Shaped by his own experiences as a Jewish immigrant from Latin America, Adrian Ridner co-founded Mountain View-based Study.com as a way to make college accessible and affordable. Today, according to the company, 40 million people per month, from K-12 to adults, use Study.com to achieve education and career goals. The company also has been assisting…
In Jewish life, the Hebrew word kehillah, meaning congregation or community, bears immeasurable significance. So much of Jewish practice is based on coming together as a kehillah, and connecting in a meaningful way with family and friends in both good and bad times. Central to any kehillah are three foundational pillars – family, education and…
The victory of an activist over a long-serving state politician might signal that there’s more support, even in a devout Brooklyn district, for secular education in religious schools than suspected. Community organizer Emily Gallagher, 36, narrowly beat Assemblyman Joe Lentol, 77, by an estimated 400 to 600 votes in the Democratic primary in the 50th…
With the passage and signing of the Never Again Education Act, the federal government is funding Holocaust education for the first time. As asserted in the very name of the law, the politicians and Jewish organizations who supported the bill and hailed its recent signing by President Trump say education can actually help prevent violent…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio personally called Orthodox leaders asking them to support his effort to retain control over the city’s schools in exchange for soft-balling a probe into the state of secular education at yeshivas, according to internal emails obtained by the New York Post. The emails from late June support a report,…
The Jewish community, like most of the world, still does not yet know when the current crisis will end. We can, however, begin to think about parts of our life that will be different after this period than they were before. For Jewish education specifically, thinking ahead is critical; it will fall to Jewish communal…
More than half of the yeshivas investigated by the New York City Department of Education over the past two years are not providing the required amount of secular education to students, according to a Department of Education letter released today. The Department visited 28 schools and wrote that of that number, 11 are providing the…
Political considerations prompted city hall officials and state legislators in New York to intentionally delayed the release of a report about the city’s inspections of yeshivas, according to an investigation released today. “Political horse-trading unquestionably occurred,” said Margaret Garnett, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation and Anastasia Coleman, the Special Commissioner of…
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