Jewish Education
“The world has lost a great man and a great scholar,” wrote Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Libraries at University of Oxford.
“Everyone wants to do something,” says the head of a Jewish day school in San Diego, which has partnered with an Israeli school near the border with Gaza that was attacked.
The 320 anti-Jewish incidents from Oct. 7 to Oct. 16 are up from 47 during the same period in 2022, though these numbers almost certainly undercount anti-Jewish incidents.
Leaders of the London school are taking “proactive steps” to protect students, faculty and staff following Hamas’s deadly terrorist attacks in Israel.
“With antisemitism bubbling to the surface,” an executive of the publisher told JNS, “this book asks us again: What kind of Canada do we want to be?”
The Torah scroll, from Adas Israel Congregation, is on permanent loan to the new Jewish museum.
Its 63 students are encouraged to enroll at the Rodeph Sholom School.
Eleven facilities got the maximum amount, $150,000, under the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.
“Jewish Space Lasers” explains the demonization of an 18th-century European banking family.
The exhibition at YIVO tells the history of Holy Land Yiddish, which was largely lost with Israel’s rebirth and the revival of Hebrew.
The works, which are fragments and date from the 10th to 12th centuries, will be housed at the university’s Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Today’s threats by enemies have evolved from large tank and infantry formations to large-scale projectile attacks on cities.
