Jewish day school

Jewish day school enrollment rising across denominations

One report found that non-Orthodox school enrollment has increased by 3% from 2021 to 2024, while Orthodox schools have seen a 7% increase.

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An Israel Independence Day celebration at a North American Jewish day school.

Meeting today’s urgent need for Jewish community and identity - opinion

A view of Immanuel College in 2010

Top British private Jewish school closing amid funding challenges

Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on January 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City.

Backers of Jewish school file federal lawsuit challenging Oklahoma ban on religious charter schools


Amid coronavirus, a rabbi and dad is starting an online Jewish day school

Yesod represents one of countless efforts by enterprising parents trying to manage uncertainty around schooling that would have been unimaginable just six months ago.

Parents' response to the uncertainty and danger around school attendance now includes a new effort to create an online Jewish day school.

Marvin Schick, longtime advocate for Jewish day schools, dies at 85

A vocal advocate of Jewish education, Schick conducted a number of comprehensive studies of day schools on behalf of the Avi Chai Foundation, most recently in 2014.

All boys who attend the day school are required to wear kippot and there is a conservative school uniform, including skirts for girls

Coronavirus: Philadelphia Jewish day school art center makes face shields

Since starting production last week, the school in Merion Station has made about 200 shields for distribution to doctors and nurses in the community. Now it’s ramping up production to produce that ma

A member of medical staff swaps a Palestinian worker for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing, upon his return from Israel, outside the Israeli-controlled Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 26, 2020

NY Jewish schools turn to virtual learning during coronavirus closures

Local parent: Antisemites are already blaming the Jews for the local outbreak

One of SAR's Zoom sessions Thursday morning included guitar music

Independent Jewish day school in Connecticut to close down

Carmel Academy announced its closure, citing the “current realities of finances and enrollment.”

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5 innovative ways Jewish day schools are reducing tuition costs

At some schools in the New York-New Jersey area, where most U.S. Jewish day school students are located, annual tuition fees of $30,000 in high school and $20,000 in elementary school are not unusual

Kasowitz presenting LEGO bricks to Jewish school children

FBI: New details on day school admin charged with child pornography

Rabbi Jonathan Skolnick was arrested Friday night on several charges, including the production and possession of child pornography and child enticement.

Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico

NY Jewish day school admin arrested for ‘production of child pornography’

Stanley Rosenfeld, now 84, who has admitted to abusing hundreds of boys throughout his lifetime, worked as an assistant principal at SAR in the 1970s and also taught English there a decade later.

Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico

7 men sue 2 NY Jewish day schools for alleged abuse by former teacher

Both suits are being filed under the New York Child Victims Act, which went into effect last month.

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