Kranjec Test News Today

About three and half years ago, a group of talented educators from the Hillel network proposed a new frame through which educators can view their role in facilitating engagement with Jewish texts (“The Kranjec Test,” eJewishPhilanthropy Sept. 12, 2020).  “Source...

The 'radically inclusive' Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announces the addition amid a larger conversation about Jewish marginalization in the industry

Amid controversy over an Academy museum, Jews are questioning their representation on and off the screen.

Amid controversy over an Academy of Motion Pictures museum, Jews are questioning their representation on and off the screen.

This article provides an analysis of Chasidism through a feminist lens - not to reject it but rather to acknowledge problematic elements and create exciting opportunities to elevate an already profound form of Judaism.

Many of my fellow rabbinical students and friends are enthusiastic about a new strategy for elevating women’s voices in Torah study into the beit midrash this fall. Danielle Kranjec The Kranjec Test — named for Danielle Kranjec, the Jewish educator who created it — holds that collections of texts known as source sheets used in Jewish learning must include at least one non-male voice. It’s the Jewish studies equivalent of the well-known Bechdel Test for film, in which movies pass if t...

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I resisted the call to include non-male voices every time I taught Torah. Then I tried it. December 30, 2020 5:13 pm A Jewish woman holding a Jewish Tanakh, which includes the books of the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings. (Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — Many of my fellow rabbinical students and friends are enthusiastic about a new strategy for elevating women’s voices in Torah study into the beit midrash this fall. The K...

28 shares Rabbanit Jenna Englender dances with the Torah during her graduation ceremony from Yeshivat Maharat in New York, June 17, 2019. (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Maharat/via JTA) JTA — When Danielle Kranjec committed to using only Jewish texts written by women and queer people in the classes she taught for Hillel International’s Springboard Fellowship, a program that places recent college graduates in positions at college campus Hillels across the country, she knew she was taking on ...

When Danielle Kranjec committed to using only Jewish texts written by women and queer people in the classes she taught for Hillel International’s Springboard Fellowship, a program that places recent college graduates in positions at college campus Hillels across the country, she knew she was taking on a challenging task. After all, for most of Jewish history, women weren’t encouraged to take on religious leadership roles or write commentaries on the Torah or Talmud. But Kranjec knew that el...