Oklahoma

Jewish group threatens lawsuit over ban on publicly funded religious schools

A victory for Ben Gamla could redraw the line separating church and state, establishing the first school of its kind nationwide and opening the possibility for more taxpayer-funded religious schools.

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.
Starling's new VTOL drone design for enhanced operational flexibility

Taiwan teams up with US firm Kratos to build Mighty Hornet IV attack drones to counter China

A wheel loader operator fills a truck with ore at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, January 30, 2020; illustrative.

Trump administration to take 10% stake in USA Rare Earth in $1.6b. deal, sources say

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.

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


Bipartisan Senate group to tour Abraham Accords countries

The group arrived in Morocco and met PM ‘to discuss Morocco’s leadership on the Abraham Accords and the importance of the US-Morocco relationship’

 PRESIDENT JOE Biden is flanked by leaders of Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait at the Jeddah Security and Development Summit (GCC+3), in July.

Over a third of all US executions in 2022 were botched - report

One notable execution saw a man, still believed by some to be innocent, having to help the executioners properly find a vein for the lethal injection.

Prison, death row (illustrative)

GOP nominee for Arizona governor denounces endorsee’s statement that Jews are ‘evil’

“Outline and detail the evil. Amen,” Jackson wrote. “The Jews. Illuminati. Covid shots kill. Rothschilds. Communists. Woke pastors. Social gospel. Christ will chuck a bunch of stuff in the fire.”

Arizona State Highway welcome sign

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