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Oklahoma board to vote on application for religious Jewish charter school

The proposal would integrate Oklahoma academic standards with daily Jewish religious instruction, including Hebrew, Jewish texts, holidays and religious practice.

Boys in the hallway at Jewish day school
  A school bus is seen in Brooklyn in New York, United States of America, on July 4th, 2024.

Man arrested for throwing rock at school bus, fractured skull of 8-year-old Jewish girl

Students participate in a class at Denver Jewish Day School, where increased enrollment has led to fuller classrooms.

In Denver, a Jewish day school happily copes with a surge in new students

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., is pictured on July 30, 2024.

Jewish group revives push for public funding for religious schools that stalled at Supreme Court


Jewish principals struggle to celebrate Lag Ba’omer amid Meron tragedy

“Tragedy and happiness can live side by side, although that’s a difficult balance,” said Tamar Cytryn, director of Jewish studies and campus life at Chicago Jewish Day School.

Students at Scheck Hillel Community School in south Florida celebrated Lag b'Omer while commemorating the tragedy in Meron, Israel.

Orthodox Jewish groups thank Chuck Schumer for COVID-19 relief package

The National Education Association expressed “strong disappointment” at what it called a “Betsy DeVos-era” policy, referring to former President Donald Trump’s education secretary.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) delivers remarks beside Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) on COVID-19 relief, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, February 11, 2021.

Hidden Sparks to open education center for NYC Jewish day school parents

The center will open in Queens, and is will launch in time for the 2021/22 academic year.

Flushing, Queens.

I ditched Hebrew school to be in ‘A Christmas Carol.’ I have no regrets

After sitting down and wrestling with my 10-year-old conscience, I chose the fun option.

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

Beliba Homa bridges between haredi and non-haredi students

Founded in 2012, the project matches haredi students with a range of religious and secular students who meet on a weekly basis.

Ultra-Orthodox children wearing face masks at their school in the city of Rehovot, May 24, 2020

Jewish day schools and yeshivas remain open as NYC public schools close

With the positivity rate ticking upward and the city’s COVID situation growing more dire, the in-person operation of New York City’s Jewish schools remains precarious.

Police keep watch at the Nitra Yeshiva on May 19, 2020 in Brooklyn, NY. Police broke up a session of about 60 students at the Orthodox yeshiva.

Ivanka, Jared pull their kids from DC Jewish school amid COVID-19 concerns

Three parents of children who attend the school said the withdrawal came after parents raised concerns that Kushner and Trump were seen at events not complying with coronavirus protocols

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

TALI- Bridging the religious divide

After 26 years at the helm, Eitan Chikli leaves the thriving TALI school network that promotes pluralistic Judaism

Dr. Eitan Chikli served as director general of the TALI Education Fund for 26 years

State's first-ever Jewish primary school opens in Vermont

The school will teach Jewish values and culture as well as Judaic studies and Hebrew immersion.

Israeli kids wearing school bags ahead of the first day of school and kindergarten outside their home in Jerusalem on August 31, 2020, The Israeli secular state education system will open tomorrow.

Maryland Jewish day school principal donates bone marrow to 2-year-old

Five attackers threw a grenade into the restaurant in August 1982 before opening fire on some 30 diners and passersby. The restaurant closed in 2006.

Bone marrow 370