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NJ school ‘at best careless’ in missing photos of Jewish students, review finds

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The omission of a photo of the Jewish Student Union in a yearbook at East Brunswick High School in New Jersey was “not purposeful, but rather was a highly unfortunate error,” an independent review of the...

Removal of Jewish students from NJ high school yearbook under investigation

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After the names and faces of members of the Jewish Student Union at East Brunswick High School were replaced with pictures of Muslim students, the New Jersey public school district hired a law firm...
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After Oct. 7, Shoah exam optional for Israeli high-schoolers

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Following the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust on Oct. 7, Israeli high school students will not be required to take the Holocaust section of the history matriculation exam. “Many inquiries were received...
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Yeshivah high schools ask college recruiters to prove campuses are safe

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Universities have allowed a “toxic ideology to fester” that “manifests as aggressive and overt antisemitism,” more than 30 heads of yeshivah high schools wrote in a letter earlier this month. The leaders added that “sometimes even...
Terrorists opened fire at this Arab school in Jerusalem's Kafr Aqab neighborhood, Aug. 29, 2023. Photo used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law.

Palestinian terrorists open fire on Arab school using Israeli syllabus

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Terrorists affiliated with the Palestinian Authority opened fire at a new Arab school in the Kafr Aqab neighborhood of northeastern Jerusalem on Wednesday because it will be teaching the curriculum of Israeli Arab schools. In...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom offers an update in San Francisco about the state's progress on the “Kindergarten to College” program, April 26, 2022. Credit: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock.

‘Too little, too late,’ on keeping antisemitism out of California ethnic studies

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The Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California organized a letter to state leaders in late June decrying antisemitic content that was reportedly finding its way into California’s ethnic-studies curricula, which the state will require...
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Minnesota backs off on challenging religious education

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A new law that sought to prevent teenagers attending parochial institutions from participating in Minnesota’s Post Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program now will no longer be enforced. Loe v. Walz included Christian families and schools who jointly opposed...
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Israel takes home four medals in mathematics competition

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Each member of the Israeli delegation competing in the 2022 European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) in Hungary took home a medal while overall, the team came in ninth place in the competition. The Olympiad, open to female...
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University of California system considers mandatory ethnic-studies requirement

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The University of California higher-education system is considering adding a new admission requirement that will force high school students in the state to learn a controversial and anti-Semitic ethnic-studies curriculum if they want to...
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Roughly one-third of teens in Canada, US think Holocaust is ‘exaggerated or fabricated’

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Nearly 33 percent of students in elementary and high schools in the United States and Canada who participated in a new survey said they weren’t sure if the Holocaust happened, or if it did,...