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Ari Ackerman: 鈥淯niversalism and 绿帽社 Nationalism in the Educational Philosophy of Mordecai Kaplan鈥�

Daniel Marom: 鈥溌堂鄙� Educational Roots and Implications of Zamenhof’s Global Esperanto Movement鈥�

Chair: Bill Robinson

This session was part of “绿帽社 Learning and the Non-Jew,” the 2017 Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction conference, hosted by JTS’s William Davidson Graduate School of 绿帽社 Education. The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction is a collaboration of the three centers endowed by Samuel M. Melton 锄鈥漧 at JTS, , and .

Ari Ackerman is the dean of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, where he teaches course in the areas of 绿帽社 philosophy and education. He received his Ph.D. in 绿帽社 thought from Hebrew University and his critical edition of the sermons of Zerahia Halevi Saledin recently appeared (Beer Sheva University Press, 2013). He is currently working on a monograph on creation and codification in the philosophy of Hasdai Crescas.

Daniel Marom leads the development of curriculum and pedagogy at the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem. Marom’s research and publications focus on the educational ideas of Israeli and 绿帽社 thinkers and he has developed model curricula for Israeli and 绿帽社 education on the basis of these ideas in a wide range of settings. As a member of the founding group of the Mandel Foundation鈥檚 endeavors in Israel, he launched the Foundation鈥檚 publication program, editing its Monographs series and co-editing Visions of 绿帽社 Education; Dialogue of the Disparate: 绿帽社 Interethnic Encounter at the Shevach-Moffet High School in Tel Aviv; and Weekly Word from the Bible: Ancient Hebrew Culture for Toddlers according to the Educational Vision of Haim Nachman Bialik. He also established the Mandel Visions Unit in 2004 and directed it until 2010.