Jewish day school

Before families choose a school, they choose a community - opinion

For generations, the Jewish community has assumed that stronger Jewish day schools require greater investment in Jewish day schools. Those investments matter, but they don't begin early enough.

Jewish children are seen around a shofar.
Students enrolled in the Jewish program at Baku’s School No. 46 celebrate the festival of sukkot.

Baku's Jewish school passes 100 students as Azerbaijan's Jewish community continues to grow

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.

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

Gary Torgow stood with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other ministers on June 28, 2026

Who is Gary Torgow: The man who got Washington and Jerusalem to fund Jewish day schools - interview


State's first-ever Jewish primary school opens in Vermont

The school will teach Jewish values and culture as well as Judaic studies and Hebrew immersion.

Israeli kids wearing school bags ahead of the first day of school and kindergarten outside their home in Jerusalem on August 31, 2020, The Israeli secular state education system will open tomorrow.

Maryland Jewish day school principal donates bone marrow to 2-year-old

Five attackers threw a grenade into the restaurant in August 1982 before opening fire on some 30 diners and passersby. The restaurant closed in 2006.

Bone marrow 370

NY man threatens to shoot up yeshiva summer camp over social distancing

The complaint was directed at the Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island's children's day camp, to which Pelle lives next to.

CELEBRATING ISRAEL day at the summer camp of the Greek Jewish community.

Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump will send kids back to Jewish day school

“Children have a six times higher chance to die from the flu than from the coronavirus. So, based on the data I’ve seen, I don’t believe that that’s a risk,” Kushner said.

Jared and Ivanka Kushner

Amid coronavirus, a rabbi and dad is starting an online Jewish day school

Yesod represents one of countless efforts by enterprising parents trying to manage uncertainty around schooling that would have been unimaginable just six months ago.

Parents' response to the uncertainty and danger around school attendance now includes a new effort to create an online Jewish day school.

Marvin Schick, longtime advocate for Jewish day schools, dies at 85

A vocal advocate of Jewish education, Schick conducted a number of comprehensive studies of day schools on behalf of the Avi Chai Foundation, most recently in 2014.

All boys who attend the day school are required to wear kippot and there is a conservative school uniform, including skirts for girls

Coronavirus: Philadelphia Jewish day school art center makes face shields

Since starting production last week, the school in Merion Station has made about 200 shields for distribution to doctors and nurses in the community. Now it’s ramping up production to produce that ma

A member of medical staff swaps a Palestinian worker for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing, upon his return from Israel, outside the Israeli-controlled Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 26, 2020

NY Jewish schools turn to virtual learning during coronavirus closures

Local parent: Antisemites are already blaming the Jews for the local outbreak

One of SAR's Zoom sessions Thursday morning included guitar music

Independent Jewish day school in Connecticut to close down

Carmel Academy announced its closure, citing the “current realities of finances and enrollment.”

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5 innovative ways Jewish day schools are reducing tuition costs

At some schools in the New York-New Jersey area, where most U.S. Jewish day school students are located, annual tuition fees of $30,000 in high school and $20,000 in elementary school are not unusual

Kasowitz presenting LEGO bricks to Jewish school children