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Candle & Chronicle Newsletter August 2025
Teach the Shoah is an online Holocaust education nonprofit that specializes in training people to tell testimony-based stories of the Holocaust. Why do we do this? To build personal connections to the stories of the Holocaust. Because we believe that EMPATHY is our most powerful tool against HATE. [redirects to MailChimp]
Speaking At My Childhood Synagogue
The date was April 27, 2014. The place, Beth Israel Synagogue in Salisbury, MD, the synagogue that our family had belonged to since moving to Salisbury in 1950, the year before I was born. The event was the annual Yom HaShoah program, which my father, who survived the...
Breaking the Silence
I’ve been telling other people’s stories in writing for more than 40 years. Telling my own in person… I wasn’t sure about that at all. “You can write it and read it,” I told myself, having already signed up for Teach the Shoah’s class. That was before I realised what...
Candle & Chronicle Newsletter August 2025
Teach the Shoah is an online Holocaust education nonprofit that specializes in training people to tell testimony-based stories of the Holocaust. Why do we do this? To build personal connections to the stories of the Holocaust. Because we believe that EMPATHY is our most powerful tool against HATE. [redirects to MailChimp]
Speaking At My Childhood Synagogue
The date was April 27, 2014. The place, Beth Israel Synagogue in Salisbury, MD, the synagogue that our family had belonged to since moving to Salisbury in 1950, the year before I was born. The event was the annual Yom HaShoah program, which my father, who survived the...
Breaking the Silence
I’ve been telling other people’s stories in writing for more than 40 years. Telling my own in person… I wasn’t sure about that at all. “You can write it and read it,” I told myself, having already signed up for Teach the Shoah’s class. That was before I realised what...
Candle and Chronicle Newsletter November 2025
It’s not often that a Holocaust exhibit changes the way I think about Holocaust education, but the new traveling Auschwitz exhibit made me realize that we have been missing something important. In this bizarre time of Nazi appreciation, we need to be talking about the perpetrators. [Redirects to Mailchimp]
Do the voices of the Nazis have a place in Holocaust education?
The words of the Nazis show us how ordinary people can become psychopathic killers. Can we use this evidence to teach about the perpetrators of the Holocaust without legitimizing their beliefs? [redirects to the Times of Israel]
In Front of a Live Audience
I have certainly done my share of live performances. I minored in theater in college, back in the day. I even flirted with the idea of going into acting. Nothing could have prepared me for what it was like to present a Holocaust story in person for the first time. I...
Living in the Site of a Remembrance
Every day, I watch as people pause to look at the four enormous white pillars in the street in front of my apartment building. These pillars represent the original pillars of the Leopoldstädter Temple, once the largest synagogue in Vienna with the capacity to hold...
Lessons from the Kausenberger Rebbe
The Klausenberger Rebbe, the leader of a Hasidic Jewish community in Poland, was separated from his wife and 11 children upon arrival in Auschwitz Birkenau. Left alone in the world, the Rebbe sat in the barrack, and for the first time in his life, he cried. He had...
Do the voices of the Nazis have a place in Holocaust education?
The words of the Nazis show us how ordinary people can become psychopathic killers. Can we use this evidence to teach about the perpetrators of the Holocaust without legitimizing their beliefs? [redirects to the Times of Israel]
Educating a Crowd
At the beginning of 2025, we saw a drastic switch in policy and national attitