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Jewish Education

The matchmaking service with a difference

The Jewish Learning Collaborative pairs up people to study – and now it is going international

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educational matchmaker: Avidan Halivni

Keeping clear of kosher tables: a pig out on a stroll in France (Photo:Getty Images)

How the pig became a bête noire

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Lord Winston on a visit to King David High School

Three Jewish comprehensives in Times top 10 this year

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Esther Pearlman (right), head of Menorah High School for Girls, showing then Education Secretary Gillian Keegan around in 2023 (photo: courtesy)

Charedi girls again top the GCSE Jewish school charts

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Wolfson Hillel gives a warm welcome to some new Israeli friends

New twinning programme hopes to deepen pupil’s ties with Israel

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December 5, 2024 18:13

Children from London's Wolfson Hillel and Israel's King Solomon discuss the secret of Jewish survival (photo: Julia Glekin)

VAT on private education ‘could force closure of strictly Orthodox schools’, fear leaders

Pupils usually come from families who are already struggling financially

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December 4, 2024 12:39

Donna Thomas (second from right), head of Hackney early years, visiting a girls school in Stamford Hill (Image: Chinuch UK)

Top Ofsted marks for Charedi school in Gateshead

The Haskel special educational school was declared ‘outstanding’

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December 3, 2024 15:00

Rabbi Avrohom Sugarman of Haskel School receives his MBE from Prince William

Immanuel College plans to close its prep school next autumn

Primary pupils will be offered places at Kerem in new collaboration between the schools

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November 28, 2024 19:11

Immanuel College, Bushey (photo: Ian Jones)

The unique Ethiopian festival with Jerusalem at its heart

Chag Hasigd, which is celebrated this week, is deeply rooted in the Bible, writes Simon Rocker

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November 28, 2024 17:00

Ethiopian Jews celebrating the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem last year (Photo: Flash90)

Refugee charity approved for membership of Board of Deputies

HIAS+JCORE and Jnetics become the latest organisations to join the representative body

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November 28, 2024 12:57

Rabbi David Mason at Limmud (Photo: Gaby Wine)

At 93, Sephardi charity head decides it’s time to retire

In his work for the Montefiore Endowment, Lucien Gubbay helped to restore Orthodox rabbinic ordination to the UK

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November 27, 2024 17:05

Lucien Gubbay

Chief Rabbi urges MPs to ‘choose life’ as Jewish leaders intervene on euthanasia bill

But Progressive leaders explained why they have not signed letters in opposition to or support for the bill

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November 27, 2024 11:47

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addresses an event (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

No more stringing us along! Golders Green eruv is a yes

Campaign for the new Shabbat boundary wanted to raise £250,000 – and got it

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November 24, 2024 12:46

Eruv mastermind: the Federation's Rabbi Zimmerman

Better together: the man promoting the benefits of the JCAT school ‘family’

Multi-academy trusts will remain the way forward for many schools, believes Adam Goldstein, the new ceo of the Jewish Community Academy Trust

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November 24, 2024 10:59

Better together: the man promoting the benefits of the JCAT school ‘family’

Messianism and the second coming of the Donald

Trump is likely to embolden religious hardliners in Israel, who will feel destiny is unfolding

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November 21, 2024 11:10

A congratulatory billboard on November 7 in Tel Aviv (Getty Images)

Doing better: Ofsted finds improvements at two Charedi girls schools

Inspectors report high academic expectations at secondary schools in Salford and London

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November 20, 2024 11:03

Shiras Devorah School's educational programme includes visits to London's Science Museum (Photo: Getty Images)

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