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A complaint filed by the Brandeis Center and the ADL to the U.S. Department of Education alleges: "Teachers and staff at BHS organized, promoted, and participated in a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. The event took place on the school's theater steps during school hours on February 2, 2024." (Photo/Screenshot)
Posted inOpinion

The trickle-down effect: Antisemitism seeps into California’s K-12 schools

Rachel Lerman. (Photo/Courtesy) by Rachel Lerman March 25, 2024March 28, 2024

Throughout California and other states, we are seeing a wave of antisemitism directed at children in kindergarten through 12th grade similar to the one that has overwhelmed college campuses since […]

A student's annotated copy of an antisemitic conspiracy text assigned by teacher Henry Bens (inset) at Mt. Eden High School in Hayward.
Posted inBay Area

East Bay high school teacher called out for antisemitic lessons

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 21, 2023January 25, 2024
A postcard showing downtown Highland Park in 1943 or 1944. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Highland Park Archives and Local History Collections)
Posted inFirst Person

Pledging allegiance to the Highland Park of my childhood

by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi and Forward July 27, 2022
Former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy answers questions after his legal case, Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District, was argued before the Supreme Court, April 25, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Win McNamee-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized, Opinion

I’m glad Coach Kennedy can pray at the 50-yard line

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins and Forward June 28, 2022July 5, 2022
Stephen Breyer in his office in Washington, D.C., Aug. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Bill O'Leary-The Washington Post)
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Justice Breyer: Supreme Court ruling in Maine school case could lead to broad public funding of religious schools

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 21, 2022

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