At the end of Oct, the executive committee of the Paris-based UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared that it will henceforth recognize the Tomb of the Biblical matriarch Rachel, which is located between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, not as a Jewish holy site, but, rather, as the Mosque of Bilel Ibn-Rabach. [click to continue…]
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After a six-year campaign by the Zionist Organization of America, the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced last month that it will enforce Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in order to protect Jewish students from harassment, intimidation, and discrimination at federally funded schools. [click to continue…]
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If all goes according to plan, the Pre-Collegiate Learning Center of NJ (PCLC) will open next fall in the Highland Park area with 30 Jewish ninth and tenth graders whose families have opted for a Jewish secondary school featuring individualized secular and Jewish learning, an ambitious computer-based curriculum, and all for an annual tuition bill of about $5,000 per student. [click to continue…]
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