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Sign when entering Kiryas Joel, a Chassidic community in Upstate New York. Source: Screenshot.

NY Times story on Orthodox school finances ‘misleading,’ says school official

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The superintendent of the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District in New York is responding to allegations in a New York Times report on Monday that it misused funds the town allotted for the public-school system...
A display of the book “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. Source: Flickr/ActuaLitté.

Tennessee Jewish group slams school-board’s decision to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’

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The Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga in Tennessee is criticizing a local school board’s decision to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust book from its eighth-grade curriculum. The federation’s executive director, Michael Dzik, spoke about the...
Art Spiegelman. Source: Screenshot.

Tennessee school board removes graphic novel ‘Maus,’ author calls it ‘Orwellian’

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A school board in Tennessee unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Holocaust from its schools because it includes eight minor curse words such as “damn” and an illustration of a...