One of the things I find most rewarding as an educator is when a student finally “gets it” – that moment when the eyes light up with understanding, the face animates, and the person becomes truly engaged in the lesson. This holds true whether I am teaching language...
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Candle and Chronicle Newsletter January 2026
“That was the most powerful Holocaust program I’ve ever attended.” A gentleman who attended one of our in-person programs in December sent this comment to Tanya, who organized the program. You can’t ask for better feedback than that. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Innocent Words, Deadly Meanings: How Language Enabled the Holocaust
“Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, yet they accumulate their poison over time.”[1] In the early 1930s, Victor Klemperer noticed a change in how words were being used in Germany. Klemperer was a professor of linguistics at the...

