education

O.U. to address economic crisis on day schools

The Orthodox Union is convening leaders from Orthodox Jewish day schools and yeshivas to address the economic crisis and its effect on the day school system.

By Jacob Berkman January 6, 2009 9:18 pm

Canadian union seeks ban on Israeli academics

Canada’s largest union said it will seek a ban on Israeli academics working at Ontario universities.

January 6, 2009 8:59 pm

Why colleges want more Jews

That’s the question Inside Higher Ed set out to explore. And the answer, while it might warm Jewish hearts, also trades liberally in stereotypes of Jewish academic and financial prowess. The story quotes Patti Mittleman, the Jewish chaplain at Muhlenberg College, a Lutheran school in Pennsylvania, who was "inundated" with inquiries after a newspaper reported […]

October 31, 2008 10:27 pm