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Posted inEducation

Why Jews should support the state’s high school ethnic studies curriculum

Rabbi Dev NoilyHazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman by Rabbi Dev Noily and Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman May 27, 2020May 27, 2020
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond (center) met with Jewish leaders on Jan. 7 to discuss the controversial draft ethnic studies curriculum for California high schools. (Photo/Twitter-Rick Hirschhaut)
Posted inCalifornia

Ethnic studies model curriculum no longer includes BDS, state officials say

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 22, 2020May 25, 2020
Students at Nishmat in Jerusalem wear masks and are separated by Plexiglas barriers to protect against the coronavirus. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Nishmat)
Posted inIsrael, U.S., Education, News

As colleges go virtual, students instead are heading to Israel on gap year programs

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA May 21, 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 inLocal Voice

Why are school boards OK’ing California’s flawed ethnic studies model?

Rabbi Serena Eisenberg by Rabbi Serena Eisenberg May 21, 2020
Evan Wolkenstein is the author of "Turtle Boy." (Photo/Fred Greene; detail from book cover)
Posted inBooks

Q&A: JCHS teacher discusses his debut novel, ‘Turtle Boy’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 20, 2020May 20, 2020
Vallejo Unified School District building. (Photo/Rachel Raskin-Zrihen)
Posted inEducation

Vallejo school board tables vote on ‘anti-Jewish’ ethnic studies curriculum

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen May 14, 2020May 25, 2020
Israeli first- to third-graders social distance and bring doctor’s notes at the entrance to their Jerusalem school, May 3, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
Posted inNews

‘The entire system got confused’: Israeli schools reopen, but many parents aren’t sending their kids back

by Sam Sokol and JTA May 14, 2020May 14, 2020
Mercy High School students at the Farkas Center's Kristallnacht event in November 2018. (Photo/Adrian Schrek)
Posted inUncategorized

Holocaust center loses home at SF Catholic school but vows to continue

by Gabriel Greschler May 13, 2020
Jewish Community for Literacy lead tutor Beverly Ark celebrates Read Across America Day with a student at Parker Elementary in Oakland. (Photo/Jo Budman)
Posted inEducation

Jewish Coalition for Literacy gives 1,000 youngsters in Bay Area the gift of reading

by Liz Harris May 12, 2020May 13, 2020
Jody Passanisi and her kids
Posted inEducation

The means of community have changed, the meaning has not

Jody Passanisi by Jody Passanisi May 4, 2020

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