Faced with a continuing financial crisis, the Jewish Theological Seminary has eliminated the position of dean of its cantorial school.

World ORT is investing $12.6 million to install 400 "smart classrooms" throughout northern Israel.

For more than three years Ronen Shoval and Erez Tadmor, classmates at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, have been building Im Tirtzu into a nationwide student network with chapters at nine Israeli universities.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has harmed university education and academic freedom in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel, a Canadian-authored study alleges.