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We Have A Great Group Departing Pittsburgh This Saturday! And Heading to The Children’s Village in Karmiel Israel! Keep up to date with the Group, as they will be blogging along their Journey! Stay Tuned!

Students who traveled to Poland last summer to learn about the Holocaust firsthand with Classrooms Without Borders have a mandate from Zipora Gur, the founder of the group: share your inspiration. That’s why teens from Shady Side Academy, the Ellis School, and…

By my count, it’s been 147 days–just under five months–since we left Krakow and landed safe, but certainly changed, back in Pittsburgh.  On the one hand, I’ve very much fallen back into the habits of my ordinary life, just as if this summer had…

To Cease or to Fire? It is possible that by the time this blog goes up, a negotiated cease-fire between Israel and Hamas will be in place. At the moment of this writing, rockets are still being fired on Southern and Central…

By Ofer Aderet Berlin’s most widely circulated newspaper, BZ, devoted its front page Tuesday to an extraordinary display of solidarity with Israel, running a story speculating on what would happen if Berlin were attacked by rockets similar to those being fired at…

I’ve just returned home – to Jerusalem – from our first seminar in Berlin. It has been 12 years since I visited Berlin for the first time and much has changed. For many Jews, such as myself, who are actively engaged in…

When Mark Barga, a history teacher at Pittsburgh Westinghouse 6-12, went to Poland in July as one of the teachers subsidized by Classrooms Without Borders for Poland Personally: An International Study Seminar, he found the experience “transformative,” he says. “In Poland, I…

Inside Israel: An International Study Seminar provided unmatched professional development for 10 teachers from Community Day School, the Yeshiva Schools, Rodef Shalom and Adat Shalom, subsidized by Classrooms Without Borders. “It is amazing to me that what I have studied about in…

The Teen Service International Learning Project at the Children’s Village, Karmiel, Israel, is now part of four local schools’ commitments to include Israel in their curricula. The schools — Shady Side Academy, Ellis School, Winchester Thurston School and Sewickley Academy — will…

Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 9-3 Stephanie McMahon-Kaye is the coordinator of the Desk for Seminars in English from Yad Vashem. She will be teaching a professional development class based on the Echoes and Reflections curriculum at The Trimont, 1 Trimont Lane, Pittsburgh…

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. The adventure started even before we got there. I, along with other teachers…

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