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Nitzan Roitman performed for two shows for Shalva and Zichron Menachem. Credit: Courtesy of Nitzan Roitman.

Initiative brings artists into homes of those with disabilities during COVID-19 crisis

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In the new reality of self-isolation, certain populations like people with disabilities, children and youth-at-risk, who rely on interactive therapy for cognitive stimulation, are currently stuck at home with much less access. In response, as...
An empty classroom in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, on March 13, 2020. Schools across the country have been shuttered as a preventive measures against the spread of coronavirus. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Bank of Israel: COVID-19 school closures costing the state NIS 2.6 billion a week

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The Bank of Israel reported on Thursday that the shutdown of the country’s education system due to the coronavirus pandemic is costing Israel NIS 2.6 billion ($735 million) per week. According to the report,...
Karen Glenn, a 12-year-old at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, Calif., chose ORT for her “Tzedakah Day” project, with its emphasis on children's education. Credit: Courtesy.

California day-school student homes in on Israeli education for ‘tzedakah’ project

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A Jewish day-school student has visited ORT projects in Israel after researching the organization’s work for her school tzedakah project. Karen Glenn, a 12-year-old at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, Calif., decided to research...
The University of Haifa. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Startup nation to revitalize entrepreneurship, innovation on university campuses

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Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE), the government agency overseeing colleges and universities just unveiled “The New Campus Vision,” aiming to expose students and faculty from all disciplines to the worlds of entrepreneurship and innovation....
Parents protest with their children against the lack of oversight in Israeli kindergartens, in Haifa, July 7, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Outrage over child abuse at day-care facility in Israel leads to nationwide protests

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Chanting “the country demands justice for the children” and other slogans, thousands of Israelis protested in some 25 locations around the country on Sunday to demand state oversight of day-care centers, amid outrage over...
Campers celebrate Israel Day at Camp Yavneh in New Hampshire. Credit: Campy Yavneh via Facebook.

Summertime Blues and Whites: In an era of BDS, kids connect to Israel at...

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Aviva Weinstein fell in love with Israel thousands of miles from the Jewish homeland at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. Weinstein is among the generations of North American Jewish teens who have forged lifelong attachments...
Soldiers of the Bardales Battalion train in urban warfare on an early foggy morning, near Nitzanim in the Arava area of southern Israel, on July 13, 2016. Formed in 2014, the Bardales Battalion is an infantry combat battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, composed of 50 percent female soldiers, and assigned for future routine security along the Jordanian border in central Israel. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Court rules Education Ministry must create pre-army programs for national religious girls

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Israeli’s High Court of Justice has ruled that the Education Ministry must fund educational programs to prepare young women from the national-religious sector for army service, like it does for boys from the same...
Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s annual convocation, June 11, 2017. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Two Israeli universities listed among global Top 100

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Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem were listed in the top 100 universities in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, otherwise known as the Shanghai Ranking. Technion, which...

JerusalemU Offers Media-Based Jewish and Israel Education Internationally

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At the invitation of Dina Rabhan, Fair Lawn native and president of JerusalemU, who currently resides in Hashmonaim with her husband and seven daughters, we attended one of the local preview screenings of JerusalemU’s...