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Jose Medina presenting AB331 to the California Assembly Education Committee in March 2019. Medina is the author of the bill, which would make ethnic studies a high school requirement, and approved the Jewish caucus' "guardrail" additions to the bill. (Photo/Twitter-Jose Medina)
Posted inCalifornia

Jewish caucus inserts anti-bias ‘guardrails’ into California ethnic studies law

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman September 1, 2020September 2, 2020
Cornell University student Aliza Saunders shows off the supplies she got from Cornell Hillel to celebrate Shabbat on her own. (Photo/Courtesy Cornell Hillel)
Posted inU.S.

‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life goes virtual

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA August 27, 2020August 27, 2020
Dana Sheanin is the CEO of Jewish LearningWorks.
Posted inEducation

New top exec at Jewish LearningWorks ready for action

by Dan Pine August 27, 2020August 30, 2020
Colorado Rep. Doug Lamborn speaks at the Air Force Academy in 2009. (Photo/U.S. Air Force-J. Rachel Spencer)
Posted inBay Area

Congressman takes up students’ claims of anti-Israel bias at UC Berkeley

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 18, 2020August 18, 2020
a big glass building with students walking through a lawn in front
Posted inEducation

Newsom signs bill requiring ethnic studies in California State University system

by Dan Pine August 18, 2020August 18, 2020
Meg Keene's son. (Photo/Courtesy Keene)
Posted inUncategorized

Orthodox school challenged by gender-fluid applicant

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 13, 2020August 17, 2020
illustration of a book that says "diaspora studies" along the spine
Posted inOpinion

Why was the Diaspora missing from my Hebrew school education?

by Samantha Tener August 12, 2020August 12, 2020
a headshot of a white man with a goatee next to a photo of a woman using Study.com on her phone
Posted inEducation

Jewish immigrant from Argentina seeks to make college accessible and affordable

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent August 10, 2020August 10, 2020
Lehmann in bright red academic regalia at a podium
Posted inBay Area, Education, News

Was this rabbi too pro-Israel to head GTU?

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 6, 2020August 14, 2020
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 inEducation

Revised high school ethnic studies curriculum mitigates Jewish bias concerns

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 4, 2020August 5, 2020

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