Laurie Rappeport

Laurie Rappeport lives in Safed, Israel. She is an online Israel and Jewish studies educator for JETS Israel and works with the Jewish Educators Awards (http://www.jewisheducatorawards.org) to increase the visibility of online education in the Jewish educational landscape.

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Tradition And Technology: E-learning In Jewish Day Schools

By Laurie Rappeport

Day schools can have boys and girls participate in the same online class but they don't meet or interact in "real time."

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America’s Earliest Jews

By Laurie Rappeport

The Newport Touro synagogue was never officially named "Touro" – the community called itself Yeshuat Yisrael. By the mid-19th century, however, the Newport synagogue was recognized, though never formally, as the Touro Synagogue.