Education

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Professor Dan Ben-David, a leading economist, warns that Israel’s future depends on urgent education reforms, with the next election potentially its last chance.

This year, more than ever, Rabin Memorial Day is an invitation to a meaningful educational conversation about our collective responsibility.

Professor Marianne Hirsch also argued the Holocaust must be taught alongside Gaza and the "Nakba," warning against “exceptionalism” in Holocaust memory.

JCT’s new technical haredi hesder yeshiva, an offshoot of Beit Midrash Derech Chaim, is geared toward haredi students who combine Torah learning, academic studies, and then military service.

Upon his retirement as president of The Schechter Institutes, longtime ‘oleh’ David Golinkin talks about his Israel impact – via pluralistic Jewish education that goes to the people.

Students are young, flexible, and spontaneous. They can relocate, adapt to new environments, and build new lives quickly. Israel must recognize their unique human resources.

How can careful and early planning make it possible to fund your children’s studies without getting caught in a financial spiral that’s hard to escape?

“In recent years, the State of Israel has ranked first in gaps in educational outcomes, and this is a terrible thing,” he said at the Re-education conference on Monday.

Students across Israel will soon study financial literacy weekly, learning key life skills like budgeting and saving.

New report from State Comptroller claims that higher education's prioritization of research over teaching quality warrants a fundamental shift across Council for Higher Education