Oklahoma

Backers of Jewish school file federal lawsuit challenging Oklahoma ban on religious charter schools

The lawsuit asks a federal judge to strike down Oklahoma’s ban on religious charter schools and to order the state to stop denying applicants on the basis of their religious character.

Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on January 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board discussed and rejected an application from the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation on Feb. 9, 2026.

Oklahoma attorney general accuses officials of rigging vote on proposed Jewish charter school

Peter Deutsch, founder of the Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation, addresses the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board on Jan. 12, 2026, in Oklahoma City.

Jewish group threatens lawsuit over ban on publicly funded religious schools

Starling's new VTOL drone design for enhanced operational flexibility

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Seven bodies, including two missing teens, found in home of Oklahoma sex offender

McFadden, 39, had been scheduled to begin a trial on Monday for using a cellphone while in prison to send sexual messages to a teenage girl, the station reported.

A general view of the property where the bodies of seven people, including two missing teens and a convicted sex offender, were found in Henryetta, Oklahoma, U.S. May 2, 2023.

Purim: Celebrating the holiday as a soldier, civilian in the US

57 years later, I can still see the faces and some of the costumes. I forget quite a lot these days, but not that Purim.

 THE WRITER served as chaplain at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; with wife, Rita, and children Elissa and Avie.

Bipartisan Senate group to tour Abraham Accords countries

The group arrived in Morocco and met PM ‘to discuss Morocco’s leadership on the Abraham Accords and the importance of the US-Morocco relationship’

 PRESIDENT JOE Biden is flanked by leaders of Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait at the Jeddah Security and Development Summit (GCC+3), in July.

Over a third of all US executions in 2022 were botched - report

One notable execution saw a man, still believed by some to be innocent, having to help the executioners properly find a vein for the lethal injection.

Prison, death row (illustrative)

GOP nominee for Arizona governor denounces endorsee’s statement that Jews are ‘evil’

“Outline and detail the evil. Amen,” Jackson wrote. “The Jews. Illuminati. Covid shots kill. Rothschilds. Communists. Woke pastors. Social gospel. Christ will chuck a bunch of stuff in the fire.”

Arizona State Highway welcome sign

Four dead, including gunman, in Oklahoma hospital campus shooting, police say

The gunman was armed with a rifle and a handgun.

 Emergency personnel work at the scene of a shooting at the Warren Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1, 2022.

Oklahoma legislature advances Holocaust education bill

The bipartisan-backed bill that the House of Representatives Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee approved Tuesday would direct schools in the state to work with Holocaust experts.

Preschool classroom

Remembering the Six Day War in Oklahoma

At Shabbat services, which I conducted every Friday night and Saturday morning, between 75 and 100 Jewish soldiers attended.

BUFFALO GRAZING in the Wichita Mountains near Lawton, Oklahoma – which had 18 Jewish families

After 100 years remembering, last survivors mark race massacre in Tulsa

An estimated 300 people were killed, thousands were left homeless and an entire community that had been seen as a symbol of what Black Americans could achieve was devastated.

Survivor Uncle Redd approaches the soil dedication at Stone Hill on the 100 year anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US, May 31, 2021.

Man charged with shooting woman in back for removing swastika flag released

Following the incident, officers seized multiple firearms and ammunition that Feaster had stored up in his home, by way of a search warrant.

Finnish neo-nazis start their Independence Day march with swastika flags in Helsinki, Finland December 6, 2018.