Poland

Arrival & Day 1

By Ateret Cope / Monday, June 30, 2014 / 0 Comments

Thankfully, after delays…I can report that the planes have landed, the first day of touring has concluded, and we have had our welcome dinner. It is 10:50 in Poland and […]

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CWB PLANS LARGEST-EVER POLAND STUDY SEMINAR

By Ateret Cope / Wednesday, February 12, 2014 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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A journey of 4,528 miles begins from Wheeling to Pittsburgh to Poland…

By Ateret Cope / Tuesday, January 14, 2014 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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Poland 2014: CWB-Wheeling participants meet & greet

By Ateret Cope / Friday, November 22, 2013 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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Teachers Workshop: from Israel’s Yad Vashem to Wheeling, WV

By Ateret Cope / Friday, November 15, 2013 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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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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Urban Pathways Charter School students to visit Holocaust Museum

By Ateret Cope / Friday, December 14, 2012 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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Poland: Five Months Later. Now What?

By Ateret Cope / Monday, December 3, 2012 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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Poland: “More special than I can express”

By Ateret Cope / Thursday, October 11, 2012 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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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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