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A woman watches Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO's director-general, speak during an online commemoration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Dublin, Jan. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Artur Widak-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inEducation

German teens and young adults are interested in learning about the Holocaust — but they want new ways to do so

by Toby Axelrod and JTA February 2, 2022
Abraham Falk-Rood in his classroom at Rudsdale Newcomer High School in Oakland.
Posted inEducation

Q&A: He teaches immigrant teens who live on their own

by Liz Harris October 26, 2021October 26, 2021
The Texas State Capitol rotunda. Teachers in a Texas school district wondered whether "Number the Stars," a Holocaust novel, would require an "opposing" perspective under the terms of a new education law there. (Photo/JTA-Tamir Kalifa-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Texas official to teachers: State law requires teaching ‘opposing’ views on the Holocaust

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA October 15, 2021October 18, 2021
UC Merced professor Abbas Ghassemi. (Photo/Courtesy UC Merced)
Posted inNews

UC Merced prof with antisemitic tweets now under formal investigation

by Gabriel Greschler August 4, 2021August 5, 2021
Ron Wornick reads to a class at the school that bears his name. (Photo/ Courtesy Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School)
Posted inEducation

Passionate about education, Ronald C. Wornick dies at 89

by Dan Pine August 3, 2021August 4, 2021
A rose is placed on the Berlin Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Maja Hitij-Getty Images)
Posted inYouth Voice

Age 16, never heard of the Holocaust? Our nation has a problem.

Madeleine Rose by Madeleine Rose July 15, 2021July 15, 2021
Rabbi Dorothy Richman teaches a Talmud course in 2013 offered through HaMaqom (then called Lehrhaus Judaica), which has announced it will close at the end of its 2021 summer term. (Photo/File)
Posted inEducation

Decision to close HaMaqom ‘irreversible,’ leadership says

by Sue Fishkoff June 22, 2021June 23, 2021
A restored classroom in Pine Grove School in South Carolina's Richland County, one of the "Rosenwald schools" funded by the Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to educate Black children in the segregated South. (Photo/Andrew Feiler)
Posted inHistory

One photographer’s mission to preserve the legacy of the Rosenwald schools

by Dave Schechter and JTA April 15, 2021
Students at Alameda High School are using social media to call out fellow students who have shared racist and antisemitic messages on social media. (Screenshots/Courtesy) Background: Alameda High School (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inEducation

Alameda High parents and students call out another round of racist, antisemitic posts

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 6, 2021April 12, 2021
School buses in Boston lined up on the first day of school in 2014. (Photo/JTA-David L Ryan-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inRosh Hashanah

Where Rosh Hashanah falls on the first day of school, districts wrestle with whether to change their plans

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA March 8, 2021

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