Tag: Jewish Education
Longtime Yeshiva University president Norman Lamm sought to unify in divisive reality
It was a brave speech at the 1969 Ideological Seminary in Kiljava, Finland. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, then a prominent rabbi, theologian, professor and writer, in the Modern Orthodox world, was dissecting Neturei Karta,...
Tikvah Fund cultivates future Jewish leaders to ‘animate public culture’
In the context of the well-known and long-studied shifting American-Jewish identity in the 21st century, a philanthropic “ideas institution” for the Jewish world is investing, on multiple fronts, to educate the next generation of...
New York City Department of Education offers free iPads to students with special needs
Teach NYS, a division of the Orthodox Union advocating for equitable government funding for New York nonpublic schools, welcomed the New York City Department of Education announcement that students in nonpublic schools who receive...
Online Judaism: A guide for parents on engaging Jewishly in the time of corona
It wasn’t so long ago when life was so over-the-top busy that you longed for some quiet unstructured time with your children.
The coronavirus pandemic has granted that wish.
And then some.
With no end in sight...
If you lower it, will they come? The high costs of Jewish day school
When students returned to the San Diego Jewish Academy just a few weeks ago, they were greeted not only by new teachers, but new classmates as well.
“For the coming school year, we have a...
New York’s Yeshiva University inaugurates Innovation Lab, in partnership with Israel
eshiva University announced the grand opening of the YU Innovation Lab, a collaborative learning space focused on creating a hands-on entrepreneurial environment where Israeli-based startups can grow their U.S. market potential while leveraging YU’s...
Israeli education village for global Jewry gets off the ground in Beersheva
Longtime Jewish philanthropic leader and Chicago native Richard Wexler will lead the mega-gift fundraising of $300 million for a massive new education village to better connect Israel with the global Jewish community, announced JNF-USA.
Wexler...
Public charter schools puts benefits of teaching Hebrew to the test
An experimental approach to learning Hebrew is strengthening the identity of Jewish students who cannot afford a private-school education, while simultaneously building pro-Israel advocates from other faiths.
Now in its ninth year, the Hebrew Public...
The emergence of a new class of Judaic scholars
Each December, the Association for Jewish Studies holds its annual meeting at a hotel somewhere in North America. 1200 professors typically attend, more than twice the number who come to meetings of the Reform...
Jewish Agency to expand school-twinning program with new government funds
The Jewish Agency for Israel says the Israeli government will allocate up to NIS 9 million ($2.48 million) in the coming years to its Partnership Unit’s Global School Twinning Network, primarily to fund the...