Howard is a tenured faculty member at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University and its former director (2002-2008). He is the current academic director of the Legacy Heritage Teacher Institute that trains outstanding Jewish Studies teachers. From 1996-2001 he served as director of the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows Program in Jerusalem. He has published numerous articles, co-edited four books, and produced five teaching guides that are being used in schools in Israel and around the Jewish world. Dr. Deitcher is a member of the Israeli Ministry of Education's Committee on Teaching Bible in National Schools, and is part of a team that is preparing a new student book and teacher's guide for teaching Bible in Israeli schools. He is a member of the Executive Board at the Israel Centre for Philosophy in Education and Philosophy for Children. He is married to Dr. Chane Mamlak-Deitcher, a Jungian psychoanalyst. They have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
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Melton Provides
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Our top-notch library of Melton curriculum
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Personalized support, professional development, and a network of colleagues
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Marketing tools including a customized web page to recruit and register your learners
Your Role
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Select and oversee local faculty
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Host several cohorts of local learning annually
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Provide a part-time local coordinator
Community Benefits
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A stronger culture of Jewish learning
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Learners join or become more active in your community
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Community members connect across differences
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Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Melton has been transformative for our adult learning community, drawing on an entirely new group of adult students and transforming them into lifelong learners. We have found that engagement with Melton has also translated to greater engagement in Jewish life as well.
Rabbi David Glickman
I can speak from my personal experience… that shuls benefit from this partnership as well. Much of our community’s synagogue and Federation leadership are Melton alumni, and our shul’s alumni have been catalysts for us to continually improve our adult education offerings.
Rabbi David Woznica
If you care about the future of American Jewish life, if you care that Jews are educated and fall in love with Judaism, you’ll care about having a successful, passionate, thriving Florence Melton School.
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