“In this annual issue of Sight Line, we introduce you to the new Covenant grantees. As you read through these interviews, you will identify courageous attempts by each to expand their “universe of obligation.”
–Joni Blinderman, Executive Director, The Covenant Foundation

“The ability to sit with the unknown is a spiritual quality, and can be a place of creativity, exploration, and playfulness.”
–Rabbi Lisa Goldstein

“Sometimes just allowing yourself to consider, on paper, one of your dreams, can manifest its reality far more than just thinking about it in abstract.”
–Joni Blinderman, Executive Director, The Covenant Foundation

“As we enter the New Year, let us remember the unique power and healing quality that relationship-building offers, and look ahead to the new connections we may build in 5783.”
– Joni Blinderman, Executive Director, The Covenant Foundation

“Once we recognize that we are, actually, ‘creatures of the world…’ then the imperative to improve our world, and to make the distribution of mental extensions more equitable, becomes impossible to ignore. – Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

“Sight Line has become a window into the creativity that is flourishing in the field of Jewish education—across all sectors.”
–Harlene Winnick Appelman, Executive Director, The Covenant Foundation

“Education holds the key to changing the world and making it better. For education to achieve all that it can, we must have teachers who believe in the moral, ethical, Jewish ideas we teach and who are committed to inspiring their students”

—Rabbi David Eliach, A Covenant of Dreams: Realizing the Promise of Jewish Education, 2009