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Story Project member Peter Krohn speaks to Wheatland students about his family's experience in the Holocaust. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inEducation

Teens from viral swastika photo face Holocaust survivor families

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 14, 2022March 14, 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
Students thought to be from Wheatland High School seen covered in Nazi symbols (Photo/Courtesy ADL)
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento-area students post photos of themselves covered in swastikas

by J. Staff December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
Shel Lyons, a parent at Carmel River School, is suing the school after it refused to allow an inflatable menorah (left) at an event centered around the school's "holiday tree" (right).
Posted inNews

A Carmel school refused to allow an inflatable menorah at a ‘holiday tree’ lighting. A Jewish parent filed a lawsuit.

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 14, 2021December 15, 2021
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a meeting with Sen. Joni Ernst on Capitol Hill, Oct. 1, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Erin Scott-Pool-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Conservative justices grill Maine on policy denying tuition for religious schools

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 8, 2021December 8, 2021
Abraham Falk-Rood in his classroom at Rudsdale Newcomer High School in Oakland.
Posted inEducation

Q&A: He teaches immigrant teens who live on their own

by Liz Harris October 26, 2021October 26, 2021
Teacher Stacy Pearce released a TikTok video protesting Covid mandates. (Photo/Screenshot)
Posted inNorthern California

NorCal teacher on leave after Holocaust vaccine comparison

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 25, 2021
Ty Alper is the president of the Berkeley school board.
Posted inEducation

Virus and vitriol: Berkeley’s Jewish school board president reflects on Covid

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 28, 2021September 30, 2021
Members of the Los Angeles teachers' union celebrate the end of a strike, Jan. 22, 2019. (Photo/Wikimedia-Mike Chickey)
Posted inEducation

L.A. teachers working to quash a union BDS vote say they’re winning

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward July 28, 2021
Teachers, students and school board members in the Milwaukee area hold a news conference opposing new bills seeking to bar schools from teaching ideas linked to critical race theory, June 12, 2021. (Photo/Flickr-Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association)
Posted inOpinion

Banning critical race theory will gut the teaching of Jewish history

Henry Abramson by Henry Abramson and JTA July 14, 2021

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