The program seeks to cultivate tolerance and respect towards Druze tradition and way of life, and to develop the ability to maintain a respectful dialogue with other communities while listening to diverse positions.
Starting in Rome, the Yael and Lauder Foundations embarked on a mega-philanthropic partnership to revitalize Jewish education in Europe.
"Israeli researchers are dealing with issues of boycotts and in order to deal with this it is necessary to think outside the box. This is an existential need for these institutions.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some 10% of surveyed students also thought that PLO leader Yasser Arafat was the first prime minister of Israel.
UNRWA has created a terrorism education system. Watch...
The Gush Etzion council was awarded the National Education Prize last year.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed “militia” of P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, claimed responsibility for the shooting.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to critics, the Parents Circle "draw[s] an immoral equivalence between terror victims and terrorists."
“Incitement to hatred and violence and glorification of terror violate E.U. core values,” tweeted Olivér Várhelyi.
The terrorist orgs are brainwashing their children to be cannon fodder via the social networks.
There's nothing like a top education for your children.
By Ariel Kahana
The commissioner for neighborhood and enlargement says P.A. schools should support peace and coexistence.
FM Cohen called on the EU to immediately adopt the Parliament’s decision and immediately stop funding textbooks full of anti-Semitism and incitement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Everything is aboveboard with the way the Kiryas Joel School District educates Chassidic children with special needs, explains district superintendent Joel Petlin.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“God, or victory, or martyrdom. Forgive me, mother, you're going to be proud of me,” wrote the 13-year-old terrorist who shot 2 people on Saturday.
44% of Haredi parent don't object to their children learning English, as long as it's after school hours.
In addition, Kish is removing all the specially appointed policy makers from the Education Ministry.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Avi Maoz pointed out that teachers hide what they are teaching from the parents, and he plans to make sure parents know what their kids are being exposed to.
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
"Land of Israel studies are disappearing from the academic map in Israel," says Ashkelon Academic College president.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
IMPACT-se discovered that peacemaking was “by far” the top priority discussed in the textbooks that were analyzed.
The program will begin with a pilot for middle-school pupils in the upcoming school year and will expose them to computer science, robotics and other fields, in order to advance technological excellence, and deepen the scientific thinking among Israeli students.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to the Ministry of Education’s outline, the students will learn in half classes for at least two days a week, and the rest of their schooling will continue online.
The move will be accompanied by an increase in the number of (Covid) tests among teaching staff and students.
Hundreds of students and their teachers entered quarantine this week after infected people went to school.
“It is unfortunate that some members of the opposing team disrespected Israel’s national anthem. We are proud to be the only university who sings both the American and Israeli national anthems before every athletic competition and major event,” said Yeshiva University president Ari Berman.
In Efrat, students recreated the Gush Katif human chain protest.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspensions meant that the groups’ privileges were temporarily revoked, including reserving rooms, and putting up posters and tables around campus for other events.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The first recipients of the grant will help strengthen seven small European communities in Helsinki, Finland; Riga, Latvia; Oslo, Norway; and Warsaw, Szczecin and Wroclaw, Poland.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Eligible recipients will each get $50,000 for cameras, security training, door-hardening and other security enhancements.
It is part of a five-year plan to develop the Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem through a massive investment of billions.
By Noa Amouyal
At the Center for Kehilla Development, a Jerusalem-based hub of rabbinic studies, potential rabbis learn how to serve their communities from A-Z
By Sandy Eller
The New York State Education Department issued clarifications to the lengthy, and sometimes, vague educational guidelines it had released on November 20.
By Sandy Eller
While State Orders Private Schools to Beef up Secular Curriculum, Official Regents Data Shows Public Schools Lagging Behind Yeshivas.
By JNi.Media
The university statement said “it is disappointing that a faculty member would allow their personal political beliefs to limit the support they are willing to otherwise provide for our students.
By JNi.Media
“The facts in this case, many of which were disregarded by the previous administration, are troubling.”
By JNi.Media
The new ranking is one spot up from last year, while TAU remains the only non-American university in PitchBook's top ten.
By JNi.Media
"If the academic code of ethics was created for any purpose at all, it was to combat academic boycotts of Israel."
Don’t just get the career, get the career that’s in demand! Here’s why you should apply for a combined business and law degree.
Learn about Israel ScaVentures, the ultimate in interactive and educational learning about the country via sophisticated and well planned guided scaventure hunts. Eve Harow speaks with founder Tali Kaplinski Tarlow today on Rejuvenation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Students from Sharon region are helping excavate Byzantine-era site as part of a local initiative to spark an interest in history among youth.
By JNi.Media
They did not expect the Arab school staff and students to sing the Hatikva, but they could at least respect the national anthem by standing up and not remain seated while the anthem was playing.
By following these helpful tips, you will be one-step ahead and prepared for an exciting, life-changing experience in Israel.
By JNi.Media
The quality of Israel’s education has improved over past two decades, and yet Israel is near the bottom of the developed world, its 8th graders get correct answers on only half their math questions, Israel’s weakest students are also the weakest in the developed world, and Israel’s top students rank only in the bottom third of the developed world.
The Ministry of Education believes there is no justification for 12 years of education.
The Orot Etzion Boys School in Efrat was selected as the best school in Israel this year.
A study found that 54% of Israeli Arabs get their college degrees outside of Israel...
