In keeping with our mission, our webinar series will be both an opportunity to connect you with people and resources that can help promote education and action in our community, but all to establish a system of networking where everyone's voice is heard.
Join us in the 3rd event of our Back to School Webinar Series. In this webinar, JewsInSchool and PeerK12 's Nicole Bernstein present the background and origins of the current DEI indoctrination in our curriculum This is a must watch for everyone.
Join us in the 2nd event of our Back to School Webinar Series. In this webinar, JewsInSchool and PeerK12 will do a deeper dive into our JewsInSchool Toolkit to help empower families, students & teachers. We will also introduce steps to organize, mobilization and strategize in your school or district.
In this flagship webinar, we will discuss where we have been and how to move forward. This may be new information for some and review for others, but it will also be an opportunity to heard from people who have been very active in education and give their perspectives. See below for more!
We look forward to continuing our series this summer to prepare for the upcoming school year! Please watch this space as we announce the schedule and opportunities to register our series that will cover ways to engage and make change in schools whether you are a teacher, student or parent.
Our Founder continues to be anonymous, so that she can continue to report on complicated issues without risking the safety of our community and herself. Many of our community members and partners have known "MIchelle" for years. She began JewsInSchool 6 years ago reporting on misinformation in colleges & schools about Israel and in Holocaust curriculum. Her work exposing antisemitism led to discovering a number of issues in the education system that resulted in antisemitism, but were at their root, educational and systemic issues of indoctrination as the result of ideology that had infiltrated our academic system through DEI, ethnic studies and foreign funding.
She became a trusted source in the press for exposing issues in colleges and schools around the world. She began devoting her time to working with parents, students and teachers globally exposing issues of misinformation and antisemitism in schools, organically building a community of Jews who were seeking support during this societal shift. "Michelle" built JewsInSchool into a coalition of Jews seeking change and a clearinghouse of resources and information. JewsInSchool were the first Jewish organization to petition the DOE and OCR on behalf of the Jewish community for k12 reform in America to promote honest curriculum, merit and academic standards. JewsInSchool has been mentioned as a trusted source in CNN, The Times of Israel and The Forward.
Dr. Naya Lekht is a scholar of contemporary antisemitism and works with the Jewish community to foster pride in the history of the Jewish people and create robust education on the history of antisemitism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the remarkable history of the Jewish people. She was born in the former Soviet Union and came with her parents to the United States of America in 1989. Naya received her PhD in Russian Literature from UCLA where she wrote her dissertation on Holocaust literature in the Soviet Union. She is currently a Research Fellow for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, where she works on developing curriculum on Jewish history and the history of antisemitism. She publishes widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict, antisemitism, and the Jewish education. You can learn more about her at her website.
Nicole is a mother of two in San Diego’s public school system, a first generation US-born, bilingual Israeli-American, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, and the Co-Founder of PeerK12, a San Diego based K-12 grassroots advocacy group.
Using personal and professional expertise in the ideological foundation of liberated ethnic studies, historical and modern antisemitism, as well as US foreign policy and Middle Eastern geopolitics, Nicole & PeerK12 help parents across the country advocate against the wave of institutionalized Jew-hatred, anti-American indoctrination, and biased pedagogies in the US K-12 education system at all governmental levels.
Brandy Shufutinsky: "Undercover with Liberated Ethnic Studies" (Feb 2024)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The subversion of the West (Honestly podcast)
Rose Bronstein is a founding board member of Buckets Over Bullying, a nonprofit organization created after her 15-year-old son Nate died by suicide after being viciously cyberbullied by classmates at the Latin School of Chicago. Her mission is to honor her son’s legacy by heightening awareness on the dangers and sometimes devastating consequences of cyberbullying and all social media-related harms through eduction, legislative reform and legal action.
Bronstein’s mission is to expose the misconduct of the NAIS and the private school industry. In many cases, NAIS schools choose their reputations and their endowments over child safety and well being, which has resulted in harming many children and families across the country.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/elon-is-not-alone-in-feeling-betrayed-schools-spread-woke-virus/
After working for Digital Advertising Agencies and Tech start-ups for 10 years, I left to take on my most important, challenging, and fulfilling role: Mother.
When my children entered public school, I knew the importance of maintaining an involvement in their education and I volunteered wherever, whenever, and however I could. It was due to this involvement that I was able to recognize the deep illness and rot in their schooling and in our district early on.
My advice to all parents is this:
Get Involved. Pay Attention. Participate.
The sad reality is that no one is coming to save our children; it's up to us, individually. This fight is NOT our children's to fight. It's ours.
Suggested Summer Homework for Parents:
1) Research your city/state department of education and academic standards. Familiarize yourself with the guidelines and curriculum that's being used across your local schools.
2) Find and connect with other like-minded families and teachers in your area. If a group hasn't been started yet, start one.
Link to my article: https://nypost.com/2023/08/23/wokeness-antisemitism-forced-us-to-pull-our-kids-from-their-city-school/
TBA A deep dive into the specific issues around Jewish issues, education, school boards and activism in public schools.
TBA A deep dive into the specific issues around Jewish issues, education, school boards and activism in public schools.
TBA Dr. Naya Lekht reviews her lesson plan and curriculum for fellow educators.
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