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September 4, 2017, 2:21 pm
Let’s teach our kids to read
Children practice English and math skills over and over again; why is Torah taught so differently?
By Deborah Klapper
September 4, 2017, 12:05 pm
Working parents and affordable childcare
How Israeli workplace trends complicate a work/parent balance, even now that the school year has started
By Tamar Friedman Wilson
September 1, 2017, 4:03 pm
Inclusion is for the brave — and stupid
Mainstreaming is often the best 'special education' for kids like hers, so why does Israel presume it's doomed to fail?
By Nicole Jansezian
A library full of books, similar to Bashaer Othman's vision for Allar's library (photo credit: Flash90)
August 22, 2017, 12:39 pm
Jerusalem: A library-poor city
A petition was recently launched by residents of a Jerusalem neighborhood with no municipal library branch whose population – mainly young families – is now approaching 30,000 people
By Julie Rosenzweig
Illustrative image of a boy searching for books in Jerusalem's Intercol school supply store (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2017, 1:56 pm
Working together to further Jewish education
Some of the existing resources are truly amazing and have helped to ensure that Jewish students everywhere can receive a quality Jewish education, but there is still a great deal of money being spent trying to 'reinvent the wheel' rather than trying to engage in collaborations and partnerships
By Aryeh Eisenberg
Avishai Himelfarb, the founder and director of Leshomra, checks a watering system at a school garden in Modiin Ilit on March 22, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
June 11, 2017, 6:21 am
Ultra-Orthodox kids grow a green thumb in ‘mitzvah’ gardens
Leshomra group brings awareness of the environment to determinedly urban Haredi schools and community centers
By Melanie Lidman
Anne Frank's hiding place bedroom during the 1950s (left) and her restored bedroom at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam today (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
June 10, 2017, 7:21 am
Publication of Anne Frank’s diary saved her ‘Secret Annex’ from destruction
60 years ago, the Netherlands avoided 'national scandal' when activists rescued the wartime hiding place
By Matt Lebovic
Erin Davis performs at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City, February 2017 (Courtesy)
May 29, 2017, 2:36 am
Jewish NYC ‘wing-woman’ makes love connections the old-fashioned way
After capturing the attention of comedy clubs and TV producers, matchmaker-turned-comic Erin Davis brings her Jewish dating shtick to new stages
By Matt Lebovic
Young Arab girls seen studying during a lesson in the newly opened elementary school in the Arab neighborhood of Umm Tuba, in East Jerusalem in December 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
May 25, 2017, 11:57 pm
Cabinet to discuss $50 million improvement plan for East Jerusalem
Priorities to include investments in education, improved sewage infrastructure and more efficient trash removal
By Sue Surkes
Haredi children in Jerusalem. (photo credit: David Vaaknin/Flash90)
May 15, 2017, 3:22 pm
Haredi textbooks reinforce barricades
School curricula portray a hostile, us-them world and the biggest enemy is modernity itself
By Marcus Sheff
Newly appointed Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug gives a statement to the media outside the Bank of Israel building in Jerusalem October 20, 2013. Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 4, 2017, 4:41 pm
Teach better skills, cut regulation, central bank head demands
Israel's growth depends on more effective workforce and investment in infrastructure, Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug says
By Shoshanna Solomon
April 28, 2017, 2:56 pm
Heroes are everywhere
On how one teacher harnessed National Superhero Day to inspire kids with the heroism in each of them
By Ruth Ebenstein
American Jewish day school students studying outside. (Courtesy of Hillel Day School/JTA)
April 26, 2017, 10:36 pm
Most highly educated American Jews are least religious — study
Only a quarter of Jews who have graduated from college believe in God and say religion is important to them, says Pew research
By JTA
Students at the Foxboro Regional Charter School in Massachusetts pose with a Holocaust-related mural in 2016, created through the school's Holocaust Stamps Project (Courtesy)
April 24, 2017, 5:47 pm
More than 9.2-million canceled stamps later, Holocaust postage project recognized in Boston
For 8 years, students at a Massachusetts charter school have collected stamps to learn about the Shoah -- and push back on bullying
By Matt Lebovic
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (right) with Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug, June 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 20, 2017, 2:48 pm
Bank of Israel backs treasury on tax breaks, benefits plan
Measures proposed by Finance Minister Kahlon are appropriate and in line with policies, central bank says
By Shoshanna Solomon
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