Tag: Education
British rabbis protest school bill mandating secular subjects at yeshivahs
A group of rabbis in the United Kingdom gathered outside British Parliament on Wednesday to protest a proposed school bill that is being described as “a threat to alter fundamental facets of Jewish practice.”
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EU Parliament condemns PA textbooks over incitement
The European Parliament has passed a decision condemning the Palestinian Authority for extremist incitement in its school textbooks, Ynet reported on Saturday. The books are produced with E.U. funding.
The decision called for a rapid removal of...
European parliament members condemn Palestinian Authority for anti-Semitic curriculum
Despite Western calls for reform, the Palestinian Authority curriculum has ramped up its incitement in recent years, with school textbooks and other learning materials filled with anti-Semitism, calls for jihad, rejection of reconciliation and...
Ukrainian academics arrive at Hebrew University under emergency aid program
As part of a donor-funded emergency-aid program established at Hebrew University, 18 Ukrainian refugees have been accepted to programs to continue their studies.
Ten of them have already begun, including Anastasiia Zinevych, who has a Ph.D. and...
University of California system considers mandatory ethnic-studies requirement
The University of California higher-education system is considering adding a new admission requirement that will force high school students in the state to learn a controversial and anti-Semitic ethnic-studies curriculum if they want to...
‘Revolution’ taking place among Arab sector in Israel, report shows
The Arab sector in Israel is modernizing, according to Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya, director of the Arab Society in Israel program at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI).
Haj-Yahya is co-author of a new report—the Annual Statistical...
US Jewish leaders asleep in the face of anti-Israel school curricula
Massachusetts Jews are facing a storm of institutionalized animus as anti-Israel curricula are spreading to public schools statewide. Jewish leaders in the Bay State know about these developments, but to date have not told...
UAE textbooks teach tolerance as PA curriculum calls for violence, anti-Jewish incitement
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) has uncovered thousands of pages of new teaching material produced by the Palestinian Authority that directly calls for violence and promotes anti-Semitism, even...
British education secretary hosts summit addressing campus anti-Semitism in UK
The United Kingdom’s education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, hosted a summit last week where vice chancellors from universities across the country, university representatives and Jewish groups gathered to discuss better ways of tackling anti-Semitism in...
American Jewish Committee gives $50,000 to initiatives for battling anti-Semitism
The American Jewish Committee announced the five winners of its new “Disrupt Antisemitism” initiative.
A panel comprised of AJC staff members, journalists and business leaders reviewed nearly 70 submissions, and on Monday revealed the five projects that...