Education

How Will Lower Merion’s New Kindergarten Program Impact Synagogues and Day Schools?

In the fall, the Lower Merion School District will offer full-day kindergarten for the first time. Synagogues in the area, such as Main Line Reform...

Jewish Doctor Jonathan A. Epstein Becomes New Leader of Perelman School at Penn

Dr. Jonathan A. Epstein is the new interim dean of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the executive vice...

Lisa Richman Continues to Bring Older and Younger Jews Together

Lisa Richman taught at the Perelman Jewish Day School from 1976-2018. During that time, she also served as education director at Camp Ramah in...

YOU SHOULD KNOW…Jared Szychter

The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation is in the early stages of a $9 million endowment campaign and artist interviews for a new mural at...

An 82-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Talks to Jewish Day School Students

Jutka Lefkovits was born on July 31, 1941, in Budapest, Hungary. Less than three years later, the Germans invaded and forced her family to...

Weitzman Museum CEO to Step Down in 2024

Misha Galperin started as a consultant for the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. Then he got promoted to interim CEO and ultimately...

YOU SHOULD KNOW…Ayal Feinberg, Gratz’s New Director of Holocaust Studies

As a political scientist who studied antisemitism, Ayal Feinberg never felt like he found his academic home. Political science departments categorized antisemitism as a...

What Is Going on at Penn?

In September, the University of Pennsylvania’s leadership allowed the Palestine Writes Festival to go on as scheduled on its campus. After backlash from Jewish...

Cherry Hill-Based Temple Beth Sholom Builds Community Through Schools

Alex Weinberg became Temple Beth Sholom’s director of congregational learning in 2010. And in the 13 years he’s served this Conservative synagogue in Cherry...

Why are Enrollments Growing at Local Jewish Schools?

In June, area Jewish school leaders were reflecting on the end of another year when several of them pointed out the same trend: Their...