Tag: Jewish Education
Adding depth to Holocaust classes
One of many anti-Jewish laws the Nazi regime enacted between 1933 and 1945 prohibited Jews from owning dogs, cats, and birds. So what were German Jewish families to do with their beloved pets?
This question...
Jewish school faces closure for refusing to teach its young girls transgender issues despite...
Vishnitz Girls School has become an unlikely battleground for LGBT rights
The Haredi Jewish tradition dictates the separation of genders in schooling
But Ofsted is insisting that it teach about homosexuality and transgender...
The potential impact of educational technology on jewish education
A History of the “Future of Jewish Education”
By Russel Neiss
In 1911, William Inglis, writing for Harper’s Weekly profiled Thomas Edison’s latest invention that he guaranteed would, “make school so attractive that a big army...
All the colors of Jewish education
Sometimes the world seems as if it’s divided into so many little never-intersecting bubbles that it’s coming out of a gigantic plastic wand a crazed giant is waving in the air.
We see the dangers...
Synagogues launch experiment in education, inclusion
Two synagogues with deep histories in New Jersey have initiated an educational experiment, not only to teach their children, but to create “outreach to hundreds of families…unaffiliated with Jewish life and give them a...
Bergen county high school of Jewish studies graduates 2017 class
The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies (BCHSJS) recently held its annual graduation at Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes. This year’s 12 graduates are Jessica Baer, Camryn Bolkin, Steven Grossman,...
Special needs students recognized for completing Giborim U program
75 special needs adults and children were honored with awards for completing the Giborim U 12-week program of courses on May 21 at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie.
"This is a very...
New ‘Yeshiva for the nations’ brings light of Torah to Christians
“And many peoples shall go and say: ‘Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Hashem, to the house of the God of Yaakov; and He will teach us of His...
Limmud FSU: Students ‘must learn early to combat anti-Semitism’
Jewish students need to be educated on how to deal with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel situations long before they get to university. This is the view of Martin Yafe, a leading educator in New York’s...
The blinking game
If I blink to the left, my little missive will be a Mother’s Day tribute. If I blink to the right, my missive will be a tribute to my years in summer camping.
Left, right,...