Education
“Today is a great day for Oklahoma families,” said Jason Bedrick of Heritage Foundation.
“Parents know what is best for their children. They don’t need others telling them what to do,” said community activist Rabbi Asher Gratt.
The Jewish state still places above the global average.
New president of American Friends of Hebrew University is herself a student
Pamela Nadler Emmerich was recently inspired to go back to school to pursue another master’s and a doctorate.
Nearly 100 groups are pushing the American Anthropological Association to reject a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
Yeshiva and Touro universities, Mount Sinai and Albert Einstein, however, slipped in quite a few overall and specialty categories.
Israelis and residents of 14 states came to Chicago for the inaugural four-day program sponsored by the Melton School of Adult Learning.
“Almost everywhere I go, I see how much it is being used and also expanded upon,” Sara Wolkenfeld told JNS.
“The ‘Times’ plays fast and loose with the facts, relies on innuendo and repeatedly violates its own professed journalistic standards,” the publication records.
The texts inform about Jewish women philanthropists, Roman roads and the impact of the Bar Kokhba War, says professor Michael Satlow, who directs the project.
Brandeis improved its MBA rankings, but it and Touro University California dropped elsewhere, while Yeshiva University didn’t even meet the threshold to be ranked.
School-choice legislation passes South Carolina vote, heads to the governor
Jason Bedrick, an education policy researcher, also cited similar developments in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
