In her new book, Beth Berkowitz looks at the Bible and rabbinic literature to reimagine the bonds between animals.

Discover examples of sea life and see how they move underwater in this KS1 Science video on marine animals for primary ...

Did you know that teaching children empathy skills early in life can increase their confidence and help them better handle stressful situations? Empathy is critical to success throughout life and is a ...

Animals have always shared our planet, our homes, and sometimes even our emotions. While humans often see themselves as more intelligent beings, animals possess qualities that remind us of what truly ...

For some, talking to animals is the stuff of fairy tales, cartoons, or quirky movies starring Eddie Murphy. But for Val Heart, animal communication is a real and profound ability — one that can ...

Jewish teachings give us plenty of guidance on how to treat animals. If you own animals, you are supposed to feed them before you feed yourself. It’s forbidden to eat the limb of a live animal. And ...

How Indian Festivals Teach Compassion for Animals reveals how India’s spiritual heritage turns kindness into a way of life. Across generations, people have learned to care for animals not through ...

Animals do all kinds of amazing things—and how they learn do to them has long intrigued scientists. But among non-humans, the true teacher is a rare breed, with only a handful of species, such as some ...

The Program in Judaic Studies proudly welcomes this year's Mytelka Scholar, Beth Berkowitz, and begins her visit to Princeton with this lecture on Monday, February 10. Description Family separation ...

Children are inherently and intuitively curious naturalists. They're sponges for knowledge, absorbing, retaining and using new information at astounding rates. We all know this, but often we forget ...

“Winnie-the-Pooh on Management” by Roger Ellen (Penguin, $14). Pooh meets Peter Drucker. Pooh learns about objectives and how to reach them at the “Bee Tree.” He hears buzzing as he walks through the ...

My goal in this new series of essays is to examine teaching from the ground up. I start, here, with a definition of teaching and with evidence that teaching occurs in at least some non-human animals.