Tag: Public School
Maryland middle-schoolers charged with hate crimes for swastikas, Nazi salutes
The Calvert County State’s Attorney’s Office in Maryland has filed hate-crime charges against three 13-year-olds and referred the case to the state’s juvenile services department.
The students attend Plum Point Middle School in Huntingtown in Calvert County,...
Washington school teaches kids ‘antisemitic chants, holds anti-Israel protests’
Syre Elementary School, a highly ranked public school in Shoreline, Wash., near Seattle, taught children as young as 7 years old to chant “Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea,” and instructed...
Educating the Israeli education system
Shrinking the school week, school vouchers and closing gaps in teacher training were just a few of the topics floated by a group of English-speaking Likud members during a recent meeting with Israeli Education...
Jewish family sues Michigan high school for scheduling graduation on Shavuot
For the last decade, the family of 18-year-old Minaleah Koffron says it shared advance notice of Jewish holiday schedules with the Portage Public Schools—a school district in southern Michigan almost halfway between Chicago and...
Amendment to Oregon law adds teaching Jewish history in public schools
In a unanimous vote of the Oregon legislature, H.B. 2905 now adds Jews to the list of marginalized peoples, whose histories and contributions public schools must teach under state law.
The law, which state representatives passed in...
Tennessee lawmakers pass bill prohibiting schools from teaching anti-Semitic ideas
Tennessee passed a bill this week that bans local schools from teaching students anti-Semitic rhetoric.
HB2573 passed the House of Representatives on Monday with 95 votes in favor and none against after the House agreed on...
London’s Dickens Museum tackles anti-Semitism in new program for students
A museum in London dedicated to British author Charles Dickens has started a new program for schools about anti-Semitism that is focused on the novel Oliver Twist and a controversial character in it that is a...
Denmark announces anti-Semitism action plan that boosts Holocaust education
Denmark announced earlier this month that it is launching an action plan to better tackle anti-Semitism in the country.
The country’s new plan includes 15 initiatives, five of which aim at increasing knowledge about the Holocaust and...
Manhattan school calls off ‘Merchant of Venice’ after parents complain of theme
A Manhattan middle school decided to cancel a production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” after some parents questioned whether the controversial play was appropriate for students because of its anti-Semitic undertones, according to...
Roughly one-third of teens in Canada, US think Holocaust is ‘exaggerated or fabricated’
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,...