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How can educational leaders shape a constructive Jewish conversation about gender and power? How do we draw on Jewish ideas and experience to elevate both discourse and behavior in our educational communities on gender and the healthy use of power?

We live in a Jewish community which aspires to ethical leadership, but when it comes to issues of power, especially as they relate to gender, our conduct too often fails to live up to this standard. The Jewish community is no better than broader society in preventing inequities around gender perpetuated by the misuse of power and by fealty to structures which enable it. Such gaps between our values and our actions challenge the moral integrity and thriving of our communities.

The Shalom Hartman Institute’s Created Equal Educators Fellowship is a learning laboratory for educators dedicated to examining these questions. This fellowship is informed by the work of Created Equal: Gender and the Ethics of Shared Leadership: a research and education project which brings Jewish thought into conversation with these challenges through both critical and constructive lenses. On the one hand, we explore how the application of Jewish tradition and ideas can contribute to gender inequity. Simultaneously, we mine Jewish text and experience for values that can inform and inspire our struggle to pursue the ethical. This dual approach allows us to shape a Jewish discourse that honestly confronts today’s realities.

Selected fellows are a diverse and impressive group of senior Jewish educators, people who teach Jewish content and influence the educational vision of their institutions. This includes professionals who teach in day schools, Hebrew schools, camps, rabbinical schools, Hillels, Federations and other organizations. Participants in the fellowship are exposed to deep learning on the topics of gender and power, and are given access to educational and curricular materials that they can use in crafting their own educational vision on these topics. The fellowship experience emphasizes peer learning and group discussion about how to incorporate the ideas and texts studied into participants’ educational frameworks.

The fellowship engages the following themes:

The Jewish Canon: Gender and Privilege

In what ways can Jewish tradition serve as a resource for addressing inequities, and in what ways does it perpetuate inequities around privilege related to gender?

Masculinity, Femininity, and Gender Equity

What are visions for healthy masculinity and femininity, and how can the community engage people of all genders in shaping them? How might we take experiences of non-women into account when thinking about gender equity? What stories does our tradition tell about the feminine and the masculine, and how do those inherited stories constrain or empower us? How can we build on our heritage to form healthy models of gender for ourselves as educators and for our learners?

Images of Leadership

What are the ideational and social challenges to change in these arenas that we need to consider? How might the images of what or who is a leader be expanded to include those who have been marginalized or unconsciously demoted? What are the sensitivities between “old guard” and “new guard” in moments of leadership transformation such as this?

The Process of Making Change

How does the consideration of gender equity as a moral imperative versus a moral concern implicate the pace and scope of change around these issues? What are the benefits and deficits of more incremental change versus more radical change? How should we address the experience of loss that inevitably accompanies change? How does leading change around an issue implicate the personal and engage relationships with others?

Ethical Use of Power

How should we address the relationship between power and corruption, between charisma and narcissism? How should we respond to scandalous use of power, especially when we ourselves may be implicated? How does this implicate us as educators when we consider our own power?

#MeToo

How can Jewish values and texts help me understand and respond to gender-based harassment and violence? How does awareness of gender-based harassment and violence shift my experience of reading Jewish text? 

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