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Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Frederick County Public Schools Over Antisemitism

At the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year, New Market Middle School teacher Leslie Williamson retired early after a 23-year tenure with Frederick County...

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D’var Torah: Names Are Not Just Labels

By Rabbi Jon Roos This week’s Torah portion is Devarim: Deuteronomy 1:1 — 3:22 I can tell how and from where people know me by the...

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Lifting Spirits at a Montgomery County Kosher Distillery

The sprawling 29-acre property that makes up Song Dog Farm Distillery in Boyds was nearly a decade in the making for a Jewish couple...

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JD Vance Tells Joe Rogan that Jeffrey Epstein had ‘Connections’ to...

Grace Gilson | JTA Vice President JD Vance claimed that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the “highest levels” of Israeli...

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Meet the North American Families Who Are Moving to Israel Right Now

By Peter Ephross At first glance, the recent celebration outside a northern New Jersey synagogue looked a lot like a bar or bat mitzvah party. Dance...

More Than a GPA: Inside the Movement to End Letter Grades in Jewish Education

By Debra Rubin At least three times each school year, middle school pupils at the Oakland Hebrew Day School write divrei Torah, or essays on a...

How Teachers Are Harnessing AI to Democratize Israeli Education

By Elana Sztokman When veteran Israeli educator Meirav Seror asked her high school literature class in Beersheba how they might use artificial intelligence to study for...

These Schools Build Druze Israeli Identity, One Student at a Time

By Elana Sztokman The front courtyard of the Amal high school in the western Galilee village of Yanuh Jat, with its stone terraces, flower-lined walkways...