Jewish education

ConnectEd launches online English-speaking community for Jewish educators

Initially developed for Hebrew-speaking educators, the form offers webinars, peer learning, working groups, and collaborative projects for Israel's English-speaking community.

Visitors at the ANU Museum of the Jewish People.
Miami: Students at Lehrman Community Day School mark Oct. 7, as part of UnitEd’s global schools Zoom ceremony in 2024.

More than a safe haven: Jewish schools after Oct. 7

Learning Hebrew at the Alliance Rachi School in Paris2

Who will teach the next generation?

Jewish children gather around a teacher for an engaging Jewish educational event in a Synagogue

Eight Jewish educators named winners of global Jewish teachers award


One lesson on antisemitism reduces belief in antisemitic tropes in teens ADL study finds

The lesson shifted beliefs about antisemitism but did not fully improve broader attitudes toward Jews, suggesting additional content on Jewish identity and peoplehood may be needed.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage at ADL's Never Is Now conference on March 3, 2025 in New York City.

UK Jewish schools spend more time on security than education, antisemitism review reveals - report

The government-commissioned independent review is led by David Bell, who previously served as permanent secretary at the Department for Education from 2006 to 2011.

People attend a rally of Jewish community groups, including Campaign Against Antisemitism and Stop the Hate UK, calling for action to "extinguish antisemitism", outside Downing Street in London, Britain, May 10, 2026.

Israel launches program to recruit North American Jewish teachers

The new initiative will streamline licensing, job placement, and aliyah for North American Jewish educators seeking to teach in Israel.

The launch event for the National Program for the Immigration of Teachers to Israel, a joint venture of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption and the "Nefesh B'Nefesh" organization. August 5, 2026.

Tisha B'Av reminds us that rebuilding Israel begins with education - opinion

Perhaps the rebuilding of Jerusalem begins when we become what Isaiah called repairers of the breach, and every act of education becomes another stone in that rebuilding.

  A MODEL OF the Second Temple of Jerusalem.

New Yael Foundation data reveal Jewish education enrollment growing

Despite global uncertainty, Jewish education enrollment is excelerating in in 48 countries

Yael Foundation Co-Founder Uri Poliavich on a visit to the Jewish school in Rome: "I am delighted that we are launching this unprecedented project that will keep Jewish communities safer and more secure."

Nefesh B'Nefesh launches fellowship to strengthen Israel education in North American schools

The inaugural cohort brings 12 Jewish educators to Israel for a yearlong program focused on teaching Zionism, Jewish identity and Israel.

Representing Jewish day schools from New York, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Maryland, Washington State, and Toronto, the fellows include department chairs, school administrators and educational leaders

After 50-years of Jewish outreach, pioneering American Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald steps down

The synagogue’s energetic educational director, Ephraim Buchwald, 29, suggested that Lincoln Square create a Shabbat service that could reach the majority of American Jews.

 The Lincoln Square Synagogue at 200 Amsterdam Avenue on the corner of West 69th Street in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1970 and designed by Hausman & Rosenberg.

Parashat Matot-Masei: Don’t borrow identity

Public debate has become louder, more bitter, and less capable of self-correction because opinions have hardened into identities.

IT ALL comes back to the question of identity.

Expanding Jewish education in the diaspora is a 'shared responsibility' - editorial

The government-backed initiative, advanced in partnership with JFNA, will focus on expanding access to Jewish education and strengthening Jewish identity among the next generation.

JFNA Board of Directors chairman Gary Torgow is seen with assembled Israeli government officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the government approved a NIS 200m. plan to bolster Jewish education in the Diaspora on June 28, 2026.

Israel partners with JPost to launch major new global initiative for Diaspora teachers 

At the annual New York conference, Yom Tov Raanan revealed a joint award to recognize outstanding educators driving Zionist pride and identity worldwide. 

Yom Tov Raanan, Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism