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Silas Anastacio

Aug 29, 2026, 10:15 AM

Scholarship Fund Launches Online Drive to Raise R$53.6M, Mobilizes Community

The Scholarship Fund of the Jewish Community of São Paulo launched its annual fundraising campaign on Monday, August 24. This year’s goal is to raise R$ 53.6 million, the amount needed to ensure the continuation of scholarships for 865...

Aug 23, 2026, 10:54 PM

B’Yachad has done its homework on fixing our schools

MK Moshe Turpaz alongside former Prime Minister Yair Lapid at a Supreme Court hearing on the illegal transfer of 1 billion NIS to unregulated ultra-Orthodox educational institutions (credit: MK Turpaz's office)

It may be cliché to say that education is a cornerstone of Israel’s economy and security and the keystone for our future. But what makes any cliché a cliché is that it’s true. The fundamental problem with education in...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 21, 2026, 8:38 AM

What’s Missing in Policymaking and News Production: Complexity

Everyone knows (sort of) that we live in a “complex world.” But what does that demand of us? This is a double “us”: regarding political policymakers as well as individual citizens. Let’s start with legislators, bureaucrats and the like. Given...

Aug 4, 2026, 6:02 PM

Bots, Bankruptcy, and Binary Options

I remember the real Atlantic City, before the casinos arrived. My Mom's aunt lived there, near the bend of the Boardwalk, and we would visit her for a week or so almost every summer. In addition to going to...

Jun 27, 2026, 10:02 PM

When a Nation Loses the World

Some figures are too stark to wave away. According to the 2026 Democracy Perception Index, one of the world’s largest surveys of global opinion, compiled by Nira Data together with the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, Israel received a net...

May 31, 2026, 9:25 AM

The Quiet Weight Israeli Children Are Carrying

In one Beit Shemesh classroom supported by JOIN Israel, an elementary school student tried to explain what the war years had felt like. “There was a war,” he said softly. “And I got scared… a little bit. It was hard....

Bonnie K. Goodman

Apr 6, 2026, 12:48 PM

Israel Needs Teachers. My Memoir Shows How It Treats Them

The cover of My Jerusalem Life, Interrupted, Bonnie K. Goodman’s memoir of aliyah, teaching, housing insecurity, unpaid wages, and the gap between the Israel celebrated abroad and the Israel many olim actually live. Cover Art by Bonnie K. Goodman

My Jerusalem Life, Interrupted and the human cost of educational instability By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS In Israel, the education system does not operate in a vacuum. Sirens interrupt daily life. Schools shift between classrooms and Zoom instruction with little warning....

Bonnie K. Goodman

Feb 3, 2026, 10:53 AM

Discrimination and Power Struggles in Israeli Education

An interactive classroom environment highlighting student participation and guided learning. (Source: Wikipedia Commons)

By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS The Real Israel Exposed, Part V Author’s note: This essay is part of The Real Israel Exposed, a series looking at where power, policy, and lived experience collide in Israeli public institutions. Public education only works when authority...

Bonnie K. Goodman

Jan 11, 2026, 9:41 AM

When Experience Becomes a Liability in Israeli Schools

An empty classroom, emblematic of the broader challenges facing teachers in Israel today. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Teaching English in Israel as an Oleh without a Safety Net In the same week that I was warned my teaching internship in Israel was “at risk,” I interviewed with two American-style schools and a study-abroad program. In those conversations,...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Nov 28, 2025, 7:45 PM

Do Muslim women who cover their faces cut off communication?

AI-generated image; a niqab-wearing student standing in a classroom, with classmates in the background

Religious freedom in the public square is vital, but in the classroom, the 'niqab' gets in the way of dialogue by masking facial expressions

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