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London’s Dickens Museum tackles anti-Semitism in new program for students

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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...
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Denmark announces anti-Semitism action plan that boosts Holocaust education

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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...
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Manhattan school calls off ‘Merchant of Venice’ after parents complain of theme

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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...
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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,...
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...
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Jewish groups urge public funding for private schools ahead of Supreme Court case

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Several Jewish groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of a case that could determine whether public funding could be given to parochial schools for secular education. In Carson V. Makin, parents of parochial-school students argued...
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Zeldin urges US education departments to investigate anti-Israel bias in New York schools

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Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) is urging educational leaders to root out anti-Semitism in New York City schools after a pro-Palestinian teacher’s group published a biased statement of solidarity with Palestinians. “I am deeply concerned to...
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Los Angeles Unified School District passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism

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The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) unanimously passed a resolution that denounced anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. The resolution, which was passed on Tuesday, also called on the district to update its...
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Los Angeles teachers union to vote on resolution endorsing BDS movement

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The leadership of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) is scheduled to vote in September on a proposed resolution that urges the U.S. government to end aid to Israel and endorses the BDS movement...
First-grade students attend their first day of school at Paula Ben-Gurion elementary school in Jerusalem on Sept. 1, 2019. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Israeli Health Ministry calls for teachers to take COVID-19 tests before schools reopen

As Israel prepares to send first- to fourth-grade children back to the classroom, the country’s Health Ministry is calling for some 60,000 public-school teachers nationwide to be tested for COVID-19. The testing will be carried...