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Temple Beth Israel's director of congregational learning Lori Sagarin (fourth from left), Theodore Herzl School principal Tamara Davis (fifth from left) and others beneath Theodor Herzl portrait donated to school by Herzl collector David Matlow, Chicago, December 18, 2017. (Courtesy)
December 24, 2017, 1:51 pm
Jewish Chicagoans play Santa for students at school named for Zionist leader
Three synagogues team up to donate $10,000 worth of Christmas gifts to kids at the Herzl School of Excellence
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Chaim Steinmetz
December 15, 2017, 2:40 pm
Chaim Steinmetz
No free lunch for NYC’s Jewish and Muslim students
Mayor de Blasio will feed all school kids. Well, except for 33,800 students who eat halal and kosher
Sarah Shapiro
December 14, 2017, 3:16 pm
Sarah Shapiro
Flames unseen
For a little girl in an American suburb, December was the beautiful season
Students at the Harlem Hebrew Language Academy are immersed in a bilingual environment from the moment they walk through the doors -- even the kindergarteners. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)
January 13, 2017, 5:09 am
The halls are alive with the sound of Hebrew
A national network of secular, bilingual immersion schools plans to open its 10th branch next year in South Brooklyn — and the student body is surprisingly diverse
By Cathryn J. Prince
Biblical texts displayed at the 'Books of Books' exhibition in the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, on October 23, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 12, 2016, 3:00 pm
Bible placed alongside ’50 Shades of Grey’ on ‘challenged’ book list
Criticized for sex, violence and legal issues, the Good Book makes top ten of tomes objected to by different groups
By AP
An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State (IS) shows a masked militant holding a knife and gesturing as he speaks to the camera in a desert landscape before a beheading. (AFP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group/HO)
March 20, 2016, 2:31 am
NYC teacher fined $300 for showing students beheading video
Officials initially sought to fire teacher, who said video played only after she clicked on wrong link
By AP
New York mayor Bill de Blasio (Courtesy BilldeBlasio.com)
September 25, 2015, 2:39 am
In first, New York City schools close for Muslim holiday
Over a million kids get the day off for Eid al-Adha
By AP
Pine Bush, New York (CC-BY-SA Daniel Case/Wikimedia Commons)
June 30, 2015, 3:24 am
Pine Bush schools settle anti-Semitic lawsuit for $4.5 million
Students had accused education officials of failing to address repeated cases of anti-Semitism
By JTA
Kindergarten children in their classroom.(Edi Israel/Flash90)
February 20, 2015, 9:03 am
Orthodox schools benefit from new NYC pre-K rules
Prayer and the scheduling preferences of Orthodox Jews now accommodated in public funding guidelines; OU unsatisfied
By JTA
Members of the Turkish education unions hold a banner that reads, "No to obligatory religious education", as they protest against the government's education policies in Ankara on February 13, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Adem Atlan)
February 13, 2015, 10:08 pm
Turks boycott schools, demanding secular education
Demonstrations take place in Istanbul and elsewhere in Turkey to protest perceived Islamization of public schools
By AFP
Former US president George W. Bush (L) and Adolf Hitler (R) (photo credit: Getty Images/JTA and German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons)
September 12, 2014, 2:31 am
6th-graders asked to compare Bush, Hitler
Teacher apologizes for ‘poor judgement’ after assigning Venn diagram for both men who ‘abused their power’
By Marissa Newman
Southern parents protesting for quiet in the south in Jerusalem on August 22, 2004. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 26, 2014, 1:59 pm
Beersheba parents say school can’t start till Gaza op ends
Education minister’s insistence that the academic year will start as planned next Monday faces growing opposition
By TOI staff
Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate Sculpture located in Chicago's Millennium Park (photo credit: MikeH5255/Wikimedia Commons)
July 29, 2014, 3:04 pm
Chicago principal reassigned after anti-Semitic bullying
Parents think Joshua VanderJagt acted sluggishly in response to anti-Semitic bullying among eighth graders
By JTA
An American school bus (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA BMRR/Wikipedia)
February 26, 2014, 2:09 pm
Iconic school buses headed to Negev
An Israeli company is planning to import several dozen of the famous vehicles for use by the Bedouin community
By Itamar Sharon
Heavily armed Connecticut State troopers on the scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, December 2012 (photo credit: AP/The Journal News, Frank Becerra Jr.)
December 22, 2012, 3:16 am
NRA breaks its silence on Newtown shooting by calling for armed guards at public schools
Parents and officials offer mixed reactions, from support to disgust, to gun-right lobby group’s proposal and its feasibility
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