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A middle school student at Brandeis Marin at an outdoor classroom, February 2021. (Photo/Anya Shuteroff)
Posted inEducation

Our Pandemic Year: Jewish day schools had to relearn the ABCs of teaching

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 16, 2021March 16, 2021
State Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond speaking to the press Aug. 14 about the state's proposed high school ethnic studies curriculum. (From left) Assemblyman Marc Berman, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Thurmond, Senator Ben Allen, Assemblyman Jose Medina (Photo/Facebook-Abby Porth)
Posted inUncategorized

Jewish studies profs: Ethnic studies curriculum substitutes political concerns for historical accuracy

Ari Kelman (Photo/Courtesy) by Ari Y. Kelman, Devin E. Naar and Jessica Marglin March 16, 2021March 16, 2021
Members of the Jewish community and their allies protest anti-Semitism at UCLA, Nov. 6, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Ronen Tivony-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

UCLA anti-Israel resolution reveals rift among Jewish students

by Ryan Torok and Forward March 16, 2021
School buses in Boston lined up on the first day of school in 2014. (Photo/JTA-David L Ryan-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inRosh Hashanah

Where Rosh Hashanah falls on the first day of school, districts wrestle with whether to change their plans

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA March 8, 2021
Administrators at St. Mary's College in Moraga have temporarily removed "Falcon Boy" by Fritz von Graevenitz. (Photo/Vanessa Ramirez)
Posted inNews

Statue by Nazi-era artist under review at St. Mary’s College

by Gabriel Greschler February 26, 2021March 1, 2021
Craig Heimbichner
Posted inNews

State education official under scrutiny for Holocaust conspiracy theories

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 26, 2021February 26, 2021
Professor Theresa Montaño of CSU Northridge is one of the driving forces behind the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Institute.
Posted inCalifornia

‘Liberated’ ethnic studies group launches with help from original California curriculum drafters

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 26, 2021January 25, 2022
Feinstein Elementary, named for the current U.S. senator and former San Francisco mayor, was slated for renaming under an SFUSD board plan. (Photo/Google Maps)
Posted inEducation

Renaming of SF schools suspended: Feinstein and Sutro safe for now

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 23, 2021
Students at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton look at art from the center in March 2020.
Posted inNews

In East Bay, traveling Holocaust ‘center’ uses art to tell story of the Shoah

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 22, 2021
Professor Sam Shonkoff will be the first holder of the Taube Family Chair at the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies.
Posted inPhilanthropy

Taube Philanthropies endows new Jewish studies chair at Graduate Theological Union

by J. Staff February 12, 2021February 16, 2021

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