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Ze'ev Mankowitz - Foreword 11

Walter Ackerman - Introduction 13

I. FORMAL EDUCATION

Gila Katz - Jewish School [No. 51] Tali-Chernowitz 21

Yehudit Kessary - A Jewish Day School in France 36

2. Secondary

Walter Ackerman - "Nach Palastina Durch Wirballen" — A Hebrew Gymnasium in Lithuania 38

Simon Caplan - Immanuel College: The Beginnings of an Educational Project 54

Alice Shalvi - "Women's Wisdom has Built its Home" — A Highly Personal Account of the Pelech Experiment 81

William Cutter - Sof Ma'aseh Bemahsheva — Origins at the Hebrew Union College: The Case of the Rhea Hirsch School 98

Dmitri Elyashevich - Petersburg Jewish University — New Beginnings 124

Michael Swirsky - The Pardes Institute: An Experiment in Open-Ended Religious Education for Adults 130

II. INFORMAL EDUCATION

Pamela Jay Gottfried - Camp Ramah: Origins, Problems, and Partial Solutions 145

Charles Herman - Nesiya — An Israel Experience 158

Gustavo Daniel Perednik - Ideals, Tenacity and Youth — The Centro Hebreo Iona 182

III. NETWORKS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Cherie Koller-Fox - The Empowerment of the Jewish Teacher: Founding of the Coalition for Alternatives in Jewish Education 213

Lee Levine - The Tali Schools 259

Deborah Weissman - Bais Ya'akov as an Innovation in Jewish Women's Education: A Contribution to the Study of Education and Social Change 278