Through the generosity of Classrooms Without Borders and Yad Vashem in Israel, teachers in Wheeling, West Virginia… who teach about the Holocaust …from public, private and parochial schools, gathered for an exceptional learning opportunity. Lea Roshkovsky, a distinguished Israeli educator who has been teaching at Yad…
The movie, Ghosts of the Third Reich, was screened at Sewickley Academy and followed by a discussion led by Film Director Claudia Ehrlich Sobral and Dr. Samson Munn, the son of Holocaust survivors and the founder of The Austrian Encounter. The film concentrated…
Classrooms Without Borders has just completed our first seminar to Berlin in partnership with Germany Close-up. Twenty-five young Jewish professionals under age 35 from across the U.S. and Canada participated in the 10-day study program in Berlin, learning how Germany is grappling…
For the first time, CWB brought a group of top private-school headmasters, principals and administrators from Pittsburgh on an educational seminar to Israel. Although the program followed the successful model created by Dr. Tsipy Gur in previous Israel study tours for teachers,…
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, participants arrived in Berlin in high spirits, prepared to hit the ground…
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 actually the first day of touring/learning and opened with a guided tour…
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 restful night’s sleep after ten days of tremendous activity, historical questioning, and…
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: a trip can be made or broken. So I’m going to share…
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 the significance of the place by both our accompanying historian and a…
“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 learned all this, made new friends, and discovered how much I don’t…
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 didn’t perform the typical Jewish service beforehand, but I still took a…
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 ride through Ohio. Flat, lush and green farmland. The occasional new growth…