Eitan, who was brought up in a Conservative Jewish family in Atlanta, became a soldier: “When I was in high school, I told my parents I don’t even need to apply to college because I am just gonna join the Israeli military.” He is trained for combat and soon ends up on the West...
founded Dream Lab, a teaching fellowship and catalyst for artist educators to deepen their professional practice as educators. Together with her husband Jonathan, she proudly channels her interest in creativity into parenting their three elementary and middle-school aged children, Elijah, Judah and Zoe...
A self-administered coronavirus test is catching on with the city's elementary school students. It began as a pilot program at two schools and is now being expanded across the district. “The kids have responded really well to it. It's not scary, it doesn't hurt. We make it a game;...
The subjects to be taught in the Jewish schools were to be the same as those taught in the national schools; the same text-books were to be used in all the elementary schools; and everything that might offend the religious sentiment of non-conformists was to be omitted.Tolerance Edict. ...
With regard to the educational system, the child, as soon as it left the elementary school, devoted its time either to learning a trade or to the study of science. The latter study embraced four branches: natural science, medicine, philosophy, and poetry. The study of the sciences was, ...
school. She told me that her name was Zenita Liebermann but recently, in an attempt to Americanize themselves, her parents had changed their name from “Liebermann” to “Lane.” Besides being thoroughly instructed in Hebrew by her father while growing up and also in school, she said she ...
One teacher-researcher who prioritizes creating an equal playing field among students found building this sort of community of learners in an online classroom much more challenging. Her early elementary school students would just get up from their iPads and ask their parents for the answer when th...
The 39th annual St. James St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. The parade will step off along Lake Avenue from Woodlawn Avenue to the viewing stand in front of the gazebo ending just before St James Elementary School, rain or shine. Featuring scouts, dance troupes...
“I learned from my parents to serve the Jewish community, about which I care deeply,” she said. “When I was in junior high, I told my dad that ‘everyone’ at Hebrew school but me was going to Benjamin Franklin. Less than a month later, Daddy bought a house near the J and for...
1. The Talmud Torah, founded in 1804 as a school for the poor, and for the teaching of Hebrew only, but wholly reorganized by Bernays in 1822 by the addition of lessons in German and various elementary studies. After Bernays' death it was conducted by Chief Rabbi Stern and changed into ...