On January 27-28, 2008, the Mandel Center at Brandeis hosted a research conference on Teaching Rabbinic Literature: Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy.  The conference featured 50 presentations and brought together more than 200 academics and educators representing 30 Jewish day schools, 20 universities, 12 yeshivot and rabbinical seminaries from across the denominations, and numerous other educational institutions.

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This conference was hosted by the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, a partnership between the Mandel Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, and Brandeis University. The Mandel Center gratefully acknowledges the support of the Mandel Foundation and its leadership. The Mandel Center also acknowledges additional support for this conference from Combined Jewish Philanthropies; from Targum Shlishi, a Raquel and Aryeh Rubin Foundation; and from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.