Education
Ethnic studies model curriculum no longer includes BDS, state officials say
As conflict continues to flare up in the Bay Area and across the state surrounding a draft of an ethnic studies curriculum for public high schools — which…
Education
As colleges go virtual, students instead are heading to Israel on gap year programs
Hadara Bilsky thought she’d spend her first semester of college making friends in her dorm, having discussions with professors and students in class, and…
Local Voice
Why are school boards OK’ing California’s flawed ethnic studies model?
Local school boards are inexplicably endorsing the draft California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum that Gov. Newsom and the state board of education…
Books
Q&A: JCHS teacher discusses his debut novel, ‘Turtle Boy’
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. “Turtle Boy” is a young adult novel just out this month by Evan…
Education
Vallejo school board tables vote on ‘anti-Jewish’ ethnic studies curriculum
During its regular meeting on May 6, Vallejo’s school board tabled a resolution in support of a draft of a statewide ethnic studies curriculum deemed…
Israel
Israeli schools reopen, but many parents aren’t sending their kids back
On the first day that Israel’s schools reopened nine weeks after closing to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Kalanit Taub’s 8-year-old daughter stayed…
Education
Holocaust center loses home at SF Catholic school but vows to continue
When all-girls Mercy High School in San Francisco announced in January that it would close at the end of this school year due to financial woes, it left a…
Education
Jewish Coalition for Literacy gives 1,000 youngsters in Bay Area the gift of reading
Fresh out of college, Joshua Solomin would pass an elementary school every day on his way to work. As a serious reader who’d started tutoring b’nai…
Local Voice
The means of community have changed, the meaning has not
As I walked the other day in my neighborhood, acknowledging I am privileged to be able to do that, I saw posted on a window: “We are inside separately,…