The Croton Chronicle

The Croton Chronicle

Commentary: A battle over how to define antisemitism comes home to the Croton-Harmon school district.

A lengthy letter in The Gazette from numerous religious leaders takes the Croton-Harmon school district to task for not adopting the IHRA definition. But it appears to include some ambiguities.

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Michael Balter
May 13, 2025
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Some readers of last week’s issue of The Gazette might have been startled to see a long and very blunt letter to the editor, from a group of ten local clergy from congregations in Croton-on-Hudson, Briarcliff Manor, and Tarrytown. The writer and first signer of the letter was Cantor Lauren Phillips Fogelman of Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown; she was j…

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