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The article discusses warning issued to Bethany Koval, an Israeli Jewish student at Fair Lawn High School in New Jersey by administrators after she tweeted about Israel, and her violation of Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights for happiness expressed after a pro-Israel classmate unfollowed her account.

International CHOLERA EPIDEMIC SWEEPS [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To the Editor: Re ''Bullying as True Drama,'' by Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick (Op-Ed, Sept. 23): [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Under a new state law in New Jersey, lunch-line bullies in the East Hanover schools can be reported to the police by their classmates this fall through anonymous tips to the Crimestoppers hot line. In Elizabeth, children, including kindergartners, will spend six class periods learning, among other things, the difference between telling and tattling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New Jersey on Thursday enacted the nation's toughest law against bullying and harassment in schools, three and a half months after the suicide of a Rutgers University student drew national attention to the issue. The law spells out a long list of requirements, including the appointment of specific people in each school and district to run antibullying programs; the investigation of any episodes starting within a day after they occur; and training for teachers, administrators and school board members. Superintendents must make public reports twice a year detailing any episodes in each school, and each school will receive a letter grade to be posted on its Web site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After nearly a decade of debate, New York appears poised to adopt an antibullying measure that would require school districts to report instances of bullying to the State Education Department. Assemblyman Daniel J. O'Donnell, who has spearheaded the bill for the last five years, said the notion that bullying was part of growing up and that ''kids will be kids'' was archaic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]