Three years after October 7th, most Jewish day schools agree that Israel education matters. Far fewer have figured out where it actually belongs in the curriculum, or how to teach it with real depth.In this episode of Leadership Lenses, I speak with Noam Weissmann, Executive Vice President of Open Door Media and host of Unpacking Israeli History, the most downloaded Jewish podcast in the world. We explore why Israel education so often gets relegated to a hallway display or a single day on the calendar, what it actually looks like to integrate it seriously into Tanakh, Talmud, and Hebrew language classes, and why striking while the iron is cold matters more than reacting in a moment of crisis.Noam also shares his vision for a 20 by 20 canon of Israel knowledge, what the best schools are doing to build a real scope and sequence, and why teaching complexity and multiple perspectives, rather than simple advocacy, is what actually makes students fall in love with the story of Israel.It is a rich, idea-dense conversation for any school leader serious about strengthening how their students understand their own story. I can't wait to hear what you take away from this conversation.

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