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Hebrew school

Blowing the shofar for religious school students at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. (Photo/Facebook-Congregation Emanu-El)
Posted inEducation

How a national drop in religious school attendance is affecting Bay Area Jews

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 11, 2023May 12, 2023

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 brother attended, the school has shrunk considerably. At […]

I-280 traffic in the 1970s. (Photo/Flickr-walkingsf CC BY 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

A trip down memory lane in my Hebrew school carpool

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff March 22, 2022
Congregation Emanu-El Forest School participants walk along the Mountain Lake Trail in San Francisco's Presidio. (Photo/Michael Gutnick)
Posted inEducation

Emanu-El ‘forest’ preschool grows out of pandemic pivot

Michael Gutnick by Michael Gutnick March 17, 2022
Ofek Hub teacher Mor Cohen. (Photo/Polaris Banks)
Posted inEducation

Jewish class shut down by Covid? Here’s an Israel-focused alternative

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 3, 2021
Jackson Pioneer Jewish Cemetery, established in 1857. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inLetters

Gold Country reporting trip is a hit; Hooray for Quentin Kopp; Sore about Soros; etc.

by J. Readers December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
A Nov. 2020 session of Temple Isaiah's JQuest Hebrew school. (Photo/Courtesy Temple Isaiah)
Posted inEditorial

Learning Hebrew in an hour a week? It’s complicated

by J. Editorial Board November 27, 2020November 25, 2020
A recent session of Temple Isaiah's JQuest Hebrew school. (Photo/Courtesy Temple Isaiah)
Posted inEducation

Learning Hebrew in ‘Hebrew school’? That’s not always the point.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 23, 2020November 24, 2020
illustration of a book that says "diaspora studies" along the spine
Posted inOpinion

Why was the Diaspora missing from my Hebrew school education?

by Samantha Tener August 12, 2020August 12, 2020
For the first time this fall, students from Mosaic Law Congregation, shown here in 2016, are participating in a joint religious school program with students from Congregation Beth Shalom
Posted inEducation

Reform and Conservative religious schools merge in Sacramento

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn September 19, 2017September 19, 2017
NewCAJE presenter Susan Rancer sits on the floor with a guitar and bunch of kids
Posted inJewish Life

Jewish educators mull finances and innovation as NewCAJE comes to Bay Area

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn July 27, 2017July 27, 2017

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