Education
Michael Schill called it quits as the private university faces a $790 million funding freeze, following allegations by the Trump administration that it allowed Jewish students to be harassed.
A spokeswoman for the public school told JNS that it “fundamentally opposes academic boycotts of any kind.”
“No student should feel like they must risk their safety to exercise their First Amendment rights to peacefully assemble and freely practice their religion,” wrote Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick.
Jonathan Davis, head of the Raphael Recanati International School, said that even in the midst of the war with Hamas, enrollment remains steady.
A spokesman for the House committee told JNS that “outside groups” that celebrated Oct. 7 are partnering with local schools.
“Anyone who considers themself a genocide scholar should feel embarrassed by this vote,” said Sara E. Brown, a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Almost two years after being uprooted from their homes, children in northern Israeli are finally returning to classrooms.
Pupils evacuated during Israel’s multi-front war returned to school in their home communities in the “Gaza Envelope” and northern Israel.
Rising prices force many families to pack less healthy, less varied school lunches, with cost now the top factor for one in three parents.
“Very few kids feel poignant insecurity or a sense of threat that we felt a year ago,” Justin Resnick, a psychologist in private practice, tells JNS.
Dana Stangel-Plowe told JNS that “too often, students don’t realize that they’re being given a teacher’s worldview instead of multiple perspectives.”
“It was shocking to see this incessant focus by the MTA on attacking and demonizing Israel and even Jews,” Susan Tuchman, of the ZOA, told JNS.
