For six weeks in November and December, the Yiddish Book Center will conduct an intensive beginners class online, using its prizewinning multimedia Yiddish textbook, “In Eynem” (a Yiddish expression which means “together”). The book, written by Asya Vaisman Schulman and Jordan Brown with Mikhl Yashinsky, received a Textbook Excellence Award last February from the Textbook…
This month, the Anne Frank House opened its fourth partner site, and first in North America, in an unlikely locale: a former alumni house at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. Joining existing partners in Buenos Aires, Berlin and London, the Anne Frank Center at UofSC will provide educational programming and exhibits intended…
As the incoming president of Gratz College, Zev Eleff says he will build on the Hebrew college’s success in attracting students from across the spectrum of Jewish life and developing new programs to expand its national reach. Eleff, a 35-year-old scholar of American Jewish history, currently serves as the chief academic officer of Hebrew Theological…
Most institutions of higher learning will have to weather a certain number of scandals and bad press. These stories are usually balanced with coverage of great faculty discoveries, inspiring student stories, or big new donations for the next new student center or auditorium. Brandeis University, founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by…
The California State Board of Education voted on Thursday to approve the most recent draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. The vote follows four years of contentious debate and objections leveled against the curriculum by Jewish organizations across the political spectrum. Nearly five years ago, California passed a bill, AB 2016, mandating a commission…
For California education activists across the political spectrum, Thursday marks what Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, the chair of the state’s Jewish caucus, recently called the “end of the beginning.” After more than four years of heated controversy, on March 18 the California Department of Education will vote on the fourth and most likely final draft of…
Rabbi Jessica Wainer joined a task force on religious observance created by the Fairfax County School Board last year. The committee was convened to address food, curriculum, clothing, and other religious accommodations. But as its first goal, the group of Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and other minority religion representatives chose what they thought would be…
Andrew Yang said he would not take action to boost secular education in yeshivas if elected mayor of New York City, staking out a position likely to win him support in Brooklyn’s Orthodox communities. “As mayor, I will always respect religious freedom including the freedom of parents to do what’s best for their kids educationally,”…
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