David Bryfman
By David Bryfman
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Community The use and misuse of Holocaust analogies after the attack on the Capitol
Among other awakenings last week, many Americans received a crash course about the Holocaust in the aftermath of the terrible events at the Capitol. Given recent studies showing Americans’ lack of knowledge about the Holocaust — along with slogans on display among last week’s mob in Washington, DC, including “Camp Auschwitz” and “Work Brings Freedom,”…
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Opinion All education is political. Jewish education should be, too.
All education is political — and so it should be. For some readers, this statement will not feel new. But I imagine for others, it might be rather startling. But consider at their very basic level, education systems are established and supported by governmental entities in order to perpetuate the society in which they are…
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Community Jewish educators will be on the frontlines of the recovery
The Jewish community, like most of the world, still does not yet know when the current crisis will end. We can, however, begin to think about parts of our life that will be different after this period than they were before. For Jewish education specifically, thinking ahead is critical; it will fall to Jewish communal…
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Opinion Engaging Jewish Teenagers Isn’t Hopeless — If We Do It Right
(JTA) — Welcoming teens into Jewish life is both one of the most important and seemingly challenging endeavors of the Jewish community. The rapid decline in teen engagement in Jewish life post-b’nai mitzvah is well-documented and depressing. It’s also an entirely reversible trend, but only if the Jewish community approaches teen engagement in a new way…
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Opinion Free Is (Not) for Me
To use a metaphor that young people will surely understand, one could say that the challenge of Jewish educators today is to ensure that the songs they make available will be ones Jews are willing to pay to download. In the music business, some downloads are offered for free because they exponentially increase audience size,…
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