Education
Jewish day schools were quick to pivot from a traditional in-class setting to online classrooms, and as the academic year winds down, they are taking stock of where they stand, what they have accomplished and how to move ahead in a COVID-19 world.
Students engage in talks with professors, policy experts, writers and rabbis, who share experiences and wisdom with the hope that participants can apply the lessons to their own lives.
Drafted by Club Z members from across the country, the idea was included in a report sent to the California Department of Education, U.S. Department of Education and California Legislative Jewish Caucus.
10,000 Israelis quarantined, 43 schools closed following COVID-19 spike
As the number of fresh cases continues to rise, health and education officials consider shuttering the school system for the rest of the academic year.
Thousands of Israeli students quarantined after COVID-19 cases found in schools
Jerusalem, Hadera and Beersheva shutter schools after a rash of new cases, raising concerns over a “second wave” of the outbreak.
The organization combines science and technology with strengthened Jewish identity, bridging the gap between ability and opportunity.
Coronavirus cases in Israeli schools force students, staff into quarantine
More than 100 children and staff were sent into isolation after COVID-19 cases are confirmed in multiple schools throughout the country, just days after classrooms are reopened.
The European Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, B’nai B’rith and Simon Wiesenthal Center spoke out against the course.
After the United States, China is Israel’s second-largest trading partner with $11.9 billion in bilateral trade annually.
Israeli schools back to ‘new normal’ amid strict COVID-19 regulations
One million students returned to their classrooms on Sunday, with the rest of the country’s elementary, middle and high schools slated to resume operations by the end of the week.
The online initiative was likened to “a Nazi lecturing against racism or a member of the Ku Klux Klan speaking on racial persecution.”
The discovery of the coin, said to be the only one from the era bearing the name “Jerusalem” to have been discovered in the ancient city, was announced in honor of the upcoming Lag B’Omer holiday.
