Oklahoma

'Hate has no place': Oklahoma signs IHRA definition of antisemitism into state law

“We can’t combat what we can’t define. This framework is going to help us understand what is and isn’t antisemitism.”

 Emily Gise, R-Oklahoma City, carried both Senate Bill 942 and Senate Bill 991 on the House floor.
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Afghan national pleads guitly to plotting 'ISIS-inspired' US election-day terror attack

 THE LOGON presentation of  ‘Oklahoma.’

'Oklahoma!' shines in Israel: LOGON’s latest musical triumph

Oklahoma Senate Majority Floor Leader Julie Daniels, CAM Founder Adam Beren, State Senator Kristen Thompson, CAM CEO Sacha Roytman, and State Representative Emily Gise stand for a group photo inside the Oklahoma State Capitol, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Feb. 19, 2025.

Oklahoma advances two bills that would solidify IHRA antisemitism definition into state law


A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years

The museum said the remains likely dated back to before the year 2000, when it was more common for museums to accept human remains into their collections.

 The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 1, 2014.

Oklahoma amends request for Bibles in public schools, removes Trump-endorsed Bible specifications

State Superintendent Ryan Walters said, "The left-wing media hates Donald Trump so much, and they hate the Bible so much, they will lie and go to any means necessary to stop this from happening."

 An illustrative image of a holy Bible.

Artifact confirming Jewish King David as historical figure on display in Edmond, Oklahoma

The Tel Dan Stele, a key biblical artifact, will be displayed at Herbert W. Armstrong College from September 22 to November 25.

 The victory stele discovered by Avraham Biran in 1993 in northern Israel. The inscription on the stele provided the first confirmation of King David as a historical figure.

Oklahoma University evacuated over anti-Israel bomb scare

The message left by the suspicious package read "Ignore this like you do genocide. 28,000 and counting. Silence is complicity."

Gould Hall on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma (United States).

Tallest US skyscraper to rise in Oklahoma city, not New York

Oklahoma City surprises with plans for the tallest building in the US. A symbol of growth, it will offer unique attractions for visitors.

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Hanukkah vignettes: Scenes of the Festival of Lights in years past

As the sun disappeared that day, a large hanukkiah was rolled out. Eight giant candles and one more for the shamash.

 JUBILANT RESIDENTS of Tel Aviv celebrate with what would become the Israeli flag after the UN decision to approve the partition of Palestine, November 29, 1947.

Oklahoma Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU

Decisions to include PragerU content in school curriculums have been met with much controversy due to many disagreeing with the content that is included in the curriculum.

 Dennis Prager speaking with attendees at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Oklahoma boy discovers fish with 'human-like' teeth

Charlie Clinton, 11, was reportedly fishing in an Oklahoma City neighborhood pond when he caught a pacu, which is an invasive fish linked closely to piranhas.

 Fish feeding on a dying D. setosum urchin in the Mediterranean Sea

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.