2024-05-15T17:36:26-07:00 2023-06-30 990EZ 2022-07-01 731685391 JEWISH SPIRITUAL LITERACY INC JEWI 4104009820 3700 Menlo Drive Baltimore MD 21215 Alexander Seinfeld Chairman 4104009820 2024-05-15 Alexander Seinfeld 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 X 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.jsli.org X X 183369 X 124479 58790 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 224 -124 0 183145 0 0 187475 0 4806 8435 21821 222537 -39392 89914 0 50522 X 83354 45459 0 0 6782 6213 90136 51672 222 1150 89914 50522 Educational products and services, including seminars, printed materials, electronic materials, audio and visual materials. EDUCATING EDUCATORS - We continued to expand the quantity and quality of the J-IDEA teacher training program's 10 major content categories: Jewish Holidays, Art of Amazement, Esoteric, Marriage, Ritual, Ethics, Meditation & Prayer, Texts, History and Miscellaneous. In addition, we directly trained and mentored a new cohort of 5 educators, increasing their skills at implementing experiential learning, and their thousands of students. JSLI pedagogy provided them with fresh and innovative ways to motivate students in learning and develop their respect and love of Judaism. 0 4200 JTI - The Jewish Teachers Institute - In its sixth year, this project to train and mentor teachers for Jewish day schools continued with a cohort of 18 teachers serving approximately 400 students. The JTI "Boot Camp / Recharge" includes: model and practice a Harry Wong-informed classroom management method, simple concrete indicators of successful teaching (following Thomas Sergiovanni's and Elliot Eisner's models of professional standards), lesson planning and assessments, principles of visual and differentiated instruction and hands-on engagement, effective use of textbooks A/V resources and other technologies; with specific curricular support as well. All participants increased their knowledge and skills in one or more of the above categories. JTI-trained teachers increased their classroom effectiveness and were more likely to continue teaching. 0 22000 E-LEARNING - Our daily, weekly, and monthly video Torah classes continued, including "Zoom Talmud". Our weekly "Table Talk" entered its fourteenth year, bringing food for thought and discussion to thousands of Friday night dinner tables worldwide. 73118 61300 MEDIA DISTRIBUTION - Our worldwide book distribution continued, including the best-selling "Art of Amazement: Discover Judaism's Forgotten Spirituality" in two languages, the "Art of Amazement Haggada", plus the Bar Mitzvah Album, found at barmitzvahalbum.com. Thousands of visitors found quality books and toys via our searchable site, bestjewishkidsbooks.com. We also began to redevelop our popular iPhone app - The Amazing Jewish Fact-a-Day Calendar - scheduled for an early 2024 release! 0 6550 TORAH HEALTH AND FITNESS - Torah Health and Fitness is a response to a growing awareness that the Jewish community has not paid enough attention to this mitzvah. We have the same health stats as the general public including tragic levels of preventable conditions such as diabetes and cardio-vascular disease. Our mission as the Jewish People is greatly handicapped because we are not meeting this challenge. Yet we have tremendous Torah wisdom and medical knowledge on how to improve this situation! We have 3,000 years of wisdom on this subject, but until now it has been scattered across many books, most of which have never been translated. In partnership with doctors and dietitians, the program includes current medical information (with references to medical literature) on what is known about nutrition, exercise, weight loss and longevity. We hope that this combination of Torah wisdom and medical knowledge will increase awareness of how vital and easy it is to eat and exercise (etc.) healthfully and to increase the holiness with which we treat our bodies, and thereby keep Jews out of the hospital, nursing homes, and wheelchairs for preventable reasons. While Jewishly-focused, our long-term goal is to help anyone of any background achieve improvements in health, wellbeing and longevity. This year we launched both the book - Body & Soul: The Torah Path to Health, Fitness and a Holy Life - and the free resource website, https://torahhealth.org. 2900 56790 GADLUS HA-ADAM - This after-school program for elementary and middle-school children uses music and other arts to engage them Jewishly. 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