaare Torah Boys, Yeshiva Derech HaTorah and Yeshiva Darchei Torah participated in this competition.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Gold Standard in Yeshiva Education
"I am so proud to watch the progress of the students at Shaare Torah, "remarked Mrs. Judy Lebowitz, Educational Director of Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE). "The school has taken advantage of every educational program that the Center of Jewish Initiatives has to offer in building a better future for its students." And the effort has paid off, as Mrs. Lebowitz points out. "Most recently, Shaare Torah scored second place for 6th and 7th grade in the Math Olympiad Competition."
A new state of the art science lab, courtesy of the CIJE, is helping students develop their investigative skills in a very concrete way. Classes throughout the schools are creating roller coasters, model skeletons, observing cell structure, and participating in many other hands-on experiments.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
The Gildor Family Projects and Inventions
Several CIJE schools participated in the Gildor competition. Each team created a device for
recycling grey water for agricultural purposes.
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011
CIJE Science Lab at JEC Bears Fruit
Neshama Fournier of West Orange and Sarah Brown of Elizabeth, won second place in the Liberty Science Center's first Student Inventors Day, back in November, with the invention they dubbed Sci-Fizz.
The JEC duo developed Sci-Fizz with guidance from Joel Javitt, the yeshiva's part-time science laboratory instructor and a JEC parent himself. His full-time job is as supervisor of science and engineering projects with the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education, which sponsored the competition project and is a major backer of the JEC's overall science program.
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Friday, December 24, 2010
All For The Children
Yeshiva of Flatbush recognizes CIJE.
See article on pages 14-15
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Rep. Holt Inaugurates Schools Computer lab
"What CIJE has done in the Jewish day school environment is nothing short of amazing," headmaster Rabbi Moshe Bak told NJJN. "Through their generosity and technological expertise, they are strengthening general studies of Jewish day schools across the country."
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
JEC Team Reaches Competition Finals
The Israeli-based Gildor Project for Excellence in Science has announced that the team from the Jewish Educational Center's Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy in Elizabeth, NJ has qualified to take part in the final round of its 2010 competition.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Global learning at Schechter and Moriah
Both at Schechter and Moriah, the students participate in an after-school science and math enrichment program. "Everybody gets something out of it," said Linda Goldberg, math and science coordinator at CIJE. "Everybody who participates is a winner," she said.
CIJE works with some 70 schools in the U.S., involving 21,000 students, said director Judy Lebovits. The program is for highly motivated youngsters seeking challenges beyond the regular curriculum.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
SMART Board Users Conference
On Sunday, February 21, 2010, more than 150 educators from Jewish Day schools participated in a SMART Board Users Conference. More than 20 concurrent sessions were presented. Participants enjoyed learning specific techniques for their grade level and subject area. Read more for a list of schools that participated.
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
The Gildor Family Projects and Inventions
In an effort to stave off the water crisis facing the state of Israel, methods for creating potable water are being worked on by some of the brightest, and youngest minds in the Jewish state. JKHA and RKHA of Livingston took second place overall.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Yeshiva Students SNAG Prizes in Science Tourney
Using a bicycle, a pump, and the principles of reverse osmosis, a team of eighth and ninth graders at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston put together a portable desalination device that runs on green energy.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Darchei Torah Team Participates in Prestigious Science Competition
The project has provided a unique challenge to the boys. There is no substitute for the experience gained and skills learned while developing a sense of innovation, incorporating scientific principles, and engaging in teamwork.
"Whether we're winning or losing [the competition], there's a tremendous amount gained by the boys from the process," Rabbi Goldberg emphasizes, "both in their own personal development, in terms of gaining self-confidence, and in terms of their academically and educationally [reaching] places they never thought they could reach."
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Something To Celebrate In Day-School Education
I am at times astounded by the number of school visits made by Jason Cury and Joel Beritz, Gruss's top officials, and by the staff of the foundation's critical new offshoot, the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education, ably directed by Mrs. Judy Lebovits.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Solomon Schechter School Gets Classrooms Of Future
Educators are often confronted with the question, "What will the classroom of the future look like?" While this might be an unknown, at Solomon Schechter School of Queens (S.S.S.Q.), the classroom of the 21st century has arrived.
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