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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 […]