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Israel Explained in ‘Education Month’
An online tour of Masada, visits from kibbutz-based educators and a package of documentary and experimental films are among the highlights of the first Israel Education Month, a national campaign that runs through February 16. The campaign hopes to attract a new, young, Web-savvy group to engage in Israel-related activities, according to coordinators of the…
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January 24, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • Because the enlightened worker doesn’t believe in religion, he is often jealous of his friends who still celebrate joyous holidays like Chanukah, Purim and Simchat Torah. The enlightened worker goes sees only the poverty around him and thus goes around depressed. The enlightened worker needs a holiday during which to have…
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Georgetown Eyeing a Judaics Center in Bid To Boost Image
In an effort that could help burnish its spotty image in the Jewish community, Georgetown University, a prestigious Jesuit institution with a prominent center for Arab studies, is moving toward establishing a “Center for the Study of Jewish Civilization.” “We have internally — and making no announcement about it whatsoever — determined that we wish…
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Arabic Grows at Ivy League In Burst of Post-9/11 Interest
When Rachel Smith began taking Arabic at Princeton University two years ago, she had no choice about which class to take: Only one was offered. Today there are three sections. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, many more students at Ivy League colleges have begun studying Arabic. Like Smith, many of these students are…
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A ‘Screen Test’ as Teacher To the Hollywood Crowd
God knows how I became a teacher. At 29, I’d spent most of my post-Cornell years working on a writing career. First came my stellar screenwriting stint, the highlights of which included one “Winnie the Pooh” special (I put Eeyore on Prozac), two shelved studio comedies and, I’m sorry to say, one of those tawdry…
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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Bets on Education Start-up
aura Lauder has a thing for start-ups. In the 1990s, the now 42-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur staked her professional career on one of the Holy Grails of the digital boom — interactive cable television, a platform that allows two-way, multimedia communication between television and the Internet. The company she worked for, ICTV, sells a groovy…
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Out of Mississippi: Struggling To Revive the Dixie Diaspora
As long as there has been a Diaspora, the fate of struggling communities has mobilized Jewish philanthropists and planners, who pour in resources and personnel everywhere, from the former Soviet Union to North Africa. For Macy Hart, those kinds of efforts are needed closer to home, in places such as Selma, Ala., and Natchez, Miss….
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For Early Childhood Educators, Some Overdue Respect From Reform Movement
An organization is being established to serve the educators of the Reform movement’s early-childhood centers, officials announced at a conference this week. “We have a vision of an organization that can serve as a network, as a support system and as a professional body for early-childhood educators,” said Nancy Bossov, director of early childhood education…
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EDUCATION DESK
Israeli astronaut Colonel Ilan Ramon, who flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia this week, conducted an experiment on Mediterranean dust and climate that was conceived, built and managed by scientists from Tel Aviv University. It is being discussed as a possible permanent addition to the International Space Station. Two additional Israeli-designed experiments are also aboard…
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Law School Is Brave New World for Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Women
The heat in the classroom was stifling. The students, all of them women, leaned over their notebooks like diligent sewing machine operators in a garment factory and penned rivers of words. The lecturers spoke quickly, with no interruptions and no questions. At the end of the lesson, one woman raced to the window, where she…
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Bush and the Budget: Life in the Balance
Are federal budget deficits good or bad? It all depends. This question is evoked by what is happening in Washington right now, i.e., the federal deficit is growing by the billions. When President Clinton left office, the budget was pretty much in balance. Indeed, it was one of the few moments in the long history…
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