Written by Micha Levin (PCJE ’07-’09, Summer ’10, ’11) – At his last appearance at Kehillah Jewish High School before his death, San Francisco Jewish philanthropist Warren Hellman quoted New York Jewish philanthropist Michael Steinhardt: “Day school education has failed.” I was a highly dedicated Jewish studies teacher at the time and was shocked by this. Since then, however, my continued journey to provide relevance in the Jewish studies classroom, and watching my kids go through Bay Area day schools, showed me why Steinhardt was right, and one approach to address it. In 2009, I started teaching at Kehillah High in Palo Alto, after seven years of learning Torah in Israel, including a master’s in Jewish education from the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.
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