Tag: education

July marks the two-year anniversary of the Oregon Jewish Museum's merger with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.

The elimination of the obligation to teach core curriculum subjects will not result in reducing the budgets of Haredi yeshivas who pass on the extra material.

“Israel is responsible to protect and strengthen Jewish identity and affinity for Israel among each and every Jew everywhere in the world."

Many educators broadcast a message that while TaNaCh is important, TALMUD is where their focus needs to be. It is time to change that approach!

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon doesn't think it's a good idea to build a casino in Eilat; he'd rather see more money for schools.

The Im Tirtzu movement revealed the involvement of 20 Israeli academics in the proposed resolution of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to join the boycott against Israel.

The governor later tweeted: "What a great honor it was to march in the @CelebrateIsrael parade today."

The Mayberg Family Foundation is hosting its annual Jewish Education Innovation Challenge (JEIC) retreat. The challenge offers finalists 12 minutes to pitch their projects to a panel of judges,

President Rivlin was asked by Arab high schoolers how they should grapple with the Jewish symbolism in the national anthem, as non-Jews.

Most Mechanchim currently struggle on the salaries they are paid. How should the Torah world address this shameful situation?

In 2016, RAVSAK and the Technion challenged Jewish Day School students around the world to create a Rube Goldberg machine that tells the story of Passover.

Most schools would have to stop doing almost everything they now do in the name of school improvement.

The parents of said schoolgirls said the gift is offensive to the girls as well as to their families.

After six years Ariel University wins a BDS discrimination lawsuit against the government of Spain.

Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai visited the town of Efrat in Gush Etzion to observe how the town protects its educational centers and students.

Leader of a group behind the lawsuit says the political pressure forces the government to ignore basic subjects such as math, English and computers.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett has launched a new initiative to persuade high school students to study higher mathematics in university.

Shimoni insisted that the Education Ministry’s plan is to move at a moderate pace, “not by force but with smarts, with a great deal of caring and sensitivity, but also with determination, never give up the goal.”

Hazan's bill has a good chance of becoming a law.

According to AMCHA, UC has experienced many incidents of anti-Jewish discrimination this past academic year.

The Jerusalem municipality joined the city's parents group in calling a school strike over inadequate security funding.

Yeshiva University President Richard Joel announces his retirement in 2018; earlier if a successor can be found.

Halacha Education Center introduces new program for over 1,300 students.

More than two million Israeli children returned to the classrooms across the country Tuesday.

Bennett says the move will help narrow the social gap between Arabs and Jews.

Two of the three arsonists who torched an integrated Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem were fined and sentenced to prison.

The California State Assembly on Monday passed a resolution urging action on the increasingly rampant anti-Semitism on University of California (UC) campuses. The resolution urges...

Vile antisemitism in a school district 90 miles from NYC led to a multi-million dollar settlement.

Established in 2004, with 300 students, MJI today boasts more than 2,000 students, the vast majority of whom participate in the school’s distance learning program, many of them overseas.

A new cyber defense program has opened for the first time at an Israeli pre-army yeshiva.