Jonah Hassenfeld recently completed his PhD in History Education at Stanford University. He is the Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning at Gann Academy in Boston and a Wexner fellow/Davidson scholar.
Jonah Hassenfeld
By Jonah Hassenfeld
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Community The Complicated History Between America’s Blacks and Jews
One August morning in 1967, Will Maslow, executive director of the American Jewish Congress and a civil rights activist, opened the newsletter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the group famous for organizing sit-ins and the Freedom rides. Maslow felt hurt and betrayed when he noticed a feature titled “The Palestine Problem: Test Your…
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Opinion How Much Does Your Kid Really Know About Israel?
How much do Jewish kids know about Israel? According to a new report, very little. A team of researchers from Brandeis University created a multiple-choice test for measuring Israel literacy. Like so many multiple-choice tests of literacy conducted over the last century, this one found that kids don’t know enough. While most students knew that…
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