School board

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.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA, ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
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.
Pro-Israel rally in Victoria, Canada, May 8, 2024.

Toronto community escorts Jewish kids after they receive death threats from fellow schoolmates

The massive turnout was due to a Jewish kid being pushed and shoved and being told that his attackers would "do to him what Hamas did to Israel."

|ByEYAL GREEN
The Los Angeles Unified School District board during a Board of Education meeting, Jan. 29, 2019.

Teachers union halts campaign for LA school board candidate who promoted antisemitic book

A 2022 social media post surfaced in which he praised “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” an infamous antisemitic volume published by the Nation of Islam.

|ByJACOB GURVIS/JTA
The main gate to Auschwitz with slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei'

Holocaust denier running in Minnesota school board election

He sees self-described ‘Holocaust truthers’ as “doing the Jews a favor” by supplying them with the relevant “facts”.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF