By E.B. Solomont
In the early days of Princeton Review, roughly half of the test prep company’s employees were Jewish. Even now, many companies in the field have Jewish founders and tutors.
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By Nathan Guttman
A Palestinian professor and an American colleague embarked on a mission to make sure Israeli and Palestinian school children hear each other’s stories.
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By JTA
The leader in iPad integration in Jewish schools is probably Frankel Jewish Academy in suburban Detroit, whose students began this school year with a nice surprise: Each received a new iPad2.
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By Naomi Zeveloff
The Class of 2012 will graduate this May with the unique distinction of having begun college when the economy first nosedived, four years ago.
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By Gordon Haber
George Washington University will launch the first graduate program in the U.S. to mesh Jewish culture with management training. The first class will have just a handful of students.
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By Michael Kaminer
Groups supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students are becoming fixtures of student life at a growing number of Jewish day schools.
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By Sarah Wildman
Most tourists only see one side of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. An innovative program aims to let outsiders see the country through a dual narrative.
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By Elicia Brown
Some Jewish community day schools are accepting non-Jewish students. Will the experiment give them a new lease on life, or drive away Jewish parents?
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By Nathan Jeffay
Youths outside Israel’s main cities are in double jeopardy. There are fewer job opportunities and they traditionally get less high-tech education.
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By Sarah Wildman
Every morning at the CommuniKids Preschool in northwest Washington, D.C., children are greeted with hola, not hello, and they banter and sing in Spanish rather than English. The preschool has another site in Northern Virginia where parents can choose immersion in French as well as Spanish.
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