Hidden Curriculum: A Tool for Assessing Institutional Messages about Power

This piece is a guide to help the reader examine how their institution, organization, or community might be conveying messages about power and belonging without intending to do so. It introduces the concept of a “hidden curriculum”, and shows how the application of this concept can help individuals and leadership teams bring their communities into alignment with core Jewish values like kedusha (holiness), kavod (respect), and tzedek (justice).