A first-of-its-kind national school voucher program is being hailed by some Jewish groups as a breakthrough — and mourned by others as a hammer blow to the separation of church and state. The ...

I’m sitting at the dining room table doing my Spanish homework while my mother sits across from me, tackling a daunting task: studying for her bat mitzvah. This scene is part of our weekly routine in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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JERUSALEM (RNS) — Once men and women take the same exam, ‘every community can decide for themselves what kind of teacher or leadership model they want,’ said Michelle Shelemay Dvir, a religious ...

From a bar mitzvah in Jerusalem to Friday nights at Chabad at Emory, Joshua Glazer shares his journey of finding God through ...

Winsor expressed worry earlier this week that a tax-funded focus on Christianity in public schools could isolate Jewish students in the classrooms. "Our issue is when you teach the principles of the ...

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 ...