Jewish Education
“Toward the Horizon of Palestine” began airing on IRIB’s Ofogh channel in the days after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
At Shapell’s Darche Noam yeshivah, immigrants tell Mayor Moshe Lion that text-based Jewish learning in Jerusalem builds skills, community and purpose.
Kestenbaum and Company is also selling a copy of the “Jew Bill,” which finally gave Maryland Jews equal rights to Christians in 1826.
Participants at the first World Jewish-Zionist Youth Congress draft a charter and elect a council to connect young Jewish leaders worldwide.
“It would be very easy” to conclude from a floor speech by Sen. Chris Coons that “Jews in the first century only helped and supported their own,” the scholar Malka Simkovich told JNS.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) responded that “it’s not a coincidence” that New Yorkers discovered the antisemitic images the day after election results.
Since Oct. 7, “there’s much greater interest in how scholars function and the internal debates that go on in academia,” the Center for Jewish History president told JNS.
The discovery is a “powerful testament to Jewish settlement in the Golan more than 1,500 years ago, during a period when Jewish life flourished in the region,” said archaeologist Dror Ben-Yosef.
“Our hope is that they will continue investing in all children’s education, whether they attend public, charter, Jewish, faith-based or otherwise,” Sydney Altfield, of the Orthodox Union Teach Coalition, told JNS.
“I chose to write about Ezra and Nehemiah because of all the biblical works of Tanach. It resonates most with the times we are living through,” Yael Leibowitz said.
The state’s Eucation Department acted “contrary to law” when it decided that noncompliant schools ceased being schools, judge Richard McNally wrote.
“We are experiencing a deplorable escalation of antisemitism across southern California,” Peter Levi, of the ADL, told JNS.
