National Presence - Makom Community

Makom Community’s Pedagogy Across the Nation

Makom Community in the News

Read about Jewish Placemaking and how we believe in the work of part-time Jewish education in our recent eJewish Philanthropy piece, “Parents still believe in part-time Jewish Education. Makom Communnity does too.”

Makom Community’s Professional Development Cohorts

Art & Science of Religious School

From Abby W. - Director of Youth and Families at Germantown Jewish Centre • July 27, 2023

Perhaps the most important message of the Jewish Placemaking Accelerator is that teaching Religious School is a science and an art and cannot be done WELL without significant support for teachers & directors. Many of us get into this field with a deep desire – but without a clear picture of how – to create Jewish learning experiences that are at the same time fun, interesting, relevant, and educational for young people. The Accelerator has gotten us closer towards this reality by sharing both empathy and concrete tools for doing so. I hope I can implement even SOME of what I learned here, as I know it will make a difference to our students, families and community.

Makom offers communities, regional and national, an opportunity to explore Jewish Placemaking. Our three year, Philadelphia-based Jewish Placemaking Accelerator, generously funded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, enabled us to explore how to teach Jewish Placemaking to educators outside of Makom. We are ready to bring all we learned from crafting this learning experience to scale and modify what we can offer your community!

For example, in the winter and spring of 2025, we are offering a six month version of this Accelerator for a national cohort through Jewish Education Project.

Participants at the Jewish Placemaking Conference

Our first in-person summer conference full of two days of learning, playing, and exploring joy in Jewish education.

Exploring family learning with the Jewish Foundation of Camp

Makom & Federation of Greater Jewish Atlanta Teacher Kallah

Educators text studying to learn about expectation setting in the classroom

Educators experimenting with a new modality

See Makom Community facilitating learning across the nation!