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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


NY man threatens to shoot up yeshiva summer camp over social distancing

The complaint was directed at the Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island's children's day camp, to which Pelle lives next to.

CELEBRATING ISRAEL day at the summer camp of the Greek Jewish community.

Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump will send kids back to Jewish day school

“Children have a six times higher chance to die from the flu than from the coronavirus. So, based on the data I’ve seen, I don’t believe that that’s a risk,” Kushner said.

Jared and Ivanka Kushner

Amid coronavirus, a rabbi and dad is starting an online Jewish day school

Yesod represents one of countless efforts by enterprising parents trying to manage uncertainty around schooling that would have been unimaginable just six months ago.

Parents' response to the uncertainty and danger around school attendance now includes a new effort to create an online Jewish day school.

Marvin Schick, longtime advocate for Jewish day schools, dies at 85

A vocal advocate of Jewish education, Schick conducted a number of comprehensive studies of day schools on behalf of the Avi Chai Foundation, most recently in 2014.

All boys who attend the day school are required to wear kippot and there is a conservative school uniform, including skirts for girls

Coronavirus: Philadelphia Jewish day school art center makes face shields

Since starting production last week, the school in Merion Station has made about 200 shields for distribution to doctors and nurses in the community. Now it’s ramping up production to produce that ma

A member of medical staff swaps a Palestinian worker for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing, upon his return from Israel, outside the Israeli-controlled Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 26, 2020

NY Jewish schools turn to virtual learning during coronavirus closures

Local parent: Antisemites are already blaming the Jews for the local outbreak

One of SAR's Zoom sessions Thursday morning included guitar music

Independent Jewish day school in Connecticut to close down

Carmel Academy announced its closure, citing the “current realities of finances and enrollment.”

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5 innovative ways Jewish day schools are reducing tuition costs

At some schools in the New York-New Jersey area, where most U.S. Jewish day school students are located, annual tuition fees of $30,000 in high school and $20,000 in elementary school are not unusual

Kasowitz presenting LEGO bricks to Jewish school children

FBI: New details on day school admin charged with child pornography

Rabbi Jonathan Skolnick was arrested Friday night on several charges, including the production and possession of child pornography and child enticement.

Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico

NY Jewish day school admin arrested for ‘production of child pornography’

Stanley Rosenfeld, now 84, who has admitted to abusing hundreds of boys throughout his lifetime, worked as an assistant principal at SAR in the 1970s and also taught English there a decade later.

Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico