Jewish education

Jewish education organization targets program at adults with intellectual disabilities

The program, called What’s Mine is Yours: Jewish Adult Learning for All., aims to provide Jewish academic resources for adults with disabilities, who have few options for Jewish educations.

GRADUATES FROM a What's Mine is Yours class at Keshet in Chicago.
People charge their devices, eat and warm themselves at a mobile resilience hub set up in a residential district amid electricity and heating interruptions on Jan. 20, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

After 4 years of war, Ukraine’s Jews adapt to a life of sirens, shortages and uncertainty

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Elite South African school apologizes over refusal to play Jewish day school at fixture

'In the Diaspora we need to continue with Jewish education.’ Tal Ben-Shahar at the Yael Awards in Vienna earlier this month.

Teaching Jewish happiness after October 7: An educator's fresh approach to Jewish pride


Jewish schools, families poised for windfall under new federal tax-credit program

The $1,700 federal tax credit to support private school tuition delivers a long-sought victory to Orthodox Jewish advocacy groups and other religious education proponents.

Orthodox Jewish children get off a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn in response to a measles outbreak, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, US, April 9, 2019.

The many faces of Shavuot harvest, revelation, and tradition

The Torah is described as the Tree of Life, and there is a legend that Mount Sinai once was a “green mountain” covered with trees and shrubs.

 Another biblical name for Shavuot is Yom HaBikkurim (Day of the First Fruits), referring to the joyful pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where the Israelites offered up baskets of their first ripe fruits and bread baked from the newly harvested wheat.

How can we connect and nurture Jewish communities outside of major cities? - opinion

When Jews living in small, rural, and remote communities don’t feel connected to the larger community, they are often left with a worrying sense of alienation.

 CONGREGATION B’ER CHAYIM in Cumberland, Maryland, is one of the 10 oldest to be continuously used in the US, the writer notes.

Jewish schools around the world face historic opportunity amid enrollment wave - opinion

The power of the Jewish education system is being revealed. Jewish schools, where hundreds of thousands of Jewish children around the world currently study, have become an anchor.

 View of an empty classroom at a school in Givatayim, during a teacher's strike, on May 6, 2025

The magic of learning Torah together: Reshaping 21st-century Jewish learning - opinion

Judaism isn’t just transmitted from one generation to the next passively, it is transformative, especially when learned with a partner

 Aish, Partners in Torah and Jewish learning on Tiktok and Instagram

Parental interest in Jewish school enrollment surged since Oct. 7, study finds

The UnitEd study also found that Jewish schools around the world have experienced new and complex challenges since October 7 which many report feeling unprepared for. 

  A school bus is seen in Brooklyn in New York, United States of America, on July 4th, 2024.

Yael Foundation CEO Chaya Yosovich to deliver wake-up call on Jewish education at JPost conference

“Antisemitism must be fought, but Jewish identity must be fortified," says Yosovich, calls for greater investment in formal and non-formal programs.

 Yael Foundation CEO Chaya Yosovich

This Jewish New Yorker survived the Holocaust and the Hungarian Revolution, and is still helping

Holocaust survivor Susan Kalev reflects on her journey from Budapest to New York, her family’s struggles, and her mission to share her story.

 Susan Kalev at her Washington Heights home.

The Jewish Future slate offers a unifying vision for zionism in World Zionist Congress elections

Focused on youth, education, and connection to Israel, The Jewish Future invites all Zionists to help shape a proud, shared future.

Strengthening Zionist youth movements will ensure a thriving, secure, and proud Jewish future.

Prizmah Jewish Day Schools propel Jewish story of Passover forward - opinion

'When you know who you are, you can be anything' is the central idea of the new promotional campaign by Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools.

 Mock Seder at The Epstein School in Atlanta, NJ.