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How Poland Became Personal

By Ateret Cope / Friday, September 21, 2012 / 0 Comments

In July, Middle School English teacher Jessica Hecht and students and teachers from all over the region traveled to Poland through the Classrooms Without Borders program. This is her story. […]

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Travel With Us To Poland

By Ateret Cope / Friday, July 13, 2012 / 1 Comment

Here is a quick view of the people, places and experiences we had on the Seminar to Poland.

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Dancing as Resistence

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, July 7, 2012 / 0 Comments

Every time a start a project like a blog, I promise myself that disability is one subject I won’t write about–partly because I don’t want to throw a pity party, […]

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Majdanek

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, July 7, 2012 / 0 Comments

  July 4, 2012 When my feet hit the floor and it caved a little, the creak echoing through the long room, the same creak that so many suffering feet […]

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How Should We Remember?

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, July 7, 2012 / 0 Comments

Auschewitz, Fri 7/7, I have just seen a place beyond comprehension. It is different from Majdanek, which oppressively crushes emotion out of us.  Here, the fear is created in the […]

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Another Brick in the Wall

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, July 7, 2012 / 0 Comments

From Majdanek, 3 days ago, overdue, but here it is finally.) It is difficult to describe what I feel after seeing what I have just seen. Most of my emotions […]

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Some Images from Poland

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, July 7, 2012 / 0 Comments

Here are a few images from Poland.  

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Healing and Holiness

By Ateret Cope / Friday, July 6, 2012 / 0 Comments

After Majdanek, while I sat, shaken, Kyle Smith–my history teacher from Shady Side–told me something that I don’t think that I’ll forget. I’d commented on how odd, how seemingly wrong, […]

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Choose Life: Howard’s Story

By Ateret Cope / Thursday, July 5, 2012 / 0 Comments

Deuteronomy 30:19 proclaims “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” My father has often quoted […]

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Finding a Relative

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, July 4, 2012 / 0 Comments

Plung is not an exceedingly common surname. In fact, other than my family, I know of only one other Plung individual, and I assume that, somewhere along the line, there […]

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