Happenings More than $2 million was raised and more than 450 people attended a pair of gala dinners hosted by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in San Francisco and Silicon Valley on Oct. 20-21. The galas celebrated 70 years of the IDF and featured speeches by active and former IDF soldiers. The money…
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Education
Philanthropy
Taube gift strengthens Holocaust education at New Orleans WWII museum
San Francisco-based Taube Philanthropies has pledged $2 million to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans to develop the Taube Family Holocaust Education…
Local Voice
1,000 students crossed the street to show our Jewish school love and support
After the tragic shooting of 11 Jews attending Tree of Life congregation for Shabbat morning services in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, there has been an…
Diversity
Making space for teen Jews of color
The 16 students — black, Asian and Latino, and all Jewish — stood in a circle at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. When asked whether they’ve ever been told…
Bay Area
Orthodox youth groups spring up around the Bay
Rabbi Akiva Naiman knows the way to a teen’s heart is through food. But as a director of the Orthodox Union’s youth group NCSY, he says the students who…
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Children's book about Jewish and Muslim boys
Rabbi Sheldon Lewis, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto, has long been engaged in interfaith reconciliation efforts in the Middle East.…
Israel at 70
In 2018, what are school Israel trips for?
Examining graffiti art. Meeting with Druze and Bedouin families. Visiting an Arab neighborhood in Haifa. Assembling crutches for a nonprofit. Making…
Education
What’s the end goal of education?
The educational psychologist Jerome Bruner (1915–2016) once wrote, “We might ask, as a criterion for any subject taught … whether, when fully developed,…
Talking With ...
Knowledge in a time of competing realities
Sam Wineburg, Ph.D., is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education, History and American Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Wineburg,…