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bullying
Congregation responds to bullying: ‘It could have been my kid’
On the afternoon of Dec. 2, Jordan Peisner, a 14-year old freshman at El Camino Real Charter High School, went with two friends to a nearby Wendy’s in the Platt Village Shopping Center in West Hills, a popular after-school hangout.
It’s wrong to lobby Sacramento to protect Muslims from bullies while seeking protection for bullies
A few weeks ago, The Los Angeles Police Department convened a Public Forum for 150 Law Enforcement specialists, Community activists, along with diverse Interfaith leaders from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Baha’i and Sikh Communities at the Museum of Tolerance.
The ‘B’ Word: Jewish day schools take steps to prevent bullying
It’s tempting to think bullying would never happen among nice Jewish kids at a nice Jewish day school. But the statistics tell another story.
Teen trio wins anti-bullying contest
Bullying occurs regularly in classrooms and on playgrounds to children and teenagers throughout the world. Cyberbullying on smart phones and social media is more hidden and harder to detect.
Sender of anti-Semitic texts to N.M. classmate is suspended
A New Mexico high school student was suspended for sending hundreds of anti-Semitic text messages to a Jewish classmate.
‘Bully’ documentary to land in theaters unrated
The Weinstein Co. on Monday said it has decided to release its documentary \”Bully\” without a U.S. film rating after failing to persuade the Motion Picture Association of America to change to one that is less restrictive.
The battle to get ‘Bully’ seen by those who need it most
At Sioux City Middle School in Iowa, 12-year-old Alex Libby is the odd-man-out. Seen by his peers as different, he has golden hair, gentle eyes, a wide, flat nose and permanently puckered lips. Together, they might seem to express something both pouty and vulnerable, sweet and sad. Kids are not so kind. “People call me fish face,” he blankly tells the camera in the new documentary “Bully” by filmmaker Lee Hirsch. “I don’t mind.”
Q&A with an expert on bullying
Ron Avi Astor, the Richard M. and Ann L. Thor Professor in Urban Social Development at USC, has been studying the epidemiology of school violence for nearly 30 years. In 1997, he moved his family to Jerusalem for one year to run the first-ever large-scale comprehensive school violence survey in Israel, with his partner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Rami Benbenishty.
Ohio family sues school for anti-Semitism, bullying
The family of a 14-year-old Ohio girl is suing school officials in the state for allowing bullying and anti-Semitic attacks aimed at their daughter.