"Feigelson has joined at least 30 OUSD #Jewish families whose requests for transfer were approved between October and Dec. 19 specifically due to issues related to the Israel-Hamas war, John Sasaki, the #Oakland school district’s director of communications, said in an email to J. last week.
“It’s bittersweet. I feel like we are fleeing like generations of Jews have fled before us,” Feigelson said in a Dec. 14 email to J. when she found out Jacob had been admitted into Piedmont. “I also worry there will be no more Jewish families to fight for fair and equal teachings if we all leave.”