(Reuters) — A Colorado teacher who posted notes from her third grade class online and started a social media whirlwind under the hashtag #IWishMyTeacherKnew said on Friday the assignment had been a revelation for her. Kyle Schwartz, 26, asked the eight- and nine-year-olds at her Denver inner city school to write down something they wished she…
Between economic challenges and declining affiliation rates, it has been a rough few years for the non-Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County. Situated about 30 miles north of midtown Manhattan, Rockland has been named New York’s most fiscally stressed community for two straight years by the state comptroller, and median home values are still down…
The Jewish radio program based in Copenhagen cancelled its daily broadcast for security reasons. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, whose acronym in Danish is PET, told the radio station that holding the broadcast from its studio in a basement in the Norrebo neighborhood of Copenhagen is too dangerous, the Radio Shalom program’s host Abraham…
A new effort underway in Denver, backed by a wide-ranging coalition of Jewish organizations, hopes to use modern marketing techniques to increase enrollment at early childhood education centers and, in the process, lure a new generation of young and sometimes leery families back into Jewish life. The goals of the $810,000 initiative, led by the…
A Belgian watchdog on anti-Semitism warned that the country’s public schools are becoming “Jew-free” zones because of harassment. Joel Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, sounded the alarm in an interview for the weekly Le Vif/L’Express, which was published earlier this month and which revealed that the only Jewish student of the Emile…
Jewish schools in Belgium and Amsterdam were temporarily shuttered following a police raid on suspected terrorists. In Antwerp and Brussels, major Jewish schools suspended their activity on Friday as a response to security force’s decision to escalate Belgium’s level of alert to the penultimate Level 3, the online edition of the Joods Actueel monthly reported….
Rampant anti-Semitism in France’s public schools and threats against Jewish ones are giving a major push to Jewish emigration, a leader of French Jewry said. Roger Cukierman, president of the CRIF federation of French Jewish communities, discussed the choices facing parents from his community on Thursday, during a conference call with members of the Conference…
New York state’s requirement that children be vaccinated in order to attend public school does not violate parents’ religious rights under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan also ruled that students who receive religious exemptions from the vaccination law…
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