Posts Tagged: Jewish education
A Counterview on Yeshivas and Jewish Education
The recent legislation passed in Albany regarding yeshiva education has taken the controversy over yeshivas to a new level of intensity. As a result, critics...
Family and Community: The Secrets of Jewish Endurance
The arrest of David and Louise Turpin in Perris, California, earlier this week was immediately followed by details of one of the most disturbing news stories...
Teachers From Four Countries and Across Religious Spectrum Gather for Israel Education Workshop Focusing on ‘History, Not Narrative’
Pre-collegiate teachers from four countries and across religious denominations will gather Sunday to learn how to educate students about Israel, an organizer of the one-week program told The...
Orthodox Contestant on ‘Jeopardy College Championship’ Says ‘Rigorous, Religious-Secular’ Yeshiva Curriculum Prepared Him Well for Trivia ‘Cramming’
An Orthodox Jewish contestant competing in this year’s “College Championship” of the hit TV trivia quiz show “Jeopardy!” told The Algemeiner on Wednesday that his...
Effective Jewish Advocacy Begins With Jewish Education
Since its passage in December, UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which claimed that Israel′s settlement activity and sovereignty over the Western Wall are "flagrant violations" of international...
Major Jewish Group Says Trump Pick of School-Choice Champion as Education Secretary Good News for Community
The executive director of the public-policy arm of the largest Orthodox Jewish organization in the United States told The Algemeiner on Thursday why President-elect Donald...
Ivanka Trump at Florida Synagogue: My Father Called Before Jewish High Holidays and Said ‘You Better Pray Hard for Me’
Ivanka Trump -- the Jewish daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump -- told a synagogue gathering in the battleground state of Florida on Thursday...
A Commencement Message and a Call to Judaism
Your birth was your defining moment -- yet you didn't ask to be born at all, much less to the family you were born into. You didn't...
A New Israel Divide: One Family vs. A School and a Jewish Community (PART TWO)
JNS.org - (Part 2 of a two-part series. Read Part 1 here.) In the first part of this series, we described the developing legal drama between the Rachmuth family and...
A New Israel Divide: One Family vs. a School and a Jewish Community (PART ONE)
JNS.org - (Part 1 of a two-part series) Ask two Jews, you get three opinions — or is it four? We’re a people so fractious that we...
We Must Show Our Children That Judaism Is a Religion of Rebellion
The establishment of the state of Israel, together with the challenges that modernity has presented to the Jewish people, have confronted Judaism with a reality...
Senator Schumer: Condoning Terror Against Israel Led to Paris Attacks
Because the world failed to rise up against terrorism directed against Israel beginning in the 1970s, the type of terrorism witnessed last Friday across Paris, killing more than...
$300K in Jewish Education Funding Aids Houston Families Affected by Flood
JNS.org - Two grants totaling $300,000 from the Jim Joseph Foundation and The AVI CHAI Foundation have provided scholarships for Jewish day schools, early childhood programs,...
The Ties That Bind: Marking 20 Years of a Reimagined B’nai Mitzvah Process
JNS.org - In recent years, many communities have taken a fresh look at their b’nai mitzvah ceremonies. How can it be more relevant? More inspiring? And...
