Students at New Trier High School were pleased and excited when Andrew Aydin, a close associate of civil rights icon and Democratic Congress member John Lewis, agreed to speak at their school on civil rights; even more so when Colson Whitehead, the widely lauded author of the best-selling novel, “The Underground Railroad,” agreed to join…
Swastikas and other hate graffiti were found on several buildings on the Shawnee Mission East High School campus in Prairie Village, Kansas last Friday, in what local authorities are saying might have the been result of a rivalry between Shawnee East and rival Shawnee Mission South. “It’s so ignorant that you would bring up a…
None of the Ramones were the most dedicated students, preferring to rock out than to attend classes. But come Sunday, the news site DNAInfo reported, the street in front of the place where the four original members met, Forest Hills High School, will be renamed ‘Ramones Way’ in honor of the innovative punk rock band….
My high-school nickname was “The Jewish Nun,” and it has taken me almost 20 years to see the appropriateness of it. The “nun” part was an accurate description of my high school theatrical career, which was oddly confined to religious roles, including a novice in a one-act play about a convent sheltering Jews during the…
(JTA) — A high school diploma may not be worth as much nowadays as it once was. But for one Holocaust survivor, it’s still extremely valuable. The Holocaust interrupted the high school education of Henry Friedman, a Poland native who now lives on Mercer Island. But this week, at 86, he will get an honorary…
Russia’s education ministry has agreed to provide Jewish students an alternative date for a matriculation exam which took place on the Shavuot holiday. The concession was announced last week in a letter addressed to Berel Lazar, a chief rabbi of Russia. “Students and graduates unable to take the Unified State Exam for religious reasons may…
A Silicon Valley student admitted that he intentionally slipped an anti-Semitic slur into his high school’s yearbook. The student at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif., altered the name of an Israeli Jewish classmate in a team photo caption so the last three letters spelled the word “jew,” according to the San Jose Mercury…
Let’s be real: good old-fashion beer pong got boring a long time ago. Well, some High School students have decided to get inventive and reconfigure the cups a bit to look something like this: “This is what we play at parties. Jews vs. Nazis” -Cape Coral HS pic.twitter.com/ol8FcztcjQ — HighSchoolConfession (@HSConfessionaI) April 27, 2014 The…
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