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Leadership Lenses is a new podcast designed for Heads of School, Principals, Menahalim, Roshei Yeshiva and anyone who wants to improve Jewish day school and yeshiva education. These podcast episodes will come out in weekly installments designed for busy leaders. Each one will address a dilemma submitted to us by our listeners and provide our thoughts and hopefully some helpful insights.
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every 8 days
Average audio length:
26 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
65 episodes
since May 7, 2025
episodic
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Most conversations about Jewish unity focus on what we agree on. What if real connection requires the opposite?
In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with JJ Sussman, International Director of Gesher, about how the organization has spent more than fifty years bringing together Israelis from…
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What does it mean to carry forward the voice of a leader whose influence was felt across the Jewish world, well beyond his own lifetime?
In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Jonathan Cannon, CEO of Rabbi Sacks Legacy, about how the organization is translating Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ thi…
What does it take to hit your highest enrollment in 23 years while serving families across the entire spectrum of Jewish observance, and a student body where nearly 40 percent have a learning plan?
In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Dr. Darin Katz, head of school at Hillel Day Schoo…
Three years after October 7th, most Jewish day schools agree that Israel education matters. Far fewer have figured out where it actually belongs in the curriculum, or how to teach it with real depth.In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Noam Weissmann, Executive Vice President of Open …
What if academic rigor and warmth were not opposites, but requirements for each other?
In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Dr. Rachel Harari, head of school at the Sam School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, about building a school where students run through the doors excited to …
Being partners with parents sounds simple. Actually doing it, especially in the middle of a hard conversation about a struggling child, is one of the harder things school leaders and teachers face.In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I welcome back returning guest Jane Taubenfeld Cohen to talk abo…
What does it take to build a brand new school program from scratch, and get it right in year one?In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Rabbi Rick Schindelheim about the lessons he learned launching a new educational program in Israel from the ground up. We explore why clarity of missio…
Every school leader has had that one employee in the back of their mind, the one whose performance has been slipping, the one you are quietly wondering whether you can bring back next year. The problem is most of us avoid that conversation until March, April, or May, when it is far too late to actu…
More American Jewish day school graduates are choosing Israel, not just for a gap year, but for university, army service, and life. What does that shift actually mean for how schools should be preparing their students?In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Tamar Krieger Kalev, Executive…
What if experiential education is not a nice addition to Jewish day schools, but the very thing AI is about to make essential?In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Shuki Taylor, founder and CEO of M Squared, about what it really means to build a Judaism of doing rather than a Judaism o…
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