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A view of the entrance to George Washington High School in southeast Denver, taken in spring of 2008. Credit: J. Pock via Wikimedia Commons.

Vandals deface two schools in Denver with anti-Semitic, racist graffiti

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Police units in Denver are searching for the person or person who defaced a public school with swastikas and anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic messages over the weekend, as well as those responsible for the...
Israeli high school students at the 62nd International Math Olympiad (IMO) in St. Petersburg, Russia. Source: Facebook.

Israeli high school students win six medals (three gold) at International Math Olympiad

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Israeli high school students won six medals at the 62nd International Math Olympiad (IMO) in St. Petersburg, Russia. Israel’s national team finished in seventh place, its best ranking to date, among all countries involved in the two-day...
From left, International Olympiad in Informatics medalists (for 2021) Yanir Edri, Lior Yehezkely, Gonen Gazit and Yoav Katz. Credit: Future Scientists Center.

Israeli brainpower: High school students take home silver, bronze in Informatics Olympiad

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While Israelis are hoping for some Olympic medals for athletic prowess in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, four teenagers won silver and bronze medals in the 33rd International Olympiad in Informatics for their brainpower. Hosted virtually by the National University...
California State Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Source: Screenshot.

Watchdog to legislators: ‘Ethnic-studies bill threatens safety of Jewish students’

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The anti-Semitism watchdog AMCHA Initiative is urging the California Senate Education Committee to vote against a bill that allows high school districts to adopt an anti-Semitic draft of an ethnic-studies curriculum. “Especially now, as violence...
Duxbury High School football coach Dave Maimaron was fired 12 days after the game. Source: Twitter.

Anti-Semitic football play-calling in Massachusetts town hints at long history of ‘systemic bias’

In this well-groomed coastal town, members of the small Jewish community and others are trying to determine why its vaunted high school football team used the terms “Auschwitz,” “rabbi” and “dreidel” while calling plays...
Duxbury, Mass. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Massachusetts high school fires football coach for anti-Semitic language

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A Massachusetts high school fired its football coach on Wednesday and is investigating the use of anti-Semitic language by the team during a recent game. Administrators at Duxbury High School said in an emailed statement that the...
Yehud Comprehensive High School students sit for a matriculation exam, in Yehud, July 8, 2020. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Israeli educators fear that distance learning will lead to ‘lost generation’

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Those Israeli parents who are still working face a near-mission impossible when it comes to making sure their children are keeping up with their schoolwork. According to Joint Chairman of the Parents Leadership in Ra’anana Odelia Shindorf,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr.

Gov. Newsom vetoes California ethnic-studies bill requiring high school anti-Israel curriculum

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would make ethnic-studies courses a high school graduation requirement. Newsom, a Democrat, cited the ongoing pushback over the curriculum for why he vetoed the measure, AB-331. “I value...
Israel's chemistry team (clockwise, from top left): Roi Peer, Bar Sheffer, Ward Yahya and Ron Shprints. Credit: Future Scientists Center.

Israeli chemistry students win gold, silver and bronze at 52nd Olympiad

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A member of the Israeli delegation to the 52nd International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), held this year in Istanbul, became the first Israeli competitor in a decade to win a gold medal at the prestigious...
The Tikvah Fund offers educational summer programs that cater to a range of Jewish students. Source: Screenshot.

Tikvah Fund cultivates future Jewish leaders to ‘animate public culture’

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In the context of the well-known and long-studied shifting American-Jewish identity in the 21st century, a philanthropic “ideas institution” for the Jewish world is investing, on multiple fronts, to educate the next generation of...