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Jewish children in Brooklyn, New York, March 11, 2015 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
June 26, 2026, 5:32 pm
US Jewish day school enrollment rising across denominations for 1st time, report shows
Reform enrollment up by 5%, reversing years of declining trends; growth attributed to falling standards in some public schools, philanthropic investment, rising antisemitism
By Grace Gilson
A photo of the interior of Deborah Brodie and Jay Brill's residence in Rockville, Maryland. (Jonathan Edelman via JTA)
May 4, 2026, 1:27 am
After Maryland teacher’s death, 200-piece Judaica collection finds new life in Jewish museum
Amassed by Deborah Brodie over 35 years as hands-on tool for students with special needs, collection goes to Capital Jewish Museum with help of instagram account documenting inheritance stories
By Grace Gilson
High school competitors at the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education's annual robotics competition, in New York City, April 29, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 1, 2026, 2:17 am
214 robots take the field at US national competition for Jewish schools
Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education hosts annual tournament in New York, highlighting the growing importance and challenges for STEM programs in Jewish education
By Luke Tress
A view of Immanuel College in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 16, 2026, 1:27 am
Top British private Jewish school closing amid funding challenges
The closure comes as fees at independent schools become subject to value added tax and as more students enroll in Haredi institutions
By Grace Gilson
Rabbi Daniel Kaiman (Courtesy via JTA)
April 9, 2026, 1:10 am
Jewish families and a rabbi ask to join lawsuit to block Oklahoma Jewish charter school
Many local Jews, opposed to what would be country’s first such institution, claim school board can’t be trusted to vigorously defend state’s secular education laws
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on January 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (Screenshot via JTA)
March 26, 2026, 1:03 am
Supporters of Jewish charter school file lawsuit challenging ban in Oklahoma
Backers of proposed Ben Gamla School hope court proceeding will set stage for the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board discussed and rejected an application from the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation on February 9, 2026. (Screenshot via JTA)
March 14, 2026, 4:37 pm
Oklahoma attorney general slams ‘rigged’ vote on proposed Jewish charter school
In a motion this week, Gentner Drummond says the board ‘deliberately hobbled its own legal position’ by issuing a denial that strengthens the institution’s case in federal court
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board discussed and rejected an application from the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation on February 9, 2026. (Screenshot via JTA)
February 10, 2026, 7:23 pm
Backers of proposed Oklahoma Jewish charter school say they’ll sue to overturn state ban
Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation claims decision against publicly funding such religious institutions was unconstitutional, announces plans to take case to federal court
By Grace Gilson and Asaf Elia-Shalev
Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on January 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City. (Screenshot via JTA)
January 15, 2026, 6:47 am
Oklahoma board to vote on religious Jewish charter school, teeing up potential battle
The bid revives an unresolved Supreme Court dispute over church-state separation in public education, as some in the relatively small community question who the program would even serve
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
An image of former British chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks from 2013. (Courtesy © Blake-Ezra Photography Ltd.)
November 11, 2025, 11:01 am
Five years after his death, online course aims to make Rabbi Sacks’s philosophy go global
A scholar mentored by Sacks hopes to preserve and disseminate the former UK chief rabbi’s legacy as one of the greatest modern Jewish thinkers
By Rossella Tercatin
A classroom at the Darchei Torah Boys School in Far Rockaway, Queens, on May 16, 2018. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
October 1, 2025, 2:26 am
NYC pilot program offers Jewish day school subsidies — and hope for overextended parents
With a 3-year, $15 million fund, New York’s UJA-Federation seeks to address the longstanding issue of prohibitively expensive Jewish schooling amid surging post-Oct. 7 demand
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
From left to right: Labor MK Gilad Kariv at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) and Likud MK Galit Distel Atbaryan at the Knesset on July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 9, 2025, 9:08 pm
‘The Jews here want to continue’: Likud MK kicks Reform rabbi out of Knesset hearing
Labor MK Gilad Kariv states women can wrap tefillin, prompting outrage from Distel Atbaryan, who appears to compare act to giving dog a bar mitzvah
By Michael Horovitz, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Education Minister Yoav Kisch attends a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee in Jerusalem, May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2025, 12:48 am
Education minister unveils ramped-up Jewish, Zionist studies, mandatory Bible class
Required programming to include tours of Jerusalem, West Bank sites, as share of the education budget for Jewish studies upped from 1% to 4%
By ToI Staff
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
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference, Feb. 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
May 10, 2025, 4:39 pm
NY state budget weakens oversight of yeshivas in blow to secular education advocates
Deadline to comply with state education standards delayed to 2032-33; state to check how many students took unstandardized exams, but not how well they did
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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