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Connecting Jewish Learning to Life's Real Decisions

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The Challenge We're Addressing

Despite years of Jewish education, many learners struggle to apply Jewish wisdom when facing life's most important decisions—career choices, ethical dilemmas, relationships, or processing current events. They've learned facts and concepts, but can't connect them to real-world challenges when it matters most.

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A Different Approach

JIDM is part of an emerging integration movement in Jewish education—shifting from knowledge transmission to helping learners integrate Jewish perspectives into personal decision-making.
 

Instead of asking "What does my teacher think I should believe?"
We help learners ask "How does Jewish wisdom help me navigate my situation?"
 

The JIDM Framework

Our approach builds decision-making capacity through three integrated components:

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Knowledge Exposure → Making It Personal → Developing Your Own Approach

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Learners engage Jewish wisdom not as abstract information, but as practical resources for understanding contemporary challenges and making meaningful life choices.
 

What Success Looks Like

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Rather than measuring program satisfaction or knowledge retention, we focus on decision-making capacity—whether learners can actually apply Jewish perspectives when making consequential life decisions while strengthening their connection to Jewish community and peoplehood.
 

Moving Forward
 

JIDM provides educators and institutions with:

• Practical frameworks for connecting Jewish knowledge to real-world decisions

• Assessment tools that measure meaningful educational outcomes

• A common language for advancing integration across the field
   

Ready to learn how JIDM can transform your educational approach?
 

Principal Investigators: Dr. Ezra Kopelowitz, Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education, and Dr. Benji Davis, Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education, Yeshiva University