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Redwood High School  is one of several high schools in the Tamalpais Union High School District. (ResearcherQ via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
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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

Updated May 19 The Tamalpais Union High School District failed to properly investigate allegations that a Spanish teacher made an antisemitic remark during class last fall, the California Department of […]

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
Oakland Unified School District teacher Joshua Diamant at a press conference where parents, teachers and Jewish leaders expressed their distress at a statement by the teachers' union they deemed antisemitic, Nov. 2023. (Photo/Dan Ancona)
Posted inBay Area

Oakland parents (and some teachers) organize against pro-Palestinian activism in schools

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 15, 2023
protesters walk down a street holding a large banner that reads "ceasefire now!" many are carrying palestinian flags.
Posted inEducation

Parents, teachers condemn Oakland teachers’ union statement on Gaza

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 1, 2023May 21, 2025
Bernard Malamud was the author of "The Fixer," a 1966 novel about an antisemitic blood libel. (Photo/JTA-Nancy R. Schiff-Getty Images)
Posted inBooks

South Carolina school district to return Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Fixer’ to shelves after yearlong removal

by Andrew Lapin August 3, 2023August 3, 2023
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 view of San Francisco Unified School District's Mission High School from Dolores Park. (Photo/Flickr-Don Barrett CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted inEducation

San Francisco school board votes to close schools on two Muslim holidays

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 10, 2022August 17, 2022
Demonstrators gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the case of former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy is argued before the court, April 25, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Win McNamee-Getty Images
Posted inOpinion

Coach Kennedy being allowed to pray at the 50-yard line is not good for Jews

Guila Franklin Siegel by Guila Franklin Siegel and Forward July 5, 2022July 5, 2022
Redding Elementary School principal Maurice Gause (left) and teacher Mai-Tien Nguyen (center) at Redding's fifth-grade graduation, June 1, 2022.
Posted inFirst Person

A glimmer of hope from a diverse group of San Francisco fifth-graders

Meta Pasternak by Meta Pasternak June 15, 2022June 15, 2022
United Teachers Los Angeles (background, celebrating the end of a strike in 2019) is one of several defendants in the suit. (Photo/file)
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‘Liberated’ ethnic studies group hit with lawsuit alleging civil rights violations

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 13, 2022May 26, 2022

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