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The State Opera in Vienna, Austria. (Clive Kim via pexels.com)
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My family trip to Austria was a rude awakening about Holocaust education

Maya Mazin (Photo/Courtesy) by Maya Mazin October 18, 2024October 18, 2024
Maya Mazin during a presentation on her family's World War II history at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School. (Photo/Courtesy Mazin)
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I feel lucky to attend a Jewish day school during such a tumultuous year

Maya Mazin (Photo/Courtesy) by Maya Mazin May 24, 2024May 24, 2024
Images of victims of the Holocaust in the rotunda of Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust museum and memorial. (Photo/Wikimedia CC0)
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At my Bay Area high school, Holocaust education barely exists

Ben Siegel by Ben Siegel December 5, 2023
Pro-Palestinian protesters and pro-Israel counter-demonstrators square off outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, Oct. 8, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Tayfun Coskun-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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S.F. high school student: I feel alone in my fears about Israel

Hannah Coleman by Hannah Coleman October 12, 2023October 13, 2023
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Overhyping antisemitism? Maybe I’m the frog in slowly boiling water

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward March 3, 2023
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10 suggestions for Random Acts of Kindness Week

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I went to Israel for my bat mitzvah at the Western Wall — but an angry ultra-Orthodox mob tried to stop it

by Lucia da Silva and Forward August 4, 2022
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My heart is with Ukraine, and I’m doing what I can to help

Leah Mordehai by Leah Mordehai June 20, 2022June 22, 2022
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For questions about identity, I’ve written my own haggadah

Julia White by Julia White April 13, 2022
A view of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Jan. 17, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Emil Lippe-Getty Images)
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A Bay Area teen reflects in wake of Colleyville hostage crisis 

Samantha Solomon by Samantha Solomon February 7, 2022February 8, 2022

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