Innovative Teaching Strategies

Cultivating Tolerance, Growing Together

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on Cultivating Tolerance, Growing Together

This lesson takes place in two phases. In the first phase, students will be introduced to the concept of hate, with a focus on antisemitism through a station activity. In […]

Read More
two young women discussing an exhibit

Key Principles for Teaching Holocaust Education

By Ateret Cope / Sunday, January 30, 2022 / Comments Off on Key Principles for Teaching Holocaust Education

The newly-updated IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust were launched on 4 December 2019. These recommendations, written by a group of international experts, are crafted to help […]

Read More
children in a classroom discussing current events

Helping Students Make Sense of News Stories About Bias and Injustice

By Ateret Cope / Sunday, January 30, 2022 / Comments Off on Helping Students Make Sense of News Stories About Bias and Injustice

Rather than “protect” children and youth from what’s going on in the world, there are age-appropriate and constructive ways to engage them in understanding the situation. This resource offers suggestions, […]

Read More

Israel-Pittsburgh Joint Teachers Seminar

By Ansible Ehven / Monday, January 17, 2022 / Comments Off on Israel-Pittsburgh Joint Teachers Seminar
Read More

2022 Inside Israel: Educational Leadership Seminar

By Ansible Ehven / Monday, January 17, 2022 / Comments Off on 2022 Inside Israel: Educational Leadership Seminar
Read More

TALMA Fellowship for Educators: An all-expense-paid summer in Israel!

By Ansible Ehven / Monday, January 17, 2022 / Comments Off on TALMA Fellowship for Educators: An all-expense-paid summer in Israel!
Read More

Yad Vashem Seminar: Teaching The Holocaust – For Teachers in Supplemental Jewish Schools/Programs

By Ansible Ehven / Monday, January 17, 2022 / Comments Off on Yad Vashem Seminar: Teaching The Holocaust – For Teachers in Supplemental Jewish Schools/Programs
Read More

Peter Gyori recounts Jewish journey

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, October 5, 2021 / Comments Off on Peter Gyori recounts Jewish journey

Classrooms Without Borders and Embassy of the Czech Republic welcome musician and Jewish professional READ THE STORY HERE

Read More

Author and activist Loung Ung shares insider’s look at Cambodian genocide

By Ellen Resnek / Saturday, August 21, 2021 / Comments Off on Author and activist Loung Ung shares insider’s look at Cambodian genocide

Personal tale becomes vehicle for telling ‘larger issues of war and peace, and connections and work’ READ THE STORY HERE

Read More

Playwright, professor, surviving passengers recall SS St. Louis tragedy

By Ellen Resnek / Monday, June 21, 2021 / Comments Off on Playwright, professor, surviving passengers recall SS St. Louis tragedy

82 years later, the story of unwanted refugees continues READ THE STORY HERE

Read More
Scroll to Top