Education
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A letter to the U.S. Department of Education cited a survey by Alums for Campus Fairness that found 75% out of 500 alumni and current students said that anti-Semitism continues to be a serious problem.
The Pulitzer-prize winning author says his Holocaust memoir’s raw telling, seen by a Tennessee school board as objectionable, was crucial to his story’s authenticity and believability.
While Gulf students don’t learn about the Holocaust or the long history of Jews in the region, the curriculum does take the view of a changing Middle East.
A total of 111 incidents were recorded at universities in the 2020-21 academic year—a rise of 59 percent from the previous school year.
“It’s not for third-graders. This is for eighth-grade minds who’ve already had Holocaust education beginning in fifth grade—in the state of Tennessee, that’s when we begin,” said Michael Dzik of the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of Art Spiegelman’s parents, who lived in Poland in the 1940s, and their time in Auschwitz.
The curriculum, adopted under state legislation that mandates ethnic studies, came despite strong opposition from students, parents and Jewish community clergy and leaders.
Almost 3,600 North American students from grades six through 12 participated in the study by the Ontario-based Liberation75.
Each of the 12 stained-glass panels that Chagall donated to Hadassah Medical Center is filled with a dance of intricate images and stunning colors.
500-year-old letter offers rare look into life of legendary Kabbalist
The 16th-century missive, found in the binding of another old volume, seeks to enlist Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi’s support in raising money for the Jews of the Holy Land.
Report: UAE textbooks encourage coexistence, yet Israel still not on school maps
IMPACT-se discovered that peacemaking was “by far” the top priority discussed in the textbooks that were analyzed.
