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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

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Hagar Amor, right, nurses her baby while her husband, Tal, sits with their daughter Gaia in a public shelter in Shavei Zion on June 17, 2025 (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
June 24, 2025, 7:37 am
Retraumatized by Iran war and back in shelters, northern families struggle through the days
After returning to mostly normal since the war with Hezbollah ended in November, northern residents and their kids have again faced lack of routine and existential uncertainty
By Diana Bletter
Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walk out in protest of antisemitic incidents at the Los Angeles school on February 27, 2024. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images via JTA)
June 4, 2025, 12:55 am
Ethnic studies compromise opens door to broader antisemitism legislation in California
Jewish groups don’t want Jews painted unfairly or Israel singled out in a new curriculum mandate. Now, several racial caucuses may be willing to help
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Education Minister Yoav Kisch attends a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee in Jerusalem, May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2025, 12:48 am
Education minister unveils ramped-up Jewish, Zionist studies, mandatory Bible class
Required programming to include tours of Jerusalem, West Bank sites, as share of the education budget for Jewish studies upped from 1% to 4%
By ToI Staff
The Texas State Capitol photographed on Monday, February 24, 2025 in Austin. (Elizabeth Conley/JTA via Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
April 18, 2025, 2:14 pm
Texas lawmakers pass $1 billion school voucher bill, dividing Jewish community
Reform Jewish organization says program would undermine public education, while principal of Modern Orthodox school backs initiative to send state money to private institutions
By Grace Gilson
Illustrative: German high school students from the Reclam gymnasium Leipzig read excerpts of the bilingual book 'Der Brief/La Lettre' detailing the results of their research into the life of Holocaust victim Martin Kober at a book launch ceremony in Leipzig's town hall, November 27, 2012. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)
August 19, 2024, 1:30 am
‘Gestapo Game’ at Tim Walz’s school was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject
Amid reports that the VP candidate helped end an outdated role playing game while a teacher in Minnesota, one thing is certain – he condemned such exercises in his master’s thesis
By Andrew Lapin and PHILISSA CRAMER
Illustrative: Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, November 7, 2023. Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on June 19. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
June 26, 2024, 1:09 am
Jewish parents join suit challenging Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in schools
Lawsuit argues that last week’s law violates the First Amendment, and some Jews feel that while rooted in the Bible, the statutes as presented push Christian values on kids
By Jackie Hajdenberg
(Clockwise from top left) High school yearbooks in East Brunswick, New Jersey; Bellaire, Texas; St. Louis Park, Minnesota; and Glenview, Illinois went to press during the 2023-24 school year with material that Jews said was antisemitic or insensitive, ranging from the swapping out of a Jewish student group photo with a Muslim group, to descriptions of the Israel-Hamas war that avoided the October 7 Hamas atrocities. (Collage by JTA)
June 13, 2024, 3:29 am
Most likely to antagonize US Jewish students this spring: High school yearbooks
With some pupils already experiencing antisemitism due to the Israel-Hamas war, the student-produced journals can add fuel to the fire as political activism goes unchecked
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators display signs outside the home of US Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a protest on November 19, 2023, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
March 29, 2024, 4:49 pm
Massachusetts parents say public school teachers union sowing anti-Israel bias
Rhetoric during a webinar last week on ‘The Struggle Against Anti-Palestinian Racism’ was the last straw for many who say students are being ‘indoctrinated’ in the wake of Oct. 7
By Cathryn J. Prince
The front of James Fenimore Cooper Middle School, part of Fairfax County Public Schools (CC BY G. Edward Johnson, Own work).
March 18, 2024, 12:50 pm
US school district offers ‘opt out’ option for Holocaust survivor testimony
After Fairfax County Public Schools email states students can skip presentation, Jewish federation says it was only meant for Jews due to previous ‘bullying, teasing, taunting’
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Chicago high school students staging a walkout in support of a ceasefire in the war in the Gaza Strip, January 30, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 22, 2024, 9:48 am
US investigating Chicago public schools after students’ anti-Israel walkout
Federal discrimination probe also opened into a Massachusetts school district after rabbis and Jewish students complain of antisemitism
By JTA and ToI Staff
Protesters at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, November 19, 2023. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images/ via JTA)
February 2, 2024, 2:34 am
Feds probe: Can US students be suspended for chanting ‘From the river to the sea’?
Latest Title VI investigation relating to the Israel-Hamas war weighs whether it’s Islamophobic to discipline pupils for chanting ‘From the river to the sea,’ or antisemitic not to
By JTA and ToI Staff
Transportation Minister Miri Regev speaks to the media after a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv, January 31, 2024 (Flash90)
January 31, 2024, 3:23 pm
Judge asks Tel Aviv’s mayor to drop ‘time wasting’ libel lawsuit over public prayer
Ron Huldai is suing Transportation Minister Regev for saying he prevented people from putting on tefillin in the street
By Canaan Lidor
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks at a plastic bracelet as he visits first graders in Ma'ale Adumim, September 1, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 1, 2023, 12:39 pm
Netanyahu tells first-graders to ‘be kind,’ as 2.5 million students return to class
School year begins with politicians calling for unity amid political tensions, lack of teachers and a narrowly avoided strike
By ToI Staff
'Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation.' (Courtesy: Anne Frank Fonds via JTA)
June 17, 2023, 6:20 am
Amid push to ban books in US schools, some call new Anne Frank graphic novel ‘porn’
As a movement to police kids’ literature becomes a political force that may impact the 2024 election, the famous Holocaust diary is the subject of a growing number of controversies
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Texas state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, center, is joined by his sons, David and Whitby, during the Pledge of Allegiance in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol on the last day of the legislative session in Austin, Texas, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
June 10, 2023, 3:32 am
Jewish activists lead charge against inserting religion back into US public schools
With over 1,600 bills nationwide seeking to instill religious values in state educational institutions, advocacy groups protest the ‘crumbling wall’ between church and state
By Cathryn J. Prince
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