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Conservative flagship’s first woman chancellor, Shuly Rubin Schwartz, to step down in 2026

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025Sara Wood

Shuly Rubin Schwartz, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, is stepping down next year after leading the Conservative movement’s flagship university and rabbinical seminary since 2020. Shwartz announced her decision at a meeting of the JTS board of trustees Monday morning. In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Schwartz, the first woman chancellor […]

At campus symposium, Jewish panelists push back as billionaire Bill Ackman defends Trump’s feud with Harvard

May 19, 2025May 20, 2025Sara Wood

In the days before hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman was to speak at Sunday’s conference on “Jews and Elite Universities” at New York’s Center for Jewish History, some 60 scholars signed a letter objecting that the vocal critic of Harvard’s handling of antisemitism allegations had no place speaking in such a setting. The signers, either […]

What it’s like being the only Jewish girl at a German school

May 5, 2025May 5, 2025Jesse Orine

This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York City to report on issues that affect their lives. Since I’d started as a preschooler at the German International School New York, it had never mattered much that I was the […]

Language apps are putting Hebrew school in teens’ back pockets. But do they work?

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025Jesse Orine

This article was produced as part of (JR)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. For the past 643 consecutive days (and counting), Eden Agulnik has devoted 10 minutes a day to the language learning app Duolingo. On her phone or computer, […]

As ICE targets a Palestinian activist, some Jews are asking if this is the fight against antisemitism they signed up for

March 11, 2025March 14, 2025Sara Wood

The campus pro-Palestinian protests that erupted after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks united many Jewish students, parents and “defense” groups in a national fight against antisemitism, intimidation and the disruption of university life. But as the Trump administration has taken up the cause with gusto — most recently arresting, detaining and threatening to deport […]

2 NYC yeshivas are not meeting standards and must effectively close, state rules

February 19, 2025February 19, 2025Sara Wood

The New York State Education Department is cutting off public funding to two Brooklyn yeshivas and ordering parents to find alternative educational arrangements for their children next year, citing the schools’ failure to meet secular education standards. It’s the most significant set of consequences faced by any school in the ongoing fight between education officials […]