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Images on Nightly News Pose Challenge
Teaching about Israel was a major topic of conversation at a recent conference organized by the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education. The three-day meeting, held in late June at Hofstra University on Long Island, featured a number of sessions designed for educators who are grappling with different ways to present Israel to their…
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Cultural Exchange Helps Classes Broaden Their Borders
Two Jewish day schools – in different countries, speaking different languages — will launch a cross-cultural exchange this fall that administrators hope will lead to a growing friendship between their two communities. In September, students at the Westchester-Fairfield Hebrew Academy in Greenwich, Conn., and the Jaim Weitzman School in Buenos Aires will begin writing to…
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Internet ‘Museum’ Connects Kids From Around the Globe
The Internet has changed how people shop, communicate, date and play. Rabbi Miriam Ancis is hoping it can change how students learn. Ancis is the creator of Toldot, a Web site (www.toldot.org) that bills itself as “The Jewish Museum of the Next Generation.” She designed the site to enrich the typical Jewish education and to…
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Program Trains Teachers To Use Students’ Strengths
Rebecca Coen, an English teacher at Yavneh Hebrew Academy in Los Angeles, was going through her lesson one day when a hand went up. The seventh grader whose hand was raised asked Coen to slow down. “I’m having a real hard time with saliency determination,” the student explained. It’s not the kind of phrase that…
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August 1, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • Surrounded by eight gendarmes, would-be assassin Fruma Frumkin was led into the courtroom through the back door when she arrived at her trial for attempting to stab Kiev military commander Novitski. Frumkin refused to accept a defense attorney or to respond to questions posed to her by the prosecution. In her…
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July 25, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • Socialist revolutionaries all over Russia are protesting and demonstrating. Last week in Baku, more than 40,000 workers took over the streets of the city and did battle with government troops. The revolutionaries also attacked a train carrying czarist soldiers, tearing up the tracks and derailing the cars. Government ships were also…
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July 18, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • In the wake of the Kishinev pogrom, a petition decrying Russia’s treatment of Jews was sent to the Russian government on the orders of President Roosevelt. Signed by some of America’s most important public figures, including dozens of congressmen and governors, Supreme Court justices and mayors, the protest petition was brought…
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July 11, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • When it was first announced that Mother Jones and her army of child protesters would be descending on Trenton, N.J., to demonstrate against the exploitation of child labor in the mills, the mayor declared that they were not wanted there. However, after being visited by Mother Jones, the mayor changed his…
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July 4, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • After a long wait, the Jews of the Lower East Side finally have a park they can call their own. Seward Park, located on East Broadway, opened this week without much fanfare. The park is a godsend for the thousands of residents who seek respite from the stifling air in their…
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Why the Democratic Party Needs Generation Y
Just months before the 2002 election, Danny Goldberg, the music industry macher who shells out big bucks to progressive causes, received an invitation to a Democratic Party fundraiser. It featured the following Franklin Delano Roosevelt quote: “Never before in modern history have the essential differences between the two major political parties stood out in such…
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June 27, 2003
100 YEARS AGO • A lynch mob of about 4,000 men, women and children broke into the Wilmington, Del., jail and dragged out George White, who was black, and burned him alive on a bonfire. White had been accused of raping and killing the daughter of a local reverend. His trial had been scheduled for…
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