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Educators insist the best place for children’s education remains in the classroom

June 10, 2021, 12:01 pm

SPECIAL REPORT: How the pandemic has transformed education in Jewish schools

Remote learning, well-being workshops, classroom bubbles and virtual parents’ evenings are just some of the ways Covid impacted on schools – and the changes are likely here to stay

By Stephen Oryszczuk

All smiles: Francine is greeted by Year One pupils at Machshava primary school. Credit: Geoffrey Alan Photography

February 6, 2020, 1:05 pm

‘No child is a zero’: How Migdal Ohr helps 10,000 at-risk children every year

Francine Wolfisz visits one of Israel's largest non-profit organisations, which has helped turn around the lives of thousands of children for nearly 50 years

By Francine Wolfisz

Natan Sharansky addressing guests at the House of Commons event

February 1, 2019, 1:09 pm

Special report: ‘They tried to erase Babi Yar, but we will remember’

Backers of a planned new Holocaust memorial and learning centre in Kiev, Ukraine, tell Jewish News about their mission to safeguard the truth

By Stephen Oryszczuk

February 28, 2018, 3:43 pm

The Jewish parents cutting out the bris

A movement called a ‘brit shalom’ is gaining ground with parents in the UK who don’t like the idea of circumcising their newborn boy. We hear the pros and cons

By Stephen Oryszczuk

The Jewish Schools Awards celebrate the best in education

January 25, 2018, 2:20 pm

Jewish Schools Awards 2018: Shaping a generation

Twelve months on from the 2017 Jewish Schools Awards, three finalists tell Alex Davis how the recognition has helped their teaching

By Alex Davis

Last year's winners on stage with Jewish news editor Rchard Ferrer PaJeS executive director Rabbi David Meyer, educational philanthropist Benjamin Perl and JLC chairman Jonathan Goldstein

January 25, 2018, 2:16 pm

Jewish Schools Awards 2018: Putting the class in classroom

We preview the finalists ahead of this week’s annual Jewish News–PaJeS Jewish Schools Awards, being held at JW3

A Ben Azzai group and Rabbi Daniel Epstein with Shea Butter co-op founder Joanna (in green dress) at a women’s co-op in Tamale, Ghana

December 22, 2017, 1:29 pm

Chief Rabbi and Tzedek send students to Ghana to learn social responsibility

High-achieving youngsters spend an immersive week in West Africa learning about widespread challenges faced in Ghana on the Ben Azzai project.

By Jenni Frazer

Staff at the Coffee Mill cafe Jerusalem with Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz

December 21, 2017, 3:12 pm

Restaurant rebels put Israel’s kosher ‘racket’ under the grill

Kosher has become even more complicated in Israel thanks to a new ruling that states restaurants can serve 'kosher' food without a rabbinical certificate

By Lisa Sanders

Some of our winners in Eighteen Under 18 at Jewish News-Jewish Leadership Council Thirty Under 30 and Eighteen Under 18 reception at JW3

Credit: Marc Morris Photography

December 21, 2017, 12:10 pm

Faces of the future: Honouring our Thirty Under 30 and Eighteen Under 18

Jewish News-Jewish Leadership Council honour the winners of our two lists of individuals who are set to shape the future of Anglo-Jewry

By Jewish News Reporter

December 14, 2017, 4:11 pm

EXCLUSIVE interview with Len McCluskey: ‘Ken’s comments were indefensible’

Leader of Unite tells Jewish News he's 'uncomfortable' about part of his union's boycott policy and how Prime Minister Corbyn would have purchase with Hamas

By Stephen Oryszczuk

A masked member of Black September appears on a balcony during the terror attack

September 5, 2017, 11:09 am

Special report: Haunted by Munich – surviving the Olympics’ darkest hour

Dan Alon, a survivor of the Munich Olympic Games massacre of 1972, tells Jenni Frazer how he's carried the horrors of the attack with him for over 40 years

By Jenni Frazer

August 4, 2017, 10:31 am

Special Report: Israel shows how Yazidi can emerge from ISIS nightmare

During a trip to Israel, Yazidi genocide survivor and campaigner Nadia Murad tells Jodie Cohen how mentorship by the Jewish community can help her people to start rebuilding their lives

By Jodie Cohen

New Turkish envoy Eitan Na'eh (left) presenting his credentials to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (right)

December 9, 2016, 9:57 am

New Turkish envoy on carrying Jerusalem’s hopes from London to Ankara

Eitan Na’eh speaks exclusively to Jewish News about the challenges of his new role in the Turkish capital

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Andrew Voelke with IDF chaplain putting on tefillin

November 14, 2016, 2:25 pm

How IDF orphans celebrate their bar and batmitzvahs

Coming of age is a rite of passage for every Jewish youngster, including the 3,000 young IDF orphans

By Lisa Sanders

October 31, 2016, 5:33 pm

The wheelchair warrior fighting for the disabled

Karin Elharrar has some revolutionary ideas about special needs education in Israel and is not afraid to shout about them, as she tells Stephen Oryszczuk

By Stephen Oryszczuk

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