Photo: All the students at Pardes Jewish Day School had a hand in creating the Pardes Family Haggadah. Photos credit Josh Mason-Barkin “I am absolutely stunned,” says Izzy Yetnikoff, father of a kindergarten student at Pardes Jewish Day School in Scottsdale as he explores the Pardes sanctuary turned art museum. In early April the entire…
Photo: Students in an engineering class at Technion. Photo courtesy Technion International. The Council for Higher Education (CHE) updated the multi-year forecast of the number of first-year students expected to study high-tech subjects. The original plan, which was formulated in 2016, set 2017 as the base year of the five-year plan. However, since the plan…
Image by DariuszSankowski on Pixabay Israel’s Council for Higher Education approved a multiyear plan to boost internationalization in higher education. The CHE set a goal of 24,000 for the number of international students studying in Israel by 2022, compared with 11,000 international students in 2017, an increase of 118 percent. In order to facilitate the…
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum announced the appointment of Marla Eglash Abraham as Western Regional Director for the nine-state region that includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington. “Marla is a California native with years of successful development experience, and we look forward to her leadership of the Museum’s Western Region,”…
Some children struggle with academics and learning. At Gesher Disability Resources (formerly Council For Jews With Special Needs) their professional staff provides academic supports and recommendations for strategies to help your child succeed in school. Who could benefit from educational tutoring and consultation? A child who has an IEP, ISP or 504 in school; a…
Pictured above: Brandon Esser wears a virtual reality headset and “travels”to Times Square in New York City. How can virtual reality serve education? Gateway Academy will address this question and celebrate school choice at the grand opening of its Virtual Reality Lab at 9 am on Jan. 23. Hundreds of legislators, educators, parents, and students…
Pictured above: Students explore the new playground at Chandler Jewish Preschool. The children that attend the Chandler Jewish Preschool will kick off the new year with a new playground. The ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Daniel Pollack Playground, with Michael Pollack, will be held on Jan. 21 from 10:30 am to noon. The playground was designed…
Pictured above: Boys carrying the Torah at Pardes Jewish Day School. Photo by Josh Mason-Barkin The Jewish Tuition Organization announced that its board has voted to broaden the organization’s scholarship policy to accept recommended funds, effective Nov. 16, 2018. JTO supporters can now request that the money they give to the JTO go to the…
Twenty-five years is a milestone for any institution and Pardes Jewish Day School is thriving as it enters its next quarter century. “We are constantly moving the school to be future ready,” says Head of School, Peter Gordon. “And that means preparing our students for a future not yet imagined.” The power of being in…
Pictured above: Mina Rush, director of community engagement at StandWithUs. StandWithUs has a new initiative for middle school. “LINK: Discovering Your Israel Connection” is a 6-lesson unit that allows students to explore the historic Jewish roots to Israel while discovering their own personal, modern connection. After a successful pilot program, LINK is now in 122 schools nationwide. Director of…
