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With Jewish schools facing an increasingly dire shortage of teachers, they're looking in out-of-the-box places to find t...
09/18/2025

With Jewish schools facing an increasingly dire shortage of teachers, they're looking in out-of-the-box places to find the next great Jewish educators. That includes MTV.

Working at MTV is not typical training for a Jewish day school teacher. But Oren Kaunfer is no ordinary Jewish teacher. The New England native had a successful career in television before deciding he wanted a more meaningful job. Kaunfer, the son of a prominent Conservative rabbi from Providence, Rh...

Effective leadership in Jewish day schools is more important than ever. Yet the schools are facing an unprecedented shor...
09/03/2025

Effective leadership in Jewish day schools is more important than ever. Yet the schools are facing an unprecedented shortage of leaders. Here's how you can help.

There may be no institution more important today for the future of the North American Jewish community than day schools. They’re not merely Jewish educational institutions. These schools are vibrant centers of Jewish life, culture, and identity that often serve as centers of community, and their i...

It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. These teachers are doing some unus...
08/15/2025

It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. These teachers are doing some unusual things to try to change that.

It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. When one Jewish educational organization asked day school students in middle school and high school several years ago to respond to the question, “What percentage of your time in Judaic studies do you spend tal...

While in recent months members of the Israeli kibbutzim and towns near Gaza have returned to their homes, the area’s reh...
08/05/2025

While in recent months members of the Israeli kibbutzim and towns near Gaza have returned to their homes, the area’s rehabilitation needs remain vast.

KIBBUTZ EREZ, Israel — Under the shade of a large tree on Kibbutz Erez less than a mile from the Gaza Strip, half a dozen Israeli children play history trivia games with a counselor. When loud booms from Gaza echo across the sky, some of the kids flinch at the noise. It’s a reminder of […]

This Reform synagogue in Manhattan reimagined its once-weekly afternoon religious school program. Just don’t call it Heb...
06/08/2025

This Reform synagogue in Manhattan reimagined its once-weekly afternoon religious school program. Just don’t call it Hebrew school.

When fifth-grader Shayna Osterweil disagrees with someone, she tries to keep in mind what she learned at religious school about the Talmudic sages Hillel and Shammai, known for their civil discourse. If something is bothering third-grader Aliza Schumer, she may search for ways to be shalem — Hebre...

When Emily Austin was 16, a Holocaust education trip to Poland changed her life. Then came Oct. 7.
05/19/2025

When Emily Austin was 16, a Holocaust education trip to Poland changed her life. Then came Oct. 7.

When Emily Austin was 16, a Holocaust education trip to Poland changed her life. The child of secular Israeli immigrants to New York, Austin grew up in Brooklyn and decided early on that being a Jew was important to her identity. But after the Poland trip, Jewish pride and combating antisemitism too...

Most Israelis have a refreshingly high level of environmental literacy and commitment to doing better. But government mi...
05/04/2025

Most Israelis have a refreshingly high level of environmental literacy and commitment to doing better. But government ministers aren't among them, says Alon Tal.

Alon Tal is one of Israel’s leading environmentalists and a former member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Now the chair of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Public Policy, Tal will be hosting a landmark conference at Stanford University in late May on lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Av...

With rising populism and increasing opposition worldwide to immigration, Chanoff says his work is more urgent than ever.
04/27/2025

With rising populism and increasing opposition worldwide to immigration, Chanoff says his work is more urgent than ever.

At a time of rising populism and increasing opposition worldwide to immigration from countries wracked by poverty and civil war, Chanoff says his work is more urgent than ever.

With global antisemitism on the rise and many US campuses a hotbed of anti-Israel ferment, more American Jews are lookin...
04/27/2025

With global antisemitism on the rise and many US campuses a hotbed of anti-Israel ferment, more American Jews are looking at Hebrew University.

In 1974, Pamela Nadler Emmerich — then a teenager from Montreal — arrived in Jerusalem for her freshman year at Hebrew University. Not knowing what to expect, she signed up for a course on Jewish intellectualism, “Philosophical Implications of Rabbinic Thought,” taught by Montreal native Rab...

Michael Kramer, who died on March 28 due to lung cancer, was a lifelong Jewish Michigander.
04/24/2025

Michael Kramer, who died on March 28 due to lung cancer, was a lifelong Jewish Michigander.

If there was one thing that Michael Kramer, an attorney, philanthropist and prominent Jewish community member from Michigan, loved more than the Detroit Lions, it was his close-knit family and wide circle of friends. “We would go to every Lion’s game and they were always really bad,” said Kram...

Weight-related issues can be a significant complication in cancer treatment, particularly for patients who are diabetic ...
04/23/2025

Weight-related issues can be a significant complication in cancer treatment, particularly for patients who are diabetic or obese. A Jewish group is helping patients find solutions.

Jamie Mafdali of South Florida was hit with a cancer double-whammy three years ago. Shortly after her mother began treatment for breast cancer and learned it had metastasized, Mafdali herself was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma in her left breast. Given her family history, Mafdali, now 45,....

Amid heightened antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment, American Jews have been voting in record numbers in these Zionis...
04/17/2025

Amid heightened antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment, American Jews have been voting in record numbers in these Zionist elections. Billions of dollars hang in the balance.

At a time of heightened antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment, American Jews have been voting in record numbers in an election that will help determine how billions of dollars in Israel-related funding will be spent. The election for the World Zionist Congress, held every five years, provides the o...

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