Jewish students in public high schools say they are afraid in the classroom—and frustrated by the indifference of administrators
Jewish students attending public high schools, particularly in Toronto and York Region, say rising anti-Israel sentiment among their peers is leaving them frustrated, and sometimes scared. A Grade 9 boy witnessed a Nazi salute at his downtown Toronto school. A Grade 11 girl found herself avoiding parts of her east end neighbourhood where a former […]
High-tech Toronto day school plans to open next year
A new Jewish high school will be opening up in Toronto at the beginning of the next school year. Named ADRABA, it brands itself as “Toronto’s first 21st-century Jewish high school.”
State-of-the-art sports field dedicated at Montreal’s JPPS-Bialik school
JPPS-Bialik’s new regulation-sized artificial turf sports field and adjacent basketball court were inaugurated at the Côte-St-Luc, Que., school with much fanfare on Aug. 30.
Toronto school flip-flops on flag flap
Students and parents at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in Toronto might be suffering whiplash this week, from watching school administrators reverse course on their decision to first allow a banner proclaiming Jewish Heritage Month, then remove it and finally reinstate it, all over the course of a few days.
Toronto public school responds to anti-Semitic incident
Northern Secondary School, a public high school in midtown Toronto, is being applauded by a Jewish advocacy group for the way it has responded to an anti-Semitic incident.
High school students compete in beit din competition
Two teams from Herzliah High School in Montreal have earned a berth in an international competition, which tests young people’s ability to argue a complex, modern-day Jewish legal case.
Winnipeg school division responds to anti-Semitic incident
Winnipeg’s Pembina Trails School Division responded quickly to an incident of anti-Semitism over the summer that involved students at one of its schools.
Musings on a shuttered Jewish high school
Zev Steinfeld and Daniel Held each discuss the conditions and challenges of TanenbaumCHAT’s tuition drop and closure of its northern campus.
