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Alarming study reveals Israeli teachers lag behind global peers substantially in all metrics

Israeli teachers scored below the average for the 18 comparison countries across all three areas examined.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Israeli children going into1st grade, meeting with the new teacher ahead of the first day of the new academic year, at the Pola school in Jerusalem.
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.

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
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

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”.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The main gate to Auschwitz with slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei'