rotests outside the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan.

 A year ago I notified you that Ms. Kurzer participated in both protests outside Park East Synagogue on November 19, 2025, and May 2026, at which demonstrators chanted  intifada revolution,'  globalize the intifada,' and  death to the IDF,' and Jewish congregants were obstructed from entering their house of worship,  Spern told the chancellor.

 Those demonstrations were widely condemned, including by Governor Hochul, as intimidation of Jewish New Yorkers at a synagogue led by a Holocaust survivor. 

The Jewish educator argued that the sum of Kurzer's actions shows a pattern of hostility towards Israel and Jews.

3 Mayor Mamdani attends a candlelight vigil for the victims of October 7, 2023, in Union Square in New York on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post

 Taken together, the synagogue protests at which intifada was chanted, an unanswered OEO [ Office of Equal Opportunity   Diversity Management] referral, disruption of an October 7 vigil, and wearing a keffiyeh in school on 10/7, this is not an isolated incident,  he wrote in the document.  It is a continuing course of conduct by a DOE employee that creates a hostile environment for Jewish students and staff and is incompatible with the Department's obligations under Chancellor's Regulation A-830, A-421, and Title VI. 

Spern demanded an investigation be conducted by the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management or a referral made to the Special Commissioner on Schools Investigation.

 Jewish students and staff are entitled to a school that does not employ someone who joins mobs outside synagogues and then marks October 7 with a political symbol in the building,  he said.

The teacher's anti-Israel protest work dates back to her college years.

In 2024, Kurzer was interviewed by CNN about her participation in anti-Israel protests at the University of Wisconsin, where she was a student at the time. She said she was Jewish and attended Hebrew school as a child, but critics slammed her as  not a real Jew  for partaking in the protests.

Kurzer, reached by phone, had no comment.

Last week, The Post reported on another teacher, Damien Neva, who brazenly posted,  Long live Yahya al-Sinwar'' - praising the Hamas leader who was the architect of the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre - in a group chat, according to a lawsuit.

Neva is now under investigation by city education officials.