Jewish students

Educators must light the way to root out antisemitism - opinion

To make meaningful change, education must be a key component of the solution.

People stand near flowers laid as a tribute at Bondi Beach to honour the victims of a mass shooting that targeted a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday, in Sydney, Australia, December 16, 2025.
DePaul university student Max Long

Jewish students at DePaul continue to face threats after violent campus attack - interview

 Protesters hold Palestinian flags during a rally to call for a ceasefire, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 9, 2024.

Canadian NDP leader condemns IDF veteran lecture tour, draws criticism for overlooking violence

Boys in the hallway at Jewish day school

Why Jewish studies students aren’t talking about Israel or antisemitism - opinion


Jewish parent threatens to burn down son's school over mask policy

After a parent at a Miami Jewish school said he would burn the school down, his ten-year-old son was expelled and he was ultimately arrested.

 Children wear a masks and wait for US President Joe Biden to visit her pre-Kindergarten class at East End Elementary School to highlight the early childhood education proposal in his Build Back Better infrastructure agenda in North Plainfield, New Jersey, US October 25, 2021.

New Matan fellowship empowers female scholars to publish books of Torah scholarship  

The Kitvuni fellowship will be directed by Dr. Yael Ziegler, Matan’s Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director.

 Women studying at Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies in Jerusalem.

New web platform looks to rethink pluralistic Jewish education

Meet Truvie, a new platform offering virtual Jewish education experiences, such as Minecrafting a Sukkah and virtual guitar jam circles.

CHILDREN PLAY in a classroom at Hand in Hand, a mixed Jewish-Arab kindergarten, in Jaffa.

Mosaic United to donate $23m. for Jewish campus programs

Jerusalem-based initiative Mosaic United and its partners committed to providing USD $23 million to 400 schools to fund Jewish student programming for the sixth year in a row.

Students celebrate Hanukkah at the University of Florida Hillel, a partner of Mosaic United.

Jewish schools in London shaken by allegations of sexual abuse

These allegations, which include rape, assault and harassment, make grim reading for Britain’s two most prestigious and largest Jewish schools: JFS and the Jewish Community Secondary School.

A view inside the Jewish Community Secondary School in North London. The school was allegedly the site of 14 incidents of sexual misconduct.

Antisemitic incidents in US third highest on record despite lockdowns

The total number of incidents decreased by 4% in 2020, likely due to the closure of educational institutions and synagogues, as well as a decrease in commuting.

(From right to left) Congressman Gregory Meeks; Governor Andrew Cuomo, UJA CEO Eric Goldstein; Senator Chuck Schumer; Mayor Bill DeBlasio; US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand; JCRC CEO Michael Miller; and New York State Attorney General Letitia James march against antisemitism across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jewish schools focus on anti-racist education with new initiative

Many of the school’s 900 or so students, including a few who are Black, were asking questions about police brutality and systemic racism in American society.

Jewish day schools have increasingly diverse student bodies, including at the Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills, California.

Jewish studies just as important as secular studies - opinion

If yeshiva students are “functionally illiterate” in secular studies, many secular students in public schools have little knowledge of Judaism and are “functionally illiterate” in Jewish studies.

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New Jewish studies program launches at large Frankfurt university

The new program is named for Buber and his colleague Franz Rosenzweig, who together established the Free Jewish Teaching House in Frankfurt.

Worshipers in Frankfurt synagogue