‘Secular Yeshiva’ answers young Israelis’ questions
Dina Kraft
October 26, 2006
The goal is to give young, secular Israelis an education that will show them that they too have a rich culture to tap into and explore.
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Class Notes – National Nachas for Shalhevet
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
March 9, 2006
Five brief pieces, on the following: Shalhevet School\’s recent winning streak, Camp Ramah\’s new solar panels, a five-day summer workshop that shows teachers how to use studying the holocaust to teach morality, an opportunity to serve abroad as part of the \”Jewish Peace Corps,\” and a recent Prejudice Awareness Summit at the University of Judaism.
Israel, N.Y. Schools Drop Weinberg Suits
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
June 24, 2004
Yeshiva University (YU) in New York and a Derech Etz Chaim yeshiva (DEC) in Israel have settled a lawsuit sparked by allegations that a former California rabbi made sexual advances toward students.
Much Moola for New Look at YULA
Gaby Wenig
September 26, 2002
For Rabbi Marvin Hier, the new $12.6 million YULA (Yeshiva University of Los Angeles) boys\’ school building gives him both a feeling of pride and a twinge of envy.
Education Briefs
Jewish Journal
August 22, 2002
Rashi Hebrew Academy, a new yeshiva for learning disabled and gifted children, will open Sept. 3 at Congregation Shaarei Tefila on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Finishing the Foundation
Wendy J. Madnick
May 23, 2002
As an experienced plastic surgeon, Dr. Joel Teplinsky knows how to fix a nose or perform a skin graft on a burn patient.
Behind the Name
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
November 15, 2001
A number of years ago, a philanthropist who visited the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein\’s rabbinical seminary on the Lower East Side of New York prepared to give a large gift to the yeshiva.
Yeshiva Students Still Going to Israel
Julie Wiener
August 23, 2001
Jennifer Kessler always knew she would spend a year between high school and college studying at a girls\’ yeshiva in Israel.
A Wall of Intolerance
Larry Derfner
February 4, 1999
Thirty-three Reform rabbis, men and women from the United States and Canada, held their mixed-gender minyan at the Western Wall on Monday, protected by police barricades and dozens of cops, as a mob of more than 100 haredi yeshiva students hollered abuse at them.
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