Education

Rabbi Amos Karniel was remembered as a humble man who dedicated his life to the children of the community.

Jews have called Vancouver Island, British Columbia, home for 160 years. Now, for the first time ever, its Jewish children are able to receive a formal Jewish education in their hometown. Kineret Tamim Academy of Victoria—Vancouver Island’s capital city—o...

Last September, Erez, a Jewish father living in San Francisco, took his son to his first day at a highly-praised, self-described “holistic” secular private school in the Bay Area. This September, he plans to drive straight past that school and bring his s...

By this fall, and after only three years, 10 new innovative Jewish elementary schools will have opened in communities around the nation, a harbinger of a brighter future for Jewish education in the 21st century. All part of the Tamim Academy Network, the ...

A Jewish day school in the Manhattan Beach section of Brooklyn, N.Y., was named by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School for 2022. The Chabad-Lubavitch-affiliated Mazel Day School is the only Jewish school in the nation and the...

Rabbi Israel Teitelbaum was a man of action, an educator who identified the needs of the individuals and communities around him. He did this in both his hometown of Morristown, N.J., as administrator of the Rabbinical College of America, and on a national...

The 11th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, corresponding in 2023 to Sunday, April 2, is the 121st anniversary of the birth of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. The day is being marked by observances around the world, and in rec...

Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Goldie Plotkin was invited to speak at a Knesset meeting last month on the need for premarital counseling for Jewish men and women. The voluntary program created by a proposed new law would provide substantial financial benefits ...

It’s been nearly three years now since the 100 or so students at Maimonides Jewish Day School and The Gan–Portland Jewish Preschool in Portland, Ore., walked through the doors of their school’s new building on an extended campus, constructed to minimize t...

Tirtza Ben David drives two hours a day to take her two young daughters, Moriyah, 4, and Chana, 2, to the Lubavitch Cheder Day School in St. Paul, Minn. It’s a small school, she says, where each child gets personalized attention and the chance to learn in...