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Parenting
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

I Get That My Kid's Public School Needs to Fundraise. But I Wish They Didn't Do It in This Wildly Inappropriate Way.

Hosting religious performances and outreach by a church at a public school fundraiser raises separation-of-church-and-state concerns and is inappropriate for public school grounds.
fromThe Forward
1 week ago

When Jews really did wage a 'war on Christmas'

On a frigid winter's day in 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York's Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school. It wasn't a snow day, but a protest: Activists and the Yiddish press had called for a boycott of the Christmas assemblies and pageants that they knew Jewish children would be obliged to attend on the day before the holiday.
History
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