Oklahoma

Tulsa’s Jewish community pushes back on Oklahoma Jewish charter school proposal

“To bypass community consultation in favor of an externally driven initiative is a serious error,” the community stated.

Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on Jan. 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City.
Boys in the hallway at Jewish day school

Oklahoma board to vote on application for religious Jewish charter school

Sunny view of the Tulsa Route 66 Sign at Oklahoma.

Lech L'Tulsa program provides pathway for Jewish Canadians to escape surging antisemitism

The Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Archaeologists uncover 15,000 unexpected artifacts beneath Tulsa cemetery


Four dead, including gunman, in Oklahoma hospital campus shooting, police say

The gunman was armed with a rifle and a handgun.

 Emergency personnel work at the scene of a shooting at the Warren Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1, 2022.

Oklahoma legislature advances Holocaust education bill

The bipartisan-backed bill that the House of Representatives Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee approved Tuesday would direct schools in the state to work with Holocaust experts.

Preschool classroom

Remembering the Six Day War in Oklahoma

At Shabbat services, which I conducted every Friday night and Saturday morning, between 75 and 100 Jewish soldiers attended.

BUFFALO GRAZING in the Wichita Mountains near Lawton, Oklahoma – which had 18 Jewish families

After 100 years remembering, last survivors mark race massacre in Tulsa

An estimated 300 people were killed, thousands were left homeless and an entire community that had been seen as a symbol of what Black Americans could achieve was devastated.

Survivor Uncle Redd approaches the soil dedication at Stone Hill on the 100 year anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US, May 31, 2021.

Man charged with shooting woman in back for removing swastika flag released

Following the incident, officers seized multiple firearms and ammunition that Feaster had stored up in his home, by way of a search warrant.

Finnish neo-nazis start their Independence Day march with swastika flags in Helsinki, Finland December 6, 2018.

Trump's Tulsa rally crowd underwhelms despite early expectations

Trump campaign officials had said prior to the event that demand far outstripped the capacity of the venue.

A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump shoots a video with his mobile phone from the sparsely filled upper decks of the arena as the president addresses his first re-election campaign rally in several months in the midst of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the BOK Center in Tulsa,

Trump moves Oklahoma political rally date from Juneteenth after criticism

Tulsa, a city important in African-American history, in 1921 was the site of one of the bloodiest cases of racist violence in US history in which white mobs attacked black residents and businesses.

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a campaign rally in Dallas, Texas, U.S., October 17, 2019

Trump faces backlash from African-American leaders on Tulsa rally

In 1921, Tulsa was the site of one of the country’s bloodiest outbreaks of racist violence, when white mobs attacked black citizens and businesses with guns and explosives dropped from airplanes.

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida, U.S., November 26, 2019

Oklahoma City suspect who died in 2019 said 'I can't breathe'

Police officer said 'I don't care.'

Police detain Derrick Scott in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., May 20, 2019 in this framegrab from police body cam footage released on June 10, 2020.

Oklahoma passes anti-BDS bill

The legislation confirms that Oklahoma will not sign any contract with a company, unless the company submits a written certification that it's not currently boycotting Israeli goods or services.

An anti-Israeli protest inspired by BDS