‘As long as there are final exams, there will always be prayer in school!” So reads the store-bought sign that hangs behind Leonard Stahl, president of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Teachers, in ...

The young zealots at the Kotel (some were as young as 12) are the products of the schools and communities that raised them. We should call this what it is: a form of antisemitism. Anti-Jewish hate is ...

When it comes to change, innovation is arguably the most important catalyst. Irrespective of the industry, the need to introduce something new, the need to inculcate fresh, out-of-the-box thinking, is ...

LONDON — A recent graduate of the Yeshivat Maharat Orthodox rabbinical school in New York has been effectively banned from teaching at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS), whose president is UK ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Greece news every morning. Damned as a “wretched man” and “religious racist” who should be excommunicated, Greece’s minister of ...

It all happened very fast. In the middle of 2009 Dmitry Medvedev, the then president of Russia, said ‘Let it be’ and by September 2010 the Ministry of Education responded, ‘Thy will be done,’ and set ...

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