Israel’s Education Ministry has ruled against the inclusion of a novel about a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man in the Hebrew high school curriculum because it feared it could raise tensions among pupils, an official said on Thursday.
A suburban Philadelphia Jewish day school that closed down its teachers union has offered early retirement packages to more than half its faculty members.
In this inaugural edition of the Forward’s HomeLands feature, we hear from Rabbi Aaron Finkelstein, 31, and his wife, Julie Sugar, 30, at their home in Nashville, Tennessee.