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Elizabeth Kratz

Elizabeth Kratz is associate publisher and editor of The Jewish Link of New Jersey and The Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut.

“The Jewish community stood up and showed we are not going to be intimidated,” said Steve Fox, president of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Teaneck, N.J.
While explaining its unique, immersive version of Israel and Zionist education, Eitan Goldstein, director and spokesman for Habonim Dror North America, was exceedingly clear on one point: “Israel’s right to self-determination remains affixed in our ideology and how we educate.”
An ongoing discussion of how to present the nuances of Israel education at summer camps and to Jewish youth groups.
It will continue to reinforce pro-Zionist, pro-Israel perspectives at its summer camps, despite a request to push the Palestinian narrative.
In recent years, Orthodox women have sought a greater voice in Torah scholarship and learning, prompting the OU to fund a number of Women’s Initiative Challenge Grants to meet growing communal needs.
Meet Rabbi Menachem Bombach, 41, the founder of Torah Academy-Midrasha Chasidit, a new yeshivah system in Israel focused on reducing poverty in the haredi community through education.
“Honoring the memory of terrorists who seek to destroy Israel, which is the United States’ sole democratic ally in the Middle East, is reprehensible, and smacks of anti-Israel animus and anti-Semitism,” said Farley Weiss, president of the National Council of Young Israel.
With competitors from more than 60 countries, the Chidon HaTanach is the ultimate Jewish trivia game that makes the oldest book in the world entertaining and engaging. It’s a test of skill, memorization and comprehension.
In New York state, private schools receive less than 1 percent of state funding, even though parents who opt to send their children there pay the same taxes as public-school parents.