Tag: High School
Israeli brainpower: High school students take home silver, bronze in Informatics Olympiad
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...
Watchdog to legislators: ‘Ethnic-studies bill threatens safety of Jewish students’
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...
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...
Massachusetts high school fires football coach for anti-Semitic language
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...
Israeli educators fear that distance learning will lead to ‘lost generation’
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,...
Gov. Newsom vetoes California ethnic-studies bill requiring high school anti-Israel curriculum
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...
Israeli chemistry students win gold, silver and bronze at 52nd Olympiad
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...
Tikvah Fund cultivates future Jewish leaders to ‘animate public culture’
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...
Minnesota high-schoolers apologize for TikTok video mocking Auschwitz
Two high school students in Minnesota apologized for posting a clip on the popular video-sharing app that pokes fun at Jews who were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
In the TikTok video titled “Me...