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Sinai head honoured in National teaching awards
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (142+ words) Juliette Lipshaw wins silver award in the primary head of the year class Juliette Lipshaw, the head of Sinai School in Kenton, has received a silver award in the primary headteacher of the year category in the coveted Pearson National…...
Inpectors praise Southend's "happy' Chasidic school
2+ day, 4+ min ago (247+ words) Beis Chinuch Lebonos is a happy place to learn and celebrates cultural diversity, inspectors said Southend's only Jewish school has passed its latest Ofsted inspection. Beis Chinuch Lebonos, an independent strictly Orthodox primary school for girls, was "a happy place…...
UCL axes antisemitism officer post sparking fear of worsening "hostile environment" for Jewish students
2+ day, 30+ min ago (1381+ words) Axed role's remit to be taken over by EDI department run by trustee of charity with alleged links to Hamas University College London (UCL) is axing the post of'antisemitism officer "a move critics claim will'make the'campus "a more hostile environment…...
For me, Amsterdam has been about canals, cycling and Shabbat dinners " not antisemitism
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (231+ words) I think sometimes adults accidentally trap young Jews inside narratives of fear. Yes, the hatred is real but I do not want it to become the defining story of my year abroad Since moving to Amsterdam for my year abroad,…...
Jewish students invited to take a crash course in "real life
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (370+ words) Paperweight is launching a new initiative for people aged 18 to 25 Jewish 18 to 25-year-olds will be able to get a crash course in "real life, thanks to an initiative being run by the charity Paperweight. The Jewish crisis-support organisation " fondly referred…...
Israel Tour going ahead after change in Foreign Office advice
1+ week, 5+ day ago (525+ words) A handful of youth groups have decided to take teenagers to alternative destinations Around 900 16-year-olds are set to go on Israel Tour this summer, following the change in travel advice from the Foreign Office. After almost a year of Israel…...
When Holocaust classes inspire antisemitism
1+ week, 6+ day ago (456+ words) Children are being let down because Holocaust eduction is not being put in a wider context 1, 2, 3 Jew run or I'll gas you; Hitler was right " these are the chants to which Jewish pupils at mainstream schools have been subjected by…...
The Etgar Quiz no 329
2+ week, 4+ day ago (153+ words) Take the last Jewish knowledge test of the academic year Contains material not in the Etgar Handbook 1) The Amoraim explained the Mishnah. Which period did they live in? a) 400 BCE-200 BCE 2) What happened to Alfred Dreyfus when he was finally acquitted?...
Teachers' union backs motion calling for 'apartheid-free zone' in Northern Ireland
2+ week, 5+ day ago (700+ words) Critics have warned of 'Jewish-free zones" as NASUWT members back Israeli boycott campaign Representatives from Britain"s second-largest teaching union have passed a motion calling for "Apartheid Free Zones" in Northern Ireland. The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women…...
Britain's largest teaching union surveys 10, 000 members on antisemitism in schools
2+ week, 5+ day ago (838+ words) Some teachers, though, told the JC that the poll itself made them feel "gaslit" The National Education Union (NEU) has sent out a survey looking at Jew-hatred in'schools to 10, 000 teachers across the country in order to "inform [its] response" to…...