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Posted inBay Area

What motivated the teenagers who made the ‘human swastika’ in San Jose? 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 11, 2025December 11, 2025

Eight teenagers laid down on a sports field in San Jose and formed a swastika with their bodies, which they photographed and posted to social media last week, along with […]

exterior of University High School
Posted inBay Area

Lawsuit, letter allege persistent antisemitism at private high school in S.F.

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 21, 2025November 21, 2025
Redwood High School  is one of several high schools in the Tamalpais Union High School District. (ResearcherQ via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inEducation

Marin teacher told class there were ‘too many Jews’ in the district

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 15, 2025May 19, 2025
man writing on table
Posted inYouth Voice

Finding my voice as a Jewish teen, even when it feels safer to stay quiet

by Leor Hersh April 10, 2025April 14, 2025
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesperson for the anti-Zionist haredi sect Neturei Karta, in an Al-Jazeera video shown to high school students in San Jose. (Screenshot)
Posted inBay Area

State probe: Two San Jose teachers’ lessons ‘discriminated’ against Jews

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 8, 2025April 15, 2025
Julian Berkowitz-Sklar
Posted inPhilanthropy

3 Bay Area Jewish teens win $36,000 Diller Teen awards for social justice projects

by Jordan Greene June 28, 2023June 29, 2023
11th-graders Mirabai Ari (left) and Ben Imershein with their adopted drain, "Drain and Abel" (Photo/Courtesy JCHS)
Posted inEducation

‘Drain and Abel’: JCHS students join city’s punny ‘Adopt-A-Drain’ program

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 12, 2023January 12, 2023
Napa Valley Unified School District offices at the original Napa Union High School. (Photo/nvusd.k12.ca.us)
Posted inEducation

Napa schools OK contract with breakaway ethnic studies group

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 6, 2022May 12, 2022
A Jewish student reads a statement in opposition to a resolution for a consulting contract between the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition and the Castro Valley school district. (Screenshot)
Posted inEducation

Castro Valley school board approves contract with ‘liberated’ ethnic studies group

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 20, 2022January 31, 2022
Wheatland Union High School District Superintendent Nicole Newman delivers a video message on Dec. 30, 2021, addressing a photo of students covered in swastikas that went viral on social media. (Screenshot)
Posted inNorthern California

Wheatland High takes ‘disciplinary action’ against students after swastika stunt

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 3, 2022January 4, 2022

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