Until now, only Orthodox Jewish men in Israel have been allowed to take exams to become rabbis. After a long campaign, women ...
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. ...
(JTA) — 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 ...
As the academic year ends and children anticipate summer break, another type of education often comes into focus for Jewish families. Fall registration is now open for supplemental religious school, ...
For sixth-grade students at Temple Sinai of Roslyn, learning about the Holocaust this spring extended far beyond dates and ...
A proposed Jewish charter school in Oklahoma faces legal battles and community pushback over public funding for religious ...
Jewish girl Me-Me introduces us to the Bat Mitzvah ceremony as she prepares to become a ‘Daughter of the Law’, learning to ...
Religious switching into and out of Judaism is rare in Israel, the only country where Jews are a majority of the population. Fewer than 1% of Israelis who were raised Jewish say they belong to a ...
Shavuot may not be the most prominent Jewish festival, but it captures something essential: the belief that education is sacred, and that Judaism survives because each generation continues to engage ...
Almost one in four U.S. adults raised Jewish do not identify as religiously Jewish anymore, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. The study, published Wednesday, surveyed “religious ...