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Holocaust education

Future building for the JFCS Holocaust Center.
Posted inLocal Voice

Teach Jewish history in California classrooms, and you change the world

Anita Friedman (Courtesy  JFCS) by Anita Friedman October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

Antisemitism is once again on the rise — through hate crimes, conspiracy theories and even open denial of the Holocaust. In such times, one question stands out: What are we […]

woman in front of White House
Posted inEducation

Santa Clara teacher showed anti-Israel video during Holocaust lesson, district finds

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi August 8, 2025August 11, 2025
Pictures of banners  supporting Kanye West's comments about Jews went viral after members of the Goyim Defense League hate group dropped them from an overpass in Los Angeles, Oct. 22, 2022. (Screenshot from Twitter)
Posted inLocal Voice

Kanye West’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song turns hate into a hook

Morgan Blum Schneider, the director of the JFCS Holocaust Center, a program of Jewish Family
and Children’s Services. (Courtesy) by Morgan Blum Schneider May 14, 2025May 14, 2025
Pajaro Valley Unified School District board member Gabriel Medina (right) talks to Jewish attendees of a school board meeting about ethnic studies, April 16, 2025. (Screenshot via YouTube/Pajaro Valley Unified School District)
Posted inEducation

Central Coast school board rejects Holocaust education proposal

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 9, 2025May 10, 2025
Ted Deutch, the former member of Congress who leads the American Jewish Committee, speaking about antisemitism at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, March 27, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLetters

Radicalized hate in Anytown, USA; Ted Deutch on Trump; Etc.

by J. Readers April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
Holocaust survivor and students
Posted inEducation

Bill aims to increase oversight, offer grants for Holocaust education in California

by Ryan Torok February 26, 2025February 26, 2025
Holocaust survivor Joe Alexander shares his testimony with teachers from across California at the JFCS-coordinated California Teachers Collaborative's Summer Institute. (Courtesy)
Posted inEducation

Big push to improve state’s Holocaust and genocide education 

by Sue Fishkoff October 17, 2023October 22, 2023
Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing the formation of the Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Oct. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Newsom's office)
Posted inNews

Newsom’s state council on genocide education, established last year, takes shape

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 2, 2022November 2, 2022
Robin Bernstein's "Beauty and Terror" exhibit will include "I Do Not Say You Are Lying, I Say I Do Not Believe You" (right).
Posted inEducation

Robin Bernstein uses vibrant fiber art to fight Holocaust ignorance

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss September 21, 2022September 21, 2022
An anti-Nazi protest in America, seen in "The U.S. and The Holocaust."
Posted inLocal Voice

Ken Burns’ Holocaust series reminds us we are an anti-immigrant nation

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman September 20, 2022September 21, 2022

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