USF's new social justice grad program will make Jewish JEDIs By Emma Goss May 31, 2023 In 2009, Erin-Kate Escobar was one of the first students to graduate from the University of San Francisco with a minor in Jewish studies and social justice. USF, a Jesuit university, had introduced the minor just a year earlier. Now Escobar is helping to develop a new graduate-level certificate program through the Swig Program in… Read More
Education Israel to invest $40 million in North American Jewish day schools (JTA) — Citing “a major crisis in Jewish education,” Israel’s Diaspora ministry plans to pour about $40 million into training educators at Jewish schools… By Jackie Hajdenberg, Philissa Cramer May 19, 2023
California Conservative rabbinical school to relocate near L.A.'s Pico-Robertson (JTA) — Following the sale of its Bel Air campus last year, American Jewish University announced Monday that its rabbinical school will relocate to a… By Asaf Elia-Shalev May 15, 2023
Education National drop in religious school attendance hits Bay Area Jews On Sunday mornings, Jonathan Cheyer takes his 11-year-old daughter to the Palo Alto School for Jewish Education. Compared with when her 15-year-old… By Emma Goss May 11, 2023
Bay Area UC Berkeley hit with public records suit from pro-Israel group An East Coast–based nonprofit dedicated to fighting what it calls “the resurgent problem of anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism on university campuses” is… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 9, 2023
Education JIMENA: halt school grants until antisemitism ed is included in plans A Bay Area-based Jewish group wants the California Department of Education to suspend its Antibias Education Grant Program, which combats racism and bias… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 8, 2023
California Hadar to bring its brand of Jewish learning to California The Hadar Institute, a traditional egalitarian Jewish educational institution, has announced that it will open a branch in California, the latest stage in… By Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA May 4, 2023
U.S. Report: Hebrew school enrollment down 45% since 2006 Updated at 3:53 p.m. Living in Brooklyn, surrounded by synagogues and Jewish schools, Rachel Weinstein White and her husband hoped to find a place where… By Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA Apr 20, 2023
Bay Area Resignations, health concerns led to Beth Ami preschool closure A dire situation that developed this winter at Congregation Beth Ami’s Community Nursery School had 20 preschoolers and seven employees navigating around… By Emma Goss Apr 11, 2023