UpStart Announces Merger, Launches New Innovation One-Stop
Four Organizations Merge Programs and Operations to Lead Next Stage of Jewish Innovation UpStart, Bikkurim, Joshua Venture Group, and U.S. [...]
Three Questions Innovators are Asking This Year
October 21, 2016 | eJewish Philanthropy By Jaime Rapaport Barry Just a week after Yom Kippur, many of us still have [...]
Listen to UpStart Unbound: Our First Podcasting Collaboration
UpStart Unbound is the first-ever collaborative podcast episode of UpStart and Judaism Unbound. Created as part of the UpStart Lab [...]
CHIdush helps synagogue schools create compelling educational experiences
September 8 | JUF News Creativity and innovation come naturally to some. But they also are skills that can be [...]
Judaism as a Teen Refuge
By Rebecca Minkus-Lieberman Orot: Center for New Jewish Learning, Chicago Accelerator Cohort 8 It was early on a winter Sunday morning - [...]
The Power of Giving Teens Choice
By Dana Prottas Yachad, Minneapolis Accelerator Cohort 9 Remember the popular phrase from the film Field of Dreams heard from the [...]
Harnessing the Power of Vision-Driven Teen Work
September 1, 2016 | JFNA Ideas in Jewish Education and Engagement By Taylor Epstein “When one person takes one step [...]
Talking with … Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Educator
August 5 | JWeekly.com Name: Jan L. Holmgren Age: 67 City: Oakland Position: Education consultant, UpStart board chair J: You [...]
Innovator Spotlight: Honoring Pride Month with Reflections from our LGBTQ Community
In celebration of Pride and in the wake of the Orlando shooting, we asked three UpStart innovators for reflections on [...]
Reflections from SVARA’s Rabbi Benay Lappe
When Rabbi Benay Lappe came out, as a teen in the mid ‘70’s, she knew two things: “One, that they [...]
