Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE MEDIA     ZOA Settles Federal Lawsuit With New Jersey School District Over Jew-Hatred on Campus – JNS “Hopefully, the Cherry Hill school district will now think more carefully about how it responds to antisemitism,” the Zionist Organization of America told JNS. By Aaron Bandler (January 23, 2026 / JNS) The Zionist Organization of America said earlier this week that it reached a settlement with Cherry Hill Public Schools, a New Jersey district in the Philadelphia area with a large Jewish population, over the latter’s handling of antisemitism. “Hopefully, the Cherry Hill school district will now think more carefully about how it responds to antisemitism,” Susan Tuchman, director of ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice, told JNS. “Hopefully it’ll more effectively live up to its legal and moral obligation to protect Jewish students from threats and intimidation.” The parties signed the agreement, which JNS viewed, in May 2025. But a dispute followed about “how the settlement terms should be interpreted,” Tuchman told JNS. The district, which operates 18 schools and says that it has 10,715 students, allegedly discriminated against a Cherry Hill High School East student identified in the June 2024 suit as L.B. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The student told the school that he faced threats and was “nearly physically assaulted” after posting on social media about anti-Israel statements that fellow students had made. The school and the district responded “harshly” and “undeservedly,” and “outrageously punished him in violation of their own rules and policies, while ignoring and downplaying the conduct of his attackers,” according to ZOA. Continue Reading   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email   DONATE   www.zoa.org   Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2026. All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice