(JTA) — A former student of a San Francisco-area high school was arrested in connection with the painting of graffiti including swastikas on the walls of the school building. Logan Stone, 20, who attended Burlingame High School, was taken into police custody on Thursday afternoon after police received a warrant to search his home, according…
A substitute teacher at an elementary school in a suburb of London told a class of 10- and 11-year-olds that they had “better finish off your work quick, or I’ll ship you all off to the gas chambers,” the Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. The comment was allegedly made on Thursday in a French class at…
A Florida high school principal who was removed from his school in July after refusing to take a position on whether the Holocaust happened is still being paid his six-figure salary by his heavily Jewish school district despite not having any work responsibilities, the Palm Beach Post reported Wednesday. After a parent emailed him in…
(JTA) — Graffiti was painted on the exterior of a historic yeshiva on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim building was vandalized between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, possibly while students were inside. The graffiti included what looks like a clown face, the word “evil,” and a series of letters and numbers meant…
After a video surfaced of California students performing a Nazi salute and cheer, the school system condemned the incident, yet refused to confirm how its students were disciplined, the Washington Post reported. On Monday, The Daily Beast published a video of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove in which…
(JTA) — An Orthodox girls’ school in Brooklyn has installed bullet-resistant classroom doors to keep out shooters. Bnos Menachem in the heavily Hasidic Crown Heights neighborhood is the first of more than 50 Jewish schools and synagogues in Brooklyn to have the 150-pound metal doors installed by an Israel-based manufacturer, the New York Post reported…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on the door of a school in Minneapolis, the 17th incident reported by the Jewish community so far this year. The graffiti discovered on Thursday at the Lake Harriet Upper School in Minneapolis included a swastika and the words “Kikes must die!” The graffiti was painted over on Thursday…
(JTA) — A school district in New York has recalled its yearbook after a new teacher appeared to call Adolf Hitler his favorite person in history in a yearbook interview. The student body of Whiteville Central School District in Allegheny County is 98.9 percent white, the Olean Times Herald reported. Asked who his favorite person in history…
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