Children’s Village Teen Service Trip – Day 1 By: Rachel Becker We arrived earlier than expected this morning around 7:30 and made it through customs with no troubles. Fortunately, all twenty-three bags made it to our Tel Aviv destination and as we…
For the first time on a Poland Personally Study Seminar, CWB will need two buses: A record number, 80 people, will join the trip led by Dr. Tsipy Gur, two Holocaust survivors, and other CWB scholars June 29-July 7. This year’s trip…
For the first time, Inside Israel – CWB’s Israel Study Seminar – will include not only teachers from the Pittsburgh region, but also educators from Wheeling, West Virginia, a new CWB community. Teachers participating in this year’s seminar are from the Pittsburgh…
CWB participants have the chance to see Prime Stage Theatre’s premiere performance of The Devil’s Arithmetic, based on the book by Jane Yolen and adapted for the stage by Barry Kornhauser. A choice of two performance dates is available to the CWB…
CWB will premiere Farewell, Herr Schwarz, a must-see film, in Pittsburgh on March 30-31 as part of JFilm: The Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum’s Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival. Winner of the Haifa International Film Festival’s Best Documentary Award, Farewell, Herr Schwarz is…
A core CWB program is the annual International Teen Service Trip to the Children’s Village, in Karmiel, Israel. This year’s trip will take place March 16-27. Six students from The Ellis School and Sewickley Academy, as well as an educator from Sewickley…
CWB scholar Avi Ben-Hur will take part in the CWB Educator Reunion Tuesday, March 11, at Community Day School, 6424 Forward Ave., in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The free event, 5 to 6:30 p.m., will bring together all the teachers from public,…
CWB Director of Education Avi Ben-Hur returns in March to offer Pittsburgh and the new CWB community of Wheeling, West Virginia, a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the countries, histories, and cultures that CWB programming encompasses. Sunday, March 9, 2…
Last year, young Jewish professionals discovered modern Germany by traveling with Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) on the very successful inaugural program, Germany Close Up. In 2014, CWB again invites young Jewish professionals to see modern Germany and how it has been dealing…
On Sunday afternoon students, educators and community members boarded a bus in Wheeling to travel to the Jewish Federation office in Pittsburgh and meet with their Pittsburgh counterparts for the first study session in preparation for Poland 2014. The turn-out was excellent…
Press Release Jan 2014 Contact: Dr. Zipora (Tsipy) Gur at 412-915-9182/ [email protected] Classrooms Without Borders And Germany Close Up Subsidize Trip To Berlin For Twenty Jewish Young Professionals Classrooms Without Borders, in association with Germany Close Up, is subsidizing an…
Last night, the social hall at Temple Shalom was filled with anticipation as the 34 study participants and their families gathered to hear about the journey they will embark on in June 2014. Dr. Gur (Tsipy) offered an overview, Rabbi Beth Jacowitz…