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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

education

Prof. Michael Feuer speaking at the 2024 International Education Conference in Tel Aviv, on November 25, 2024. (Sharon Eliasi/ courtesy)
November 26, 2024, 10:17 am
US dean of education defends campus diversity training, seeks more inclusivity for Jews
Michael J. Feuer of George Washington University, visiting Israel for an educational conference, weighs in on the wartime campus protest movements and Trump’s plans for the US
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative: A Palestinian class at the Salem School, East Jerusalem, December 6, 2017. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
November 5, 2024, 6:21 pm
Knesset passes law allowing government to fire teachers it asserts identify with terror
Right-wing MKs call new law an important tool in preventing radicalization; rights group ACRI says it ‘violates the rights to expression, employment and pedagogical autonomy’
By Sam Sokol
Palestinian children salvage items from garbage in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, September 30, 2024. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
October 1, 2024, 12:08 am
UNICEF says war has deprived Gazan children of education, food
Spokesman describes ‘extreme impact,’ recalls child telling him of uncle’s horrific death, ‘saying things that a 10-year-old should not tell you’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Displaced kids sort through trash at a street in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, August 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
September 7, 2024, 9:39 pm
Gaza approaches second year without schooling, with heavy cost for kids’ futures
Aid groups attempt ‘back to learning’ programs, but struggle to import school supplies as food and medicine take precedence
By AP and ToI Staff
The interior of Emet Classical Academy on New York's Upper East Side, where Greek and Roman philosophers, George Washington, modular tables, and western cities dominate the aesthetics. (Courtesy Emet Classical Academy via JTA)
August 31, 2024, 3:37 pm
In NYC, Jewish school with focus on West’s achievements to open with 40 students
Tikvah Fund launches Emet Classical Academy, which eschews ‘woke’ educational values, as many Jews are disillusioned with progressive spaces often seen as less welcoming to them
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, accompanied by Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, right, reads a book to children at People Helping People, a shelter for families experiencing homelessness in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 29, 2019. (AP/Jim Mone)
August 9, 2024, 4:11 am
Lauded by former students, Tim Walz wrote his master’s thesis on Holocaust education
Before entering politics, the Minnesota governor was a beloved teacher with focus on genocide studies; participated in US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s first conference for educators
By Andrew Lapin
Students arrive at a school in central Jerusalem, on April 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 22, 2024, 8:06 am
Dilemmas abound as school system works to help students process Oct. 7 and horrors of war
The Israel-Hamas conflict has taken up nearly the entire school year, which finishes at the end of next month, but some educators see an opportunity to ‘reset’ the education system
By Gavriel Fiske
A worker rests as displaced Palestinians receive food aid at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2024. (AFP)
April 24, 2024, 3:23 pm
Germany to resume funding for UNRWA after probe
Europe’s biggest economy announces it will once again cooperate with Palestinian refugee agency, citing probe that found Israeli claims against group lacked evidence
By AFP and ToI Staff
The Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. (Museum of Jewish Heritage/John Halpern via JTA)
April 2, 2024, 6:11 am
NY’s Museum of Jewish Heritage aims to help teachers nip student antisemitism in the bud
A newly-released online resource compiles commonly asked questions about Jews and Jew-hatred to teach empathy and inoculate middle and high schoolers against online propaganda
By Cathryn J. Prince
Shelly Weiss (Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))
February 27, 2024, 3:16 pm
Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77
Weiss put aside her career in social work and health administration to found and promote multiple organizations supporting the LGBTQ community
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
IDF soldiers operate at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City overnight in a handout photo distributed on November 15, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 15, 2023, 1:44 pm
Daily Briefing Nov 15: Day 40 – IDF controls north Gaza, above ground; enters Shifa
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the large Shifa hospital compound and why the war is still far from over; senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on yesterday’s March for Israel rally
By ToI Staff
A tunnel shaft found by IDF forces leading to underneath Gaza City's Rantisi Hospital, in a photo released by the military on November 13, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 14, 2023, 2:27 pm
Daily Briefing Nov 14: Day 39 – IDF uncovers Hamas warren under Gaza children’s hospital
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren on a hostage who gave birth in captivity; reporter Gavriel Fiske on pop-up schools for displaced Israeli kids, and US cowboys in the wild West Bank
By ToI Staff
Students ask questions of 'Dimensions in Testimony' eyewitness holograms, part of a partnership between USC Shoah Foundation and the nonprofit Common Circles, White Plains Middle School, New York, June 1, 2023 (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)
August 25, 2023, 5:00 pm
Back to school: Exhibits custom-tailored for US pupils make Holocaust a local issue
Launched last winter, nonprofit ‘Common Circles’ fights antisemitism by designing ‘museum-like experiences’ with high-tech Holocaust education, art, and storytelling
By Matt Lebovic
American author Bernard Malamud, author of 'The Fixer,' in August 1980. (Nancy R. Schiff/Getty Images via JTA)
August 19, 2023, 3:23 am
How a US school district put a contested Bernard Malamud classic back on the shelves
On an oft-unseen battlefield of the culture war over books in states and school districts around the country, there are panels of judges that may feel more like a book club
By Andrew Lapin
Dr. Dalia Fadila receives Presidential Medal of Honor from President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, December 2022. (Screen grab)
August 5, 2023, 9:37 am
Visionary educator Dalia Fadila, Presidential Medal of Honor winner, drowns at 51
Groundbreaking founder of Arab educational and youth networks dies at Herzliya beach; last year Herzog said she built initiatives ‘in places where others had already given up’
By ToI Staff
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