It’s 10:30 on a sunny spring morning at Ben Porat Yosef: The Sephardic Yeshiva of Bergen County, and the 3-year-olds are seated at low tables, nibbling on animal crackers. Surrounded by books, toys ...

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For generations of Jewish kids, Hebrew school has meant three or four, often boring, afternoons a week of classroom lectures and laborious language learning in a set curriculum. But thanks to a ...

Laura Yares looks back at the 19th-century educators, mostly women, who developed a new model for teaching American kids about Judaism. (JTA) — As a kid I went to Sunday school at our Reform synagogue ...

Students at Temple Adath Yeshurun spent their Sunday afternoon turning lessons about kindness into real-world action.As part of a Tikkun Olam Day, a Jewish valu ...

Bari Kopman, 8, prefers to be called by her Hebrew name, Leah. She also practices her prayers at home and is on her way to making her bat mitzvah when she comes of age. But there was a time when Tara ...