I have fond memories of my trips to Israel with my eighth grade classes for over twenty-five years.
By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
It didn't bother me having new classmates every year. I loved school, was curious, and enjoyed learning everything I could.
We cannot take the next generation’s connection to Judaism or the Jewish people for granted. We must redouble our efforts to advocate for a strong Israel and a strong American Jewish community.
The film Hate Spaces dissects the issue of gross indifference towards American Jews on universities nation-wide.
Schools don’t make financial education a required subject. This episode explains the best ways you can learn about personal finance and how to manage your money.
There are High School programs in Israel that are low-cost and even free.
“To optimize integration within the Israeli society as a whole, our youth centers work to to imbue Ethiopian-Israeli youth with skills and knowledge, together with a sense of pride for their heritage."
The center has always strived to teach people from all walks of life the universal lessons of the Holocaust.
About 60 ministers of education from a range of OECD countries gathered Sunday in Jerusalem for a three-day program to explore Israel’s culture of entrepreneurship.
If one looks at the range of tuition one would have to pay per child, one might get sticker shock. It doesn’t take a genius in math to multiply those figures by 5, or more, children.
Working as a principal, with talented administrators and a dedicated faculty, helped fill the void and ease the loneliness of being a widower.
When you see injustice and lies on your college campuses, what do you do?
It's not clear who is having more fun on this first day of school, the politicians or the students.
Israel's prime minister and education minister agree on the need to instill comprehensive Zionist values in the nation's school curriculum.
By JNi.Media
Bennett pledged that his ministry would combat ethnic discrimination in the enrollment process of all educational institutions, particularly the ultra-Orthodox.
An Israeli delegation of high-school students won two medals on Friday at the International Olympiad in Informatics held in Kazan, Russia.
Thousands of RJJ alumni were, or are still, active in important leadership roles in Jewish life and Jewish communities in the U.S. and Israel.
The Jewish State’s high school delegation took home two medals.
By JNi.Media
July marks the two-year anniversary of the Oregon Jewish Museum's merger with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.
By JNi.Media
“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!
By JNi.Media
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.
By Rachel Moore
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,
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.
By JNi.Media
The parents of said schoolgirls said the gift is offensive to the girls as well as to their families.
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.
By JNi.Media
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.”
By JNi.Media
Hazan's bill has a good chance of becoming a law.
By JNi.Media
According to AMCHA, UC has experienced many incidents of anti-Jewish discrimination this past academic year.
Halacha Education Center introduces new program for over 1,300 students.
Bennett says the move will help narrow the social gap between Arabs and Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
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 each UC campus to “adopt a resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and racism.” The bipartisan measure was introduced by State Senator Jeff Stone (R-Riverside County) follow-ing a series of […]
Vile antisemitism in a school district 90 miles from NYC led to a multi-million dollar settlement.
By JNi.Media
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.
By Rachel Levy
The Shin Bet arrested six Negev Bedouin as budding members of a new ISIS terror cell.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg has donated the foundation carrying his name is donating $100 million towards a $2 billion the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, which is being developed with Israel's Technion University. The new campus is scheduled to open in 2017 and move from the small and temporary location since the Cornell-Technion project […]
Denied her doctorate by the Nazis, 102 year old woman will finally receive it, nearly 80 years later.
The left-wing party's problem is that the ministry spent more money to promote Judaism than democracy.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined in-studio by Momo Lifshitz, the CEO of Lirom Global Education and former director of Oranim Educational Initiatives, the #1 provider of Birthright Israel participants. He shares his dream to bring Jewish and non-Jewish students to study in Israel and get a college degree at a great price, while falling in love with -- and in -- the country. Then, Yishai is joined in-studio by Rabbi Avichai Rontzki, former IDF chief rabbi (2006-2010), with the rank of Brigadier General. During his post, Rontzki carried out a mini-revolution in the command, expanding his mandate to allow for a much more active role of rabbis in the army, and creating the "Jewish Awareness Department," which conducts educational activities in combat units.
Lapid's boasts do not reflect reality.
By Tibbi Singer
UK schools that are found to be ‘indoctrinating pupils about gay people’ will face closing under new rules designed to promote ‘British values,’ the British Government confirmed Monday.
Neither, rain, nor sleet, snow nor Hamas can keep Apple co-founder Wozniak from biting into Israel.
Britain's leadership becomes aware of an Islamist plot to take over the nation's school system.
This massive amount of money is not going towards schools, medical centers, or social programs - just terrorism.
Yiddish words are increasingly seeping into the English language.
By Shalom Bear
Millions of adults in Israel are unusually happy today as 2,129,562 children return to school for the start of the school year.
The moderate Charedi world that I often talk about as the future of mainstream American Orthodoxy - is a beneficiary of the new high school curriculum.
"We believe that every person in Israel must have their fundamental rights met..." Not applicable to terror victims and their families' fundamental right to justice.
Fr. Peter Vasko, President of the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land (FFHL), heralded Pope Francis’ announcement that he may visit the Holy Land next year as an opportunity for the “whole world to see the plight of Christians in the area. Vasko said the pontiff’s presence would also “shine a light on the dwindling […]
Everyone knows that even without Judea and Samaria, the Arab birth rate will make Jews a minority in the future in Israel. Everyone is wrong. But the Haredi population still is growing the fastest.