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From Berlin to Prague

By Ateret Cope / Thursday, August 22, 2013 / 0 Comments

Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) inaugurated its Berlin/Prague Seminar for educators, accompanied by local students, this June. Despite an airport strike in Paris that caused the group to lose a day, […]

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Empty Space and Memory in Berlin

By Ateret Cope / Sunday, August 11, 2013 / 0 Comments

We’ve been on the Germany Close-up seminar for about twenty-four hours now and it is an appropriate moment for a brief round-up of what we’ve experienced so far. Yesterday was […]

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Questioning Legacies

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, July 9, 2013 / 0 Comments

When our seminar group arrived back in the United States two weeks ago, I grabbed my suitcase at baggage claim, hopped in my car and quickly returned home for a […]

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Strikes?

By Ateret Cope / Monday, June 24, 2013 / 0 Comments

Luggage… you never realize how important a case made of either leather, zippers, and/or water resistant textures that hold your clothes, brushes, cosmetics, and food until its gone. For some: […]

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Talking Points

By Ateret Cope / Sunday, June 23, 2013 / 0 Comments

We experienced what was like a “breathing” thesis. The program began with readings and the lectures; what we learned was illuminated by visiting the place and hearing an analysis of […]

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What would you do?

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, June 22, 2013 / 0 Comments

“What would you do?” I looked forward to this trip as a teacher of history and government, anticipating a wealth of knowledge and personal stories of victims and survivors.  I […]

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Shabbat

By Ateret Cope / Monday, June 17, 2013 / 1 Comment

I’m not Jewish, but I’ve always been very fascinated by the faith. Last year on the Classrooms Without Borders study seminar to Poland, I had my first Shabbat dinner. We […]

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Sweetness

By Ateret Cope / Monday, June 17, 2013 / 0 Comments

If Ohio also had Hansel and Gretel houses and little villages with some variety of church-with-steeple in its center, the bus ride from Berlin to Dresden looks like a bus […]

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History, Geography and Empathy

By Ateret Cope / Sunday, June 16, 2013 / 0 Comments

We departed Berlin yesterday morning after too brief a visit. Within three days, our study seminar participants saw various examples of Berlin’s historical and contemporary significance. The Topography of Terror […]

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Overdue, out of my head and onto the page

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, June 15, 2013 / 0 Comments

I just loaded 500 pictures onto Dani’s computer while she, and others with the energy and will, have been out for a late-night stroll through Dresden, which is lovely, more […]

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