Emanuel School primary bans smartphones

In the wake of unprecedented mental health concerns and evidence linking smartphone and social media use to increased anxiety, self-harm and rates of depression and suicide globally, Sydney’s Emanuel School has announced that the Primary School is going smartphone free. Read more

Who is afraid of education?

Education has been a core value in Judaism from the very start. Read more

Mount Scopus College: “Wonderful VCE results”

The results of over 75% of Melbourne’s Mount Scopus College Year 12 were in the top 20% of the state. Read more

Palestinian terrorists open fire on Arab school using Israeli curriculum

Terrorists affiliated with the Palestinian Authority opened fire at a new Arab school in the Kafr Aqab neighbourhood of northeastern Jerusalem on Wednesday because it will be teaching the curriculum of Israeli Arab schools. Read more

Victorian Government budget to exact heavy toll on Jewish day schools

The Australian Council of Jewish Schools says that a 5% payroll tax could result in an increase of at least 4% in fees imposed by  Victorian Jewish Day Schools. Read more

M-E schools textbooks expert briefs Australian MPs

The ECAJ and Parliamentary Friends of Israel have co-hosted Middle East textbooks expert Marcus Sheff at Parliament House in Canberra. Read more

Labor to tackle antisemitism and to improve Holocaust education in NSW schools

If Labor wins next week’s NSW Government election,  it will instigate new measures to tackle the concerning rise in religious bullying across NSW schools, including a proposed landmark partnership agreement with faith communities. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Celebrating National Council of Jewish Women NSW Division’s 100th anniversary

Whilst NCJWA NSW is not the only organisation in our community to have reached its 100^th anniversary – it certainly is a milestone to celebrate and provides the year ahead with lots of activity. Read more

New scholarships offered to Jewish women by JOFA

JOFA Australia, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, seeks to expand the spiritual, ritual and intellectual opportunities for women within the framework of halakha (Jewish law), by advocating meaningful participation for women in family life, synagogues, houses of learning and Jewish communal organisations to the fullest extent possible. Read more

KKL-JNF host educators from Australia and South Africa

Aiming to empower the future generation of leaders, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael – Jewish National Fund is hosting principals and teachers from Australia and South Africa. Read more

10% of Mount Scopus VCE students attained an ATAR of at least 99

Mount Scopus College has congratulated the 2022 graduating class who have achieved excellent VCE results. Read more

L’Chaim to Life: Josh Burns MP – Education is the way to “never forget” and “never again”

Morry Frenkel speaks with Josh Burns, Labor’s Federal Member of Parliament for the seat of Macnamara, about the motion he introduced calling for all states and territories to follow the lead of Victoria and NSW, and make Holocaust education a mandatory aspect of their school curriculum. Read more

Do religious Jews have a right to reject basic secular education?

After more than a century of biased reporting about Israel, contempt for Zionism, and a lack of interest in reporting about anti-Semitism, readers are right to regard any coverage of the Jewish community by The New York Times with scepticism, if not justified suspicion, of ill intentions. Read more

Keychain provides a link for schoolchildren

Sydney’s Jewish House and JH Kids are promoting the ‘Always Together Program’ to help children’s anxiety around spending time away from their parents as they start or return to school. Read more

Origins of orthodoxy

I have just read Jacob Katz: On the Origins of Orthodoxy. It is an important collection of articles by and about the late Professor Katz, transcripts of interviews, as well as a bibliography. Read more

Is gambling income generated for education questionable?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Melbourne students shine in VCE

The results are in and in spite of the added obstacle of COVID, Melbourne’s Jewish schools have produced remarkable achievements. Read more

Retirement for Daphne Flax after 35 years of teaching at Masada

Sydney’s Masada College has farewelled and acknowledged the much-loved Daphne Flax, as she heads to retirement, after 35 years of teaching Visual Arts at the College. Read more

Faith discrimination bill ‘misconceived’

Australia’s union for private teachers thinks religious schools already have extensive protections and a proposal to boost them is “fundamentally misconceived”. Read more

Adelaide educator receives Gandel Award

Stacey Moros, Head of History at St Michael’s College in Adelaide, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Gandel Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education (Gandel Award). Read more

Celebration of Special Religious Education

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Darren Bark opened the 5^th Celebration of Special Religious Education (SRE) – held online this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, with over 800 participants logging in. Read more

JNF Australia Educators Study Tour Australia-Israel January 2022

The Educators Study Tour brings teachers  and principals from Australia to Israel for 10 unforgettable days of experiential learning about Israel’s rich heritage and the past, present, and future of the country. Read more

Incoming high tide warning

The high priests of climate change are predicting that in the near future we may be engulfed by rising ocean levels. Read more

More than bricks and mortar – we’re creating our bright future

Sydney’s Emanuel School is embarking on an extensive project to redevelop one of its older buildings into a purpose-built 21st-century learning centre. With an increased demand for contemporary pluralist education, enrolments are at an all-time high. Read more

A very sad story with a silver lining for a special student

Next month Access inc. will award the Daniel and Joshua Szwarc Memorial Scholarship to one high school student living with a disability in the Melbourne Jewish community. Read more

Israeli government unveils intricate return to school amid COVID-19 plan

Minister of Education Yifat Shasha-Bitton and Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz submitted to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who approved the outline formulated for Israel’s return to school amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the spiking number of infections in Israel. Read more

Why Victoria’s Jewish community must act to preserve its world-class school system

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IDF warns Gaza parents against terror summer camps

Commander of the IDF’s Unit for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Major General Ghasan Alyan addressed the residents of the Gaza Strip and warned them against the “true face” of the camps run by the Hamas and Islamic terror groups. Read more

Melbourne Holocaust education receives a boost

A $50,000 subsidy for selected schools visiting the Jewish Holocaust Centre (JHC) in Melbourne will have a great impact on thousands of students. Read more

Report reveals UNRWA continues antisemitic hate, incitement in schools

School material distributed by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) continues to glorify Islamic jihad and incite violence in 2021 despite promises by UNRWA that the hateful content would be removed by last November, revealed a report published on Wednesday. Read more

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