[Cowboy Bob]

tribute announced over loudspeaker by student

Who was the student?

[nwrep]

I don't trust this story. I wonder if it is just a couple of Jewish parents expressing outrage (the ones quoted) and the right wing ZOA asking for an apology. I am willing to bet most Jewish parents in this school supported the announcement and were happy with it.

I call this kind of a story "fake news from the right", where the NYP is projecting or exaggerating the sense of outrage from Jewish parents in NYC. In reality, only a small smattering of conservative Jews were outraged by it (including perhaps the New York Post authors) - the rest welcomed it.