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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

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Naftuli Moster, then-executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Yaffed, speaks at a news conference, July 24, 2019. (Yaffed via JTA)
Interview
Once the poster child of the US yeshiva reform movement, Naftuli Moster now has regrets
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The founder of Yaffed, a group decrying lack of secular education in Haredi schools, is having a reckoning fueled by distrust of progressive politics and concern for his former community
Naftuli Moster, then-executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Yaffed, speaks at a news conference, July 24, 2019. (Yaffed via JTA)
June 20, 2025, 4:38 pm
Once the poster child of the US yeshiva reform movement, Naftuli Moster now has regrets
The founder of Yaffed, a group decrying lack of secular education in Haredi schools, is having a reckoning fueled by distrust of progressive politics and concern for his former community
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walk out in protest of antisemitic incidents at the Los Angeles school on February 27, 2024. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images via JTA)
June 4, 2025, 12:55 am
Ethnic studies compromise opens door to broader antisemitism legislation in California
Jewish groups don’t want Jews painted unfairly or Israel singled out in a new curriculum mandate. Now, several racial caucuses may be willing to help
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Women pushing strollers walk past the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/ Getty Images via AFP)
May 25, 2025, 5:06 pm
School vouchers would expand across US under federal proposal cheered by Orthodox groups
Trump’s tax and spending cut bill currently offers $5,000 per student to attend Jewish schools and yeshivas as the initiative moves closer to implementation than ever before
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Researcher Maor Kaplan. (Jonathan Bloom)
March 24, 2025, 10:50 am
Poll showing religious teens are sexually active sparks rethink of when to have the talk
High numbers of students in religious Zionist schools, where sex education is often an afterthought, are having sex with their peers, including those in gender-segregated settings
By Rossella Tercatin
BioCatch employees volunteer with Israeli nonprofit Heroes for Life. (Courtesy)
February 9, 2025, 7:51 pm
Israeli tech donates stock options amid war to aid national recovery
Nonprofit Tmura seeks donations of small stakes in startups and then, when they become valuable, uses the cash to fund youth and education; looks to expand model to US investors
By Sharon Wrobel
People inspect the damage following an Israeli strike on the UNRWA Al-Majda Wasila Governmental School housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City after the IDF said it found Hamas operatives inside the building, on December 14, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
January 7, 2025, 2:41 am
American Historical Association resolution condemns Israeli ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza
Motion, opposed by some leading figures in the AHA, now goes to Council for approval or rejection
By ToI Staff
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/ File)
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
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