Birkat Chaverim
Well not exactly a guide to Woman in Gold. However, Yom Hashoah is around the corner and Woman in Gold is a Holocaust related film. You may or may not know that the film highlights the (actual) restitution case of Klimt paintings owned by the Bloch-Bauer family undertaken by lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg. The "Woman in Gold" is the "Portrait of Adele Bloc ...
In honor of Character Counts Week, here is a guest post by Laurie Rappeport about the Irena Sendler Project that both is an example of the piller of citizenship as well as an example of the type of project bnai mitzvah could do. In the Jewish World celebrating Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs often involves encouraging a young person to accept a new res ...
I'm happy to welcome a guest post about Voices of the Generations for Yom Hashoah from Marcia Reines Josephy, former curator and director of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, and longtime Holocaust educator. Disclosure: also close relative. Difficulty of Teaching Holocaust It is hard, oh so hard to teach about the Holocaust and genocide. It is hard ...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has created a (somewhat) new resource for middle and high school students called "Coming of Age in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now." It requires a parent or teacher to sign up to allow students to fully participate and experience the site. The site includes twelve stories of survivor ...