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Jerome Berryman and the author, Rabbi Michael Shire, Ph.D., at the 2015 Godly Play Conference.
festivals. A group of Trainers and authors, including Sandy, have now created 12 new stories for each Jewish festival, including Shabbat and the New Moon. We have much to do as we move forward: we are thinking about the role of Hebrew in our scripts; we are planning new materials for the cycle of the Jewish year; and we are developing a plan for the classroom layout of stories from the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Midrashim (Rabbis’ stories), and liturgical stories. Jewish Education is being enriched by the introduction of Torah Godly Play, and each one of us involved in teaching, writing, exploring, or telling has new found passion for entering into the world of imagination, creativity, and story to enhance the spiritual life of our children and their families.
Links of interest:
• An Introduction to Torah Godly Play
• A Documentary on Torah Godly Play
• Rabbi Dr. Shire tells the Torah Godly Play story of
the Exodus
• The Reform Jewish Quarterly Article by Jerome
Berryman
Rabbi Michael Shire, Ph.D. is the Dean of the
Shoolman Graduate School of Jewish Education
at Hebrew College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He has been widely published in the eld of Jewish Education and Spiritual Education. In addition, he has published four books of creative liturgy with medieval illuminations in association with the British and Bodleian Libraries. He is founder of the Torah Godly Play pedagogic methodology and serves as the chair of ALOHA, the Association of Institutions of Graduate Jewish Education. mshire@hebrewcollege.edu
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