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IDF & Security / Israel At War: Iron Swords / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Israel Strikes Terrorists Hiding in UN School

By Pesach Benson / TPS

Hamas used the Abu Oraiban School as a hideout and as a point to direct and launch attacks on Israeli soldiers.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Israel At War: Iron Swords / Gaza / Hamas / United Nations (UN)

Training Rifles and UNICEF Donations Found in Gaza Elementary School

By Pesach Benson / TPS

Meanwhile, UN and USAID sacks were being used by Hamas to construct terror tunnels in Gaza.

Police and Crime / Jerusalem / On Campus / Education / Israeli Arabs

Israeli Arab School Set on Fire in Eastern Jerusalem

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The school, which was recently targeted by Arab gunmen, is one of four new institutions that will prepare Arab students for Israeli high school matriculation.

Photo of the Day

Back to School

By Photo of the Day

It's Labor Day Weekend in the US, but in Israel, it's a real holiday as the kids (Baruch Hashem) have gone back to school.

US / The Courts / On Campus / Education / Religion

New Jersey Supreme Court: Religious Schools Have Right to ‘Teachers Who Follow Their Faith’

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“This decision is a victory for all religious schools in the state of New Jersey, but it is especially important for Orthodox Jews,” stated Eric Rassbach of the nonprofit firm Becket.

Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

UNRWA 'Strongly Protested' Tunnel Discovered Under Gaza School

By Pesach Benson / TPS

“A man-made cavity underneath the grounds of an UNRWA school in Gaza” was discovered.

US / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education / Social Media

Security Guard at Columbus Jewish School Arrested for Making Online Antisemitic Threats

By Faygie Levy Holt

According to media reports, Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun with the message, “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”

Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Fayyad Plan

‘Resistance Schools’ – One of the PA’s Most Effective Annexation Tactics, Report Shows

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

In the 12 years since the unveiling of the Fayyad Plan, the PA has built 100 new and illegal schools in Area C.

Terrorism / Palestinian Authority / Europe / United Nations (UN)

In Historical First, European Parliament Condemns UNRWA for Incitement in Teaching Materials

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

An IMPACT-se report showed that PA school textbooks have “consistently shown a systematic insertion of violence, martyrdom and jihad across all grades and subjects.”

Featured / Terrorism / Hezbollah

New Report Exposes Hezbollah Missile Sites Near Beirut Charity-Run Schools

By Yaakov Lappin

The Islamic Shiite Waqf Committee in Burj al Barajneh foundation is suspected of being used to hide ballistic missiles and launch sites, according to the Alma research organization.

Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Israeli Education System Will Fully Open in Yellow and Green Cities

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The move will be accompanied by an increase in the number of (Covid) tests among teaching staff and students.

On Campus / Education / Coronavirus / Sheba Medical Center

Israeli Hospital Creates Unique Program to Keep Schools Open Amid COVID-19

By Sharon Gelbach

The pilot is intended to keep schools open by making them into COVID-free “protective bubbles,”

Israel / Photo of the Day / On Campus / Education

Tel Aviv Mayor Inaugurated the New School Year

By Jewish Press News Desk

The students who arrived in more than 70 elementary and middle schools were greeted by some 200 street performers at the school gates.

Video of the Day

PM Netanyahu's New School Year Message

By Video of the Day

PM Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a personal message to all the students returning to school today in Israel.

Jerusalem / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Jerusalem School Jumps to 12 Confirmed Infected

By Jewish Press News Desk

Over 200 students and staff have gone into quarantine, and 500 students have already been tested, and the rest will be tested next week.

Headline / Israel / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Five Infected in Newly Reopened Rehovot Elementary School

By Jewish Press News Desk

There has been concern that the government reopened the schools too soon due to public pressure.

Israel / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Tel Aviv Family, Rehovot Teachers Infected with Coronavirus

By Jewish Press News Desk

Residents of the neighborhood have been asked to stay home, while people in direct contact with the family have to go into isolation.

Headline / Israel / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

That's It, School is (Mostly) Over in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Excluded from the closures are nursery schools and kindergartens, classes up to 3rd grade, special education, and at-risk schools.

Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs / Coronavirus

Students Ignored Quarantine, Now Eastern Jerusalem Parents Fear Coronavirus

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

Parents in eastern Jerusalem fear that Coronavirus has arrived in the city after a group of 14 girls returned from a trip in northern Italy and did not stay in quarantine.

Israel / Gaza / News Briefs / Islamic Jihad / Rockets from Gaza

Updated: No School on Wednesday

By Jewish Press News Desk

Due to the ongoing rocket attacks by Islamic Jihad, school has been cancelled for the following Israeli cities...

Featured / Headline / US / Anti-Israel NGOs

Durham BDS Activists Employed by Local Synagogues, Federation

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The situation is raising eyebrows about the standards maintained during the hiring and vetting of professionals—or worse, that the federations and synagogues themselves are comfortable with BDS activists teaching at Hebrew schools.

Featured / Government / On Campus / Education / Settlements

Efrat School Receives Prestigious National Education Award

By Jewish Press News Desk

The award was presented by the Minister of Education Naftali Bennett at a special ceremony in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Interviews and Profiles / From the Paper

Looking Out For New York State’s Non-Public School Students: An interview with the OU’s Jake Adler

By Marc Gronich

It’s a struggle year after year for our schools to hire and retain the quality teachers they need.

Lessons In Emunah

The Wrong School

By Penina Pinchasi

I remembered the years of bringing up six teenage daughters. Of course they weren’t all teenagers at the same time but sometimes it definitely felt like it.

Politics / News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / On Campus / Education / Settlements / Canada

Canadian School Rescind Boycott of Israeli Applicants over 'Illegal Settlement Activity'

By JNi.Media

'It’s really sad to hear that a place that takes pride in taking students from across the world would behave like this.'

Israel / US / Politics / News Briefs / Media / Anti-Israel NGOs / On Campus / Education

N. California Conference Prepares High School Students to Combat On-Campus Anti-Semitism, BDS

By JNi.Media

Club Z began as a quick study group for a few teens that wanted to arm themselves with accurate information about Israel and the Middle East conflict.

South Florida

ZOA Honors Scheck Hillel Community School Students

By Shelley Benveniste

The following is an excerpt from the announcement that was made from the podium:

Parenting Our Children

Social Skills In School

By Rifka Schonfeld

In reality, if your child is asking you for help that means that he has not figured out a way to master the situation on his own.

For the Home

How To Send Lunch To School

By Pnina Baim

Guess what! We are going to be making our own lunches, and it will be the best ever.

Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / On Campus / Education

Campus Warrior Tells High School Seniors About College Anti-Semitism

By JNi.Media

"Soon we will each be applying for colleges and we are very concerned by the recent rise in anti-Semitic behavior on campuses across the country. Thanks to today's meeting with Tammi, many of us feel better prepared for what we might encounter."

NY / Politics / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Police Investigate Swastikas on NYC New School Dormitory Doors

By JNi.Media

One student said the experience "felt very violating and personal because it happened in a space where we live, where we hang out, where we sleep."

Op-Eds

A School Named After The Orlando Nightclub Terrorist?

By Stephen M. Flatow

Imagine if the US named a school after a terrorist? Unthinkable, but the PA did and insisted on making a big public show of the fact that it is naming a school after a murderer of Americans.

South Florida

Choosing The Right Middle And High School For Your Daughter

By Dr. Rochelle Brand

Know your child and find a school where she will have a variety of opportunities to shine.

US / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / On Campus / Education

Boulder Prep School Students Expelled for Calls to Execute Jews

By JNi.Media

One entry went: "You can hang Jews on trees, shoot them right in the knees. Gas as many as you please," according to the police report.

For the Home

Preparing Your Child For A Successful School Year

By Pnina Baim

The number one way to avoid many of the typical challenges that could delay a child’s success and growth in the coming years is by utilizing a well-thought out routine.

South Florida

Chabad Chayil’s Free Hebrew School For Dade County

By Shelley Benveniste

Chabad seeks sponsors to subsidize tuition scholarships for families unable to pay.

News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Australia, New Zealand and Oceania / Holocaust

Australian School Apologizes for Student Who Greeted Jewish Visitors Dressed As Hitler

By JNi.Media

"In a busy school, this student did go to a respected staff member said 'is this OK?' and the staff member said 'yes,'" the principal explained.

Photo of the Day

The First Day of School [photos]

By Photo of the Day

It's not clear who is having more fun on this first day of school, the politicians or the students.

Parsha

Life: The School Of Growth

By Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier

By gradually increasing the workload, the body is called upon to respond. The work should never be easy.

Photo of the Day

Almost Back to School

By Photo of the Day

Israeli children start to stock up on school supplies ahead of the beginning of the school year in September.

Op-Eds

The School That Set The Standard For Jewish Education In 20th-Century America

By Rabbi Dr. Jerry Hochbaum

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.

Israel / News Briefs / Archaeology

High School Students Help Discover a Unique 1,600 Year Old Pottery Workshop in the Galilee

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“There is no other known discovery like this. It is simply one of a kind,” said IAA geologist Anastasia Shapiro.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria

Arab Terrorists Shoot at School Bus, Stone Second Bus

By Jewish Press News Desk

This is the second time in the past month that Arab terrorists have targeted the bus driver of a school bus.

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Israeli Elementary School Children Take Pictures from Edge of Space

By JNi.Media

A group of ambitious students and parents from Hod Hasharon last week shot a meteorological balloon 15 miles up, almost reaching the edge of the earth's atmosphere.

Photo of the Day

Purim Began Early This Year

By Photo of the Day

As there's no school on Purim, Israeli schools hold their Purim parties and dress-ups earlier... Photos by Flash90: Yonatan Sindel, Gershon Elinson, Lior Mizrahi

Photo of the Day

Full-Scale Alert

By Photo of the Day

At 10:05 AM, all across Israel, air raid sirens sounded as part of a nationwide drill. Students participated in the Home Front exercise in different ways, from assisting security crews to going into bomb shelter.

Jewish / Politics / UK / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

London Ultra-Orthodox School to Shut Down for Being Too Jewish

By Jewish Press News Desk

The ultra-Orthodox school has the right to appeal the decision but has not yet done so.

Photo of the Day

Tel Aviv Visits Efrat

By Photo of the Day

Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai visited the town of Efrat in Gush Etzion to observe how the town protects its educational centers and students.

Health and Living

Success is within Reach

By Dr. Rinat R. Green

With the right approach, children with dyslexia can soar.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Updated: Jewish Teen Stabs 4 Arab in Dimona "I thought they were terrorists"

By Jewish Press News Desk

Three Arab men were stabbed in Dimona on Friday morning, apparently by a Jewish man.

Photo of the Day

First Day of School

By Photo of the Day

President Ruby Rivlin opened the new school year with new first grade students at the Mamad Shilat school in the Jewish town of Paduel in the Shomron, on September 1, 2015.

Photo of the Day

Children in Bomb Shelters

By Photo of the Day

There was a nationwide missile drill today.

Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Earthquake Preparation Day

By Jewish Press News Desk

If it's not missiles, then it's earthquakes, or at least being prepared for missiles and earthquakes.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs / Intifada

Neglecting Terror Setting Up Eastern Jerusalem Jews for Expulsion

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Benign neglect could be setting up Jews in eastern Jerusalem for “Gush Katif No. 2”

News Briefs / On Campus / Education

8-year-old Struck and Killed by School Bus

By Jewish Press News Desk

An eight year old boy was struck and killed in a parking lot by a school bus Tuesday at Kibbutz Kfar Menachem.

US / News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Local

US School Bars Military Dad - Army Uniform ‘Might Offend’ Students

By Jewish Press Staff

A Michigan high school stopped a military dad from entering the building because his uniform "might offend" some students.

Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Israeli Children, Parents On Gaza Border Start New School Year with Mixed Feelings

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

“I know that you spent your vacation doing things not according to what you planned," the prime minister told students in southern Israel.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

School Rocks in Jabel Mukaber

By Jewish Press News Desk

What is interesting is the latest reason the Arabs are rioting...

Photo of the Day

First Day of School

By Photo of the Day

It's Rosh Chodesh Elul, and that means school has begun in the Chareidi school system.

IDF & Security / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Rockets from Gaza / Israel At War: Operation Protective Edge

20 Dead in Attack on UNRWA School, Source of Fire Unknown

By Rachel Levy

Some 20 people are dead after an attack at the UNRWA school in northern Gaza late Tuesday, but it's not clear who fired at the building.

UK / News Briefs / Islamists

British PM : Check Schools After Islamist Takeover Plot

By Jewish Press News Desk

Britain's leadership becomes aware of an Islamist plot to take over the nation's school system.

Israel / News Briefs

Haifa Selected ‘Smartest’ City in The Middle East

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Haifa was crowned the ‘smartest’ city in the Middle East by the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona.

Israel / News Briefs

Air Raid Drill Sirens Sound Nationwide

By Shalom Bear

A nationwide air raid drill was run today, so the schools will be prepared for missiles from Iran, Gaza or the Palestinian Authority.

News Briefs / Europe / Russia

Teacher and Policeman Killed in Moscow School Shooting Spree

By Jewish Press News Desk

A student killed one policeman, a biology teacher, shot and wounded another policeman and took 20 pupils hostage before police overcame and arrested him Sunday in the northern end of Moscow. "The person who took 20 people and a teacher hostage is a student in the upper classes at the same school," an interior ministry […]

Ear to the Ground

Aliyah and the Gifted Child

By Varda Meyers Epstein

"Everything we have done and learned regarding the gifted students has also come from speaking to more experienced Olim, not through the system."

Op-Eds

Does It Bother You when your Kid Comes Home Feeling like Junk?

By Bezalel Perlman

Response to Rabbi Wallerstein's Agudah convention speech.

Terrorism / Hamas / News Briefs

20% of Hamas Budget for Terror Tunnels

By Jewish Press News Desk

This massive amount of money is not going towards schools, medical centers, or social programs - just terrorism.

Israel / News Briefs

Students, Leave Your Gas Masks Home

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Israeli Ministry of Education announced on Saturday evening that students should not take their gas masks to school, and classes will run as usual. The Ministry said they are in constant contact with the relevant security forces, and is following their directives to provide a secure learning environment.

News Briefs

YU Sex Abuse Extended beyond Boys High School

By JTA

Incidents of physical and sexual abuse at Yeshiva University were not limited to its high school for boys, an investigation has found. The investigation commissioned by the university and carried out by the New York-based law firm Sullivan & Cromwell followed reports of sexual abuse by two faculty members at Y.U.’s high school for boys […]

Israel

School Starts in Israel

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.

Rubin Reports

American Culture: How to Reconcile the Brutal and the Effete?

By Barry Rubin

I sat there speechless. I simply couldn't believe what I was hearing.

News Briefs

Jewish Agency Hands Gondar School to Ethiopia

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky handed Getnet Amare, the mayor of Gondar, Ethiopia, the keys to the school that had prepared thousands of Jewish Ethiopian children for their subsequent immigration to Israel through education in math, physics, computers and English. In a ceremony on Monday, the Jewish Agency donated all the school buildings and equipment […]

Marriage and Relationships

Bullying Must End!

By Dr. Yael Respler

There is a huge difference between standing up for oneself and retaliating against others.

Emes Ve-Emunah

When Good Children Go OTD

By Harry Maryles

I know families with an OTD child that are very right wing, moderate Charedi, and right wing Modern Orthodox.

IDF Blog

Meet a 19-Year-Old Explosives Expert

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

She teaches all things explosive: from how to handle the explosives themselves to utilizing them in operations, such as gaining access to buildings.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Census Debunks Arab Demographic Threat

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

Sponsored Posts

Following a Passion for Sports to Israel

By Jewish Press Staff

In Israel, a new five month scholarship program being offered to young aspiring athletes - one of them could be you.

America's Rabbi / Shmuley Boteach

An American Tragedy in Steubenville

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The greatest tragedy made manifest in Steubenville is the attitude of teenage men toward girls.

Emes Ve-Emunah

A Time for Zero Tolerance and a Time for Tolerance

By Harry Maryles

When it comes to victims of abuse the overriding approach should be one of compassion and understanding. But school officials' mishandling of a situation should not automatically result in termination.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Achdus with Chabad

By Harry Maryles

Despite Chabad’s success in spreading Torah, they are not really integrated with the rest of Orthodoxy.

US / News Briefs

Horror in Connecticut

By Jewish Press News Desk

A madman shot up a Connecticut kindergarten killing 26 people, among them 20 children.

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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