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The ADL has thrown its weight behind divisive issues, ignoring its non-political mission to combat bigotry
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They call it a 'watershed' ruling that will support push for public funding of religious schools in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere
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News New York State to monitor compliance with Holocaust education requirements
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, said in an interview there is still ‘a lot of work to do’ on Holocaust awareness and confronting antisemitism
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News ‘I have people who support me’: How a Ukrainian refugee found shelter at an Auschwitz education center
Oksana Naumchuk was supposed to host friends visiting from Poland in her Kyiv apartment this May. All she had to do before then: Finish renovating her kitchen. Now, Naumchuk doesn’t know when she’ll return to Ukraine. “I hate this word ‘refugee,’” she said. “But this is how it is.” Naumchuk, 26, is one of an…
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News Chicago teacher taking indefinite leave of absence following Nazi propaganda assignment
A teacher who had assigned eighth graders to create Nazi propaganda posters as part of a Holocaust education unit, prompting complaints from the lone Jewish student in the class and her mother, is taking an “indefinite leave of absence,” according to a letter from the school’s principal. The social studies teacher, Tiffanie Reschke, had written…
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News ‘One size fits all does not work’: Candidate for NY governor criticizes new yeshiva education guidelines
Congressman Tom Suozzi, a candidate for New York governor in the upcoming Democratic primaries, criticized the state’s newly-released guidelines to boost secular studies in parochial schools and yeshivas. “Most yeshivas perform well,” Suozzi said in a recent interview. “One size fits all does not work.” The regulations, expected to be presented to the Board of…
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News Chicago 8th grader says she was made to draw pro-Nazi poster
It was a decidedly perplexing social studies assignment, even before Gladys Shelby’s teacher told her she didn’t have to draw swastikas to get a good grade. As part of a unit on the Holocaust, Gladys, an eighth grader at Eliza Chappell Elementary, a public school in Chicago, had to design her own Nazi propaganda poster….
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