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News L.A. teachers sidestep BDS resolution in decisive union vote
A resolution to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the second-largest teachers’ union in the country met a quiet demise Thursday evening, defying a trend among public school boards that accelerated after the Gaza-Israel war last May. In a meeting of the United Teachers Los Angeles, the union that represents roughly 30,000…
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Fast Forward Duxbury football coach fired for team’s use of antisemitic slurs
The head football coach of a Boston-area high school team has been fired after an investigation found that varsity players for used antisemitic language in a game earlier this month. Duxbury, Massachusetts Superintendent John Antonucci announced Wednesday that Duxbury High School fired coach Dave Maimaron and cancelled varsity and junior games through Monday, according to…
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News Virginia’s largest school system votes down inclusion of non-Christian holidays
The school board of the largest school system in Virginia voted on Thursday against adding four minority faith holidays to the public school calendar. Despite a months-long campaign in Fairfax County by Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu community leaders, the new calendar — approved on a 7-5 vote — will not give students days off for…
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News This school principal refuses to call the Holocaust a fact. A Jewish youth group is fighting back.
In Boca Raton, Fla., an Orthodox youth group is providing high school students with a new Holocaust education program in response to a school district’s rehiring of William Latson, an administrator accused of Holocaust denial. “Southern NCSY is determined not to allow Holocaust denial to become acceptable,” said the group, the youth outreach arm of…
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News Day schools open with safety precautions, plans for closures
(JTA) – For the Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in suburban Chicago, it took just three days of in-person instruction last month before two staff members tested positive for COVID-19, sending the school back to remote learning for six days. Now they’re back in the classroom. That experience of opening, closing and reopening is likely to…
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News Jewish schools across the country are opening in-person — but planning for a second wave
A lifetime ago, SAR Academy in the Bronx became one of the first schools in the country to close down due to the coronavirus. A parent had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and his daughter, who attends SAR’s high school, was showing symptoms as well. Without warning, the school was forced to figure out how to…
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Oct 2, 2022
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A Sukkah, IMKHA, created by artist Tobi Kahn, for the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan is an installation consisting of 13 interrelated sculpted painted wooden panels, constituting a single work of art. Join for a panel discussion with Rabbi Joanna Samuels, Chief Executive Director of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, Talya Zax, Innovation Editor of the Forward, and Tobi Kahn, Artist. Moderated by Mattie Kahn.