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What Should We Remember – Germany Close Up Reflections

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

How do you manage the enormity of the past? I grappled with this question while on a fellowship with Germany Close Up and Classrooms Without Borders. Germany contains fairytales and […]

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Reflections | Yad Vashem – Reimagining Holocaust Education

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

Reflections by Amanda Dryer & Chaim Steinberg Educators are often reluctant to teach about the Holocaust because they are afraid to traumatize their students. The International School for Holocaust Studies […]

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Reflections | Israel STEM Study Seminar – Discovering the Start-Up Nation

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

Reflections by Avi Ben-Hur, CWB Director of Education This July, we embarked to Israel on our first STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) educator’s study seminar. The goal of this […]

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Reflections | Greece Study Seminar – From Antiquity to a Modern Crisis

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

On September 27, 4:30-6pm, please join us for an event at St. Nicholas Catholic Cathedral celebrating the CWB Travel Seminar to Greece. For more information, click here.  Reflections by Avi […]

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Reflections | Germany Close Up – Young Jews Meet Modern Germany

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

Reflections by Martin Michaels, Emily Richman, Jeremy Adams, Rachel Cohen, Millie Rosen & Jessica Katz. This summer, twenty-six American Jews – teachers, lawyers and writers, women and men from different parts […]

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News From CWB Wheeling

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

During the summer, educators and students from the Wheeling area completed the interview and application process for the Poland 2016 study seminar. The 10 educators chosen are from public, private […]

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McCandless resident, teacher gets lesson in Greek culture

By Ateret Cope / Monday, August 17, 2015 / 0 Comments

When Carrie Zuberbuhler Kennedy’s husband attended a lunch meeting to discuss pro bono work for the nonprofit organization Classrooms Without Borders she didn’t expect him to come home and announce […]

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Back to school: What local STEM students can learn from Israel

By Ateret Cope / Monday, August 17, 2015 / 0 Comments

In a matter of days, Pittsburgh-area schools will open their doors to welcome students and teachers to the start of another school year. But a group of educators will head […]

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Israel 2015 = Amazing

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, July 14, 2015 / 0 Comments

No place like home however, Israel 2015 from the participants to the sites to the Israeli teachers was amazing. I’m still absorbing and reflecting as I plan to sit down […]

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Last night in Israel – Headed Home

By Ateret Cope / Sunday, July 12, 2015 / 0 Comments

Tonight is our last night in Israel, time to pack and get ready to get to the airport in the morning. But my mind is still buzzing with all the […]

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