Six Israeli teachers awarded for innovative Jewish education
Several months after being evacuated from her home in an agricultural community near the border with Gaza, Israeli schoolteacher Tamar Eyal went back to her abandoned school which had been turned into a military...
‘We’re not just raising Jewish children’
A few weeks ago, I sat down with some of our eighth-graders to talk about their upcoming trip to Israel. Sinai Akiba Academy in Los Angeles has been sending students on this trip for...
Volunteer of the Month: San Diego Humane Society’s Myrna Weitzman
Mother’s Day is in May, so for this month, our volunteer is Myrna Weitzman, who is not only a helpful volunteer, but also Dr. Gary Weitzman’s mother. Dr. Weitzman is the president and CEO...
Academy’s new home to focus on the history and revival of the Hebrew language
Professor Aharon Maman is confident that the Minve, the new home of the Academy of the Hebrew Language he heads, will soon take its rightful place alongside Jerusalem’s principal institutions in the Government Quarter near the Knesset...
At 100, YIVO aims to be more global
As YIVO Institute for Jewish Research archivists pored over 200,000 pages of materials from the literary estate of acclaimed Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, which the nonprofit acquired in 2010 after Grade’s widow died, they...
‘Aliyah’ of the soul
In the wake of Oct. 7, the Jewish community in North America is at a critical juncture. The once-held beliefs of comfort, safety and assimilation have been shattered. We have stepped into a new...
New Milken child ed center a ‘real gift’ for the Jewish people, LA rabbi...
Yoshi Zweiback, the senior rabbi at the Stephen Wise Temple, a more than 60-year-old Reform congregation in Los Angeles, pressed his feet into tiles on the ground as he gazed out over the Santa...
Renewing ‘tikkun olam’ in modern times
Moses stood up to the Egyptian slavemaster and then to Pharaoh for the freedom of his people, and with specific guidance from God, brought them through the desert to the Promised Land—today’s land of...
New York Mayor Eric Adams receives ‘shmurah matzah’
The executive director of the Israel Heritage Foundation Rabbi David Katz, along with Rabbi Dr. Joseph Frager and honorary chairman Jonathan Burkan, recently met with New York Mayor Eric Adams. They presented Adams with shmurah...