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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 489

adult education

Rabbi Shai Piron in his Lod office, on November 17, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
December 6, 2024, 5:51 am
Former minister talks ‘deep crisis’ in education and how Israel can dig itself out
Rabbi Shai Piron, in new role as president of the Israel Professional College in Jerusalem, stresses importance of vocational training in the 21st century job market
By Gavriel Fiske
Retired seniors have so much expertise to pass on, says Esther Hershcovich, an immigrant to Israel from Canada, who is launching the SAGE platform. (Zinkevych/iStock/Getty Images)
March 25, 2020, 4:49 pm
Israeli app taps the wisdom of elders for those stuck at home
Esther Hershcovich designed her English-language site while in COVID-19 quarantine. ‘Elderly have so much to teach. We have so much to learn, and now we have the time’
By Sue Surkes
Barnard College graduates beam at the Columbia University commencement ceremony in New York, May 18, 2016. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
January 22, 2019, 5:05 pm
Most Israelis don’t want non-Jewish migrants, even if they are highly skilled
Pew poll of 12 developed countries shows Israel and Italy only places where majority opposes immigration of those with advanced degrees
By Melanie Lidman
James A. White, who is serving a life sentence in prison in Vacaville, California established a community college program for fellow inmates. (Courtesy of J. The Jewish News of Northern California/via JTA)
August 29, 2018, 4:49 am
Jewish inmate credits local paper as parole board backs commuting life sentence
James A. White Jr. was originally sentenced to die behind bars, but an inmate college program he founded boasting over 1,500 graduates to date could be the key to his release
By Maya Mirsky
Patrons eat at a communal table in the Soul Cafe in West Bloomfield, Michigan. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
November 20, 2017, 5:08 am
Feed body and soul at Detroit’s kosher restaurant-art gallery combo
At the Soul Cafe and Soul Studio in Detroit, young adults with special needs learn the skills they need to go out into the world
By Yaakov Schwartz
Joshua O. Haberman. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 26, 2017, 11:29 pm
Rabbi Joshua Haberman, champion of adult Jewish education, dies at 98
Washington, DC rabbi is remembered for bringing ‘the light of Torah to countless followers’ during his 72-year rabbinic career
By JTA
Cleaners at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon attend ERETZ Hebrew class, January 2017. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
February 10, 2017, 4:17 am
No Hebrew, no problem: Nonprofit teaches illiterate workers while on the job
Led by idealistic professor, college student volunteers instruct hospital and university cleaners in basic Hebrew, English and math
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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