Problem: How can we clean up oil spills from our waters to save wildlife?   Fourth-graders in Mrs. Weiss’s class explore mixing oil and water, while attempting to remove the oil from … more

Kindergarten students in the CAHAL class at HANC have been learning about winter weather, which means snow and ice. Unfortunately (from a five-year-old’s perspective!), we have not had much. … more

HAFTR middle and high school students joined Sharsheret last Wednesday for the school’s annual Pink Day to support breast cancer awareness and raise money for this important organization. In … more

Past American administrations invested so heavily in fruitless attempts to facilitate Arab-Israel negotiations that American envoys came to be known as “peace processors” — that … more

Kobi Marimi, who mixes pop and opera, will represent Israel at Eurovision. Marimi won the Israeli reality show “Kochav Habah” with performances of Bon Jovi … more

There are two well-known verses in Shemot that express the concept of Hashem’s dwelling among the Jewish people. The first instance appears in last week’s parasha, “And they … more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been criticized for cozying up to dictators, autocrats or governments that deny their country’s role in the Holocaust. Among those he has … more

There was a time when Israel and the organized Jewish world didn’t hesitate about supporting left-wing Jewish student groups. Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, groups like the North … more

It is interesting to note the absence of Moshe from the parsha of Tetzaveh. For once, Moshe, the hero, the leader, the liberator, the lawgiver, is off-stage, and the only instance where the name … more

Until 1968, American’s celebrated February 12 as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and February 22 as George Washington’s birthday. These commemorations were then replaced with … more