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UC Merced Professor Accused of Anti-Jewish Twitter Posts

[aggregation-styles] The Jewish News of Northern California A teaching professor in the UC Merced School of Engineering is the owner of a recently deactivated Twitter account that had a pattern of antisemitic posts, The Jewish News has discovered. The content was described by the Anti-Defamation League as “repulsive” and promoting...

State Schools Chief Announces New Anti-Hate Education Initiative

The California Department of Education is starting a new education initiative to help students better understand and respect people of different races, ethnicities, religions, genders, and gender identifications, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said Monday. Thurmond was joined in the virtual news conference by California legislators and representatives...

Auschwitz Survivors Warn of Rising Anti-Semitism 75 Years On

OSWIECIM, Poland — Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp recalled their suffering as they marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation, returning to the place where they lost entire families and warning about the ominous growth of anti-Semitism and hatred in the world. “We have with us the last living survivors, the...

World Leaders Rally in Jerusalem Against Anti-Semitism

JERUSALEM — Dozens of world leaders gathered Thursday in Jerusalem for the largest-ever gathering focused on commemorating the Holocaust and combating rising modern-day anti-Semitism — a politically charged event that has been clouded by rival national interpretations of the genocide. Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Prince...

Anti-Semitism Grows in Jewish Communities in NYC Suburbs

MONSEY, N.Y. — For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families priced out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have taken advantage of open space and cheaper housing to establish modern-day versions of the European shtetls where their ancestors lived for centuries before the Holocaust. The...

Tragedies Deepen Jewish-Muslim Bonds to Fight Hate Crimes

NEW YORK — Muslim groups helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue recover after a gunman killed 11 people there, one year ago this week. The Jewish congregation mounted its own fundraiser for New Zealand’s Muslims after a white supremacist shooter killed 51 people at...

Jewish Experience Will Be in Ethnic Studies, Thurmond Says

After feeling the heat in a scathing letter from Jewish lawmakers, California's top elected education official says he hears them. At a news conference Wednesday (Aug. 14), state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond vowed to include the Jewish experience in the state's proposed curriculum on ethnic studies. “Revisions to the...

Is Ethnic Studies Plan Too Politically Correct Even for California?

As Americans grapple with shifts in culture and demographics, majority-minority California is developing a high school curriculum in ethnic studies, one of the first nationally. Not long ago — while managing his extracurriculars and winnowing his college choices — Eli Safaie-Kia, 17, found time to discover a draft of it. Its contents were, in some...

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