I’m sitting at the dining room table doing my Spanish homework while my mother sits across from me, tackling a daunting task: ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Florida-based Jewish charter school foundation has told the Statewide Charter School Board it plans to apply for authorization ...
Each year, when we read the sections of the Torah that describe the building of the Mishkan, the portable Tabernacle, many ...
For most of the year, Rabbi David Kasher grew up “as a regular American kid,” spending the school year with his hippie mother in Oakland. But summers were spent with his religious father in Brooklyn. ...
Months after a Supreme Court deadlock blocked an attempt by a Catholic church to create the nation’s first openly religious, publicly funded charter school, a Jewish group is now advancing a similar ...
This project focused on the distinctive forms of Jewish learning that can occur when individuals and groups experience the cultural arts. Learning in cultural arts contexts is a broad field of inquiry ...
OKLAHOMA — A group seeking to open a virtual Jewish charter school in Oklahoma is once again testing whether religious public schools violate the U.S. Constitution, an issue that has already been ...
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Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, Ph.D., a Reform rabbi, biblical scholar and educator who helped shape generations of Jewish clergy through her work at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and who ...
As newly ordained rabbi Louisa Solomon crunched the numbers on her new Jewish education project, she encountered a good problem: Too many people wanted to attend. “People just started coming up to me ...