Education
“Mr. Reilly is an anti-Semite who has no business being involved in children’s education,” said Pastor David McGarrah of the Idaho Chapter of Christians United for Israel
Charles Jacobs, president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, said ethnic-studies and racial-justice curricula as constructed are “poisonous to American society; they promote tribalism and racism.”
The program can fill a void, as some studies estimate that less than 50 percent of youth are currently in religious or day school.
Thousands call on California Gov. Newsom to veto ethnic-studies bill ahead of deadline
The California legislature recently voted to advance the controversial AB 101; the governor has until Oct. 10 to take action regarding it.
Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America, said “excluding religious-school students from a state aid program that benefits other private-school students is discriminatory and unconstitutional.”
It will work with Université Internationale de Rabat to collaborate on the study of Moroccan Jewry, in addition to research and education.
“Every member of the Jewish community in California and across the country should be deeply concerned about the passage of AB 101,” said AMCHA Initiative director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin.
Purchase of Hungarian Jewish artifacts rescues them from auction block
Not yet digitized or available elsewhere, these documents will present valuable contributions to historical and genealogical research.
“We rely heavily on primary-source documents, firsthand accounts, survivor testimony, eyewitness reports at the time photographs taken at the time,” said teacher Rachel Pignato. “We don’t want to really rely on some other person’s perspective of what happened. We want to hear from the people who went through it. So that becomes a cornerstone of the course.”
Eytan Stibbe is set to go into space with a small coin from the second-century era of the Bar Kokhba Revolt.
Intelligence gathered by the famed agent was crucial to a 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon in which three top PLO leaders, as well as some 100 other terrorists, were eliminated.
“As part of ‘Rakia’ mission to the International Space Station, I will be taking with me a bag filled with items that have a special meaning to me. It was clear to me that one of these items will be a symbol of Jewish history,” said astronaut Eytan Stibbe.
