Make your Classroom an Open Tent Presenter: Rabbi Toby Manewith
The buzzwords in the Jewish community are always changing. Of late, we've heard a lot about Inclusion, Welcoming Communities, and Audacious Hospitality. Over the past number of years the organized Jewish community has seem increased participation by a diversity of families including: single parent families, same-sex parents, bi-racial families, interfaith families and trans-racial adoptees. This course will give educators tips and tricks for avoiding common pitfalls and ideas for including everyone in your community with open arms.
This session is designed for all participants.
Rabbi Toby Manewith knows how to juggle and has perfected baking gluten-free brownies, both of which have brought her renown in very small circles. In her professional life, Rabbi Manewith has worked as a formal and informal Jewish educator, consultant and curriculum writer for more than 25 years. Rabbi Manewith worked for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, for ten years, most notably as the director of the both the Syracuse and American University Hillels. Rabbi Manewith has written curriculum for Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing, a project of Moving Traditions. She has been a faculty member at a number of summer camps including Kutz, Camp Harlam, Camp Ben Frankel and (her favorite) OSRUI. She has taken hundreds of students on trips to Israel, Ukraine, and Germany. In 2015, she returned to her youth group roots and became the Director of Education at Emanuel Congregation. Rabbi Manewith is also a Curriculum Specialist for the Marshall Jewish Learning Center.
