Dissertation by Joshua S Ladon
Peer Reviewed Articles by Joshua S Ladon
Journal of Jewish Education, 2021
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Jewish adult education programs transitioned from in-p... more As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Jewish adult education programs transitioned from in-person learning to synchronous webcast classes. This move creates new questions about the practice of teaching Jewish texts in the new medium. The author describes a case of an online Talmud class and the instructional strategies used by the practitioner. In the new medium, she is restricted in her use of interpretive-relational pedagogies, such as havruta that she would employ in person. Findings describe the ways she navigates these new challenges, emphasizing a tangle of strategies and tactics.
Book Chapters by Joshua S Ladon
Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field, 2024
This is Your Song Too: Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity, 2023
Portraits of Adult Jewish Learning: Making Meaning at Many Tables, 2022
New Jewish Canon, 2020
This is my commentary on Alan Lew and Harold Kushner, featured in Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufri... more This is my commentary on Alan Lew and Harold Kushner, featured in Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin's New Jewish Canon.
Public Writing by Joshua S Ladon
Sources Journal
Praxis is a term used within religion and philosophy to describe the interplay between activities... more Praxis is a term used within religion and philosophy to describe the interplay between activities, behaviors, and practices of a tradition, and the texts, study, and reflection that inform and are informed by these practices. Contemporary scholars and rabbis will often use the term "praxis" as a fancy stand-in for the term "practice," possibly as pushback against a history of Christian critiques of Jews following their Law in cold, rote ways. A robust Jewish praxis recognizes that just as the text may lead one to practice in a particular way, so too, practice may lead to a change in the textual or
Journal of Jewish Educational Leadership, 2023
Sources: A Journal of Jewish Thought, 2022
This conversation emerged from the work of Created Equal, a research group at the Shalom Hartman ... more This conversation emerged from the work of Created Equal, a research group at the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Kogod Research Center, in 2022. We address the "afterlife” of sexual scandals in light of rabbinic, medieval, and contemporary sources. This is not a how-to guide, but rather a starting point for Jewish communities that find themselves in acute need of guidance on how to respond—with respect for the dignity of victims of sexual abuse, with respect for the abuser’s potential for change, and with communal tikkun, repair, as a guiding principle. We argue that a typical understanding of teshuvah as an individual’s internal process of repentance is inadequate. We emphasize the need for the setting and maintenance of better norms around sexuality through public, communal teshuvah and education, and we suggest some means by which individual perpetrators might—with some limitations—rejoin our communities.
Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, 2021
Jewish Educational Leadership, 2017
This paper is a practitioner reflection focusing on the ways I tried to develop intentional havru... more This paper is a practitioner reflection focusing on the ways I tried to develop intentional havruta activities in a tenth grade Talmud beginners Talmud class taught in the original.
Book Reviews by Joshua S Ladon
Journal of Jewish Education , 2023
Talks by Joshua S Ladon
Moderator: Flora Leibowitz
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, “‘We’re All Here Together in this Spirit Family’: P... more Moderator: Flora Leibowitz
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, “‘We’re All Here Together in this Spirit Family’: Phish and the Cultivation of Jewish Cultural Identity in the Twenty-First Century”
Rabbi Josh S. Ladon, “Does God Ever Listen to What I Say?: The Role of Phish in Jewish Clergy Spiritual Development”
Jacob A. Cohen, “‘I Tell Myself I’m Part of a Tribe’: Performing Jewish Identity and Community through Phish’s ‘Avenu Malkenu’”
Rabbi Jessy Dressin, “‘Where the People Come to Pray’: Sacred Pilgrimage, Holy Ritual and Communal Rejoicing from Jerusalem to YEMSG”
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Dissertation by Joshua S Ladon
Peer Reviewed Articles by Joshua S Ladon
Book Chapters by Joshua S Ladon
Public Writing by Joshua S Ladon
Book Reviews by Joshua S Ladon
Talks by Joshua S Ladon
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, “‘We’re All Here Together in this Spirit Family’: Phish and the Cultivation of Jewish Cultural Identity in the Twenty-First Century”
Rabbi Josh S. Ladon, “Does God Ever Listen to What I Say?: The Role of Phish in Jewish Clergy Spiritual Development”
Jacob A. Cohen, “‘I Tell Myself I’m Part of a Tribe’: Performing Jewish Identity and Community through Phish’s ‘Avenu Malkenu’”
Rabbi Jessy Dressin, “‘Where the People Come to Pray’: Sacred Pilgrimage, Holy Ritual and Communal Rejoicing from Jerusalem to YEMSG”
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, “‘We’re All Here Together in this Spirit Family’: Phish and the Cultivation of Jewish Cultural Identity in the Twenty-First Century”
Rabbi Josh S. Ladon, “Does God Ever Listen to What I Say?: The Role of Phish in Jewish Clergy Spiritual Development”
Jacob A. Cohen, “‘I Tell Myself I’m Part of a Tribe’: Performing Jewish Identity and Community through Phish’s ‘Avenu Malkenu’”
Rabbi Jessy Dressin, “‘Where the People Come to Pray’: Sacred Pilgrimage, Holy Ritual and Communal Rejoicing from Jerusalem to YEMSG”