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educators were chosen to take part in the yearlong
program. Bina calls the participants “the cream of
the crop, with the commitment and passion needed
to take their year spent here in the heart of the Jew-
ish world back home to their classroom, their school
and by extension the whole community.”
To provide more incentive, Eshkolot partici-
pants who commit to teaching at least two years in
North America qualify for a scholarship and sti-
pend to help cover the expenses of taking a year off
and living in Israel for the program. They also have
the option to earn a master’s degree from Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.

Last September, this pioneering group of Esh-
kolot scholars embarked on a rigorous schedule
of coursework in Bible, with Talmud and Jewish
law in the mix, along with an immersion in edu-
cational strategies designed to transmit the power
of this material to their students back home in the
diaspora. It’s a process that Jonathan Sarna, the renowned
professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis
University, describes as “part of a movement toward
reinvigorating the study of Tanakh (Torah, Proph-
ets and Writings).”
“Jewish education in the diaspora suffers from a
“Jewish education in the disaspora
suffers from a remoteness from our
story, so this program exports some
its excitement to help transform
Jewish education there.”
JONATHAN SARNA
remoteness from our story, so this program exports
some of its excitement to help transform Jew-
ish education there,” said Sarna, who is currently
spending the year in Jerusalem doing research at
the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies. “It goes
beyond knowing the words and the storyline to a
deeper appreciation of why the Bible is so important
to Jews, something you can truly feel when you’re
learning it here.”
“There’s nothing like learning Torah in Israel,”
Eshkolot participant Miriam Borenstein said. “You
go on a tiyul (field trip) and see the place where
[the prophet] Joshua led the Jews across the Jordan
and you think, ‘We just learned about that in class.’
You see street signs with the names of rabbis we’re
studying. You hear snatches of Hebrew in the stores.

You’re immersed.”
Borenstein, 29, this week met with her super-
visor, Chaya Batya Neugroschl, head of school at




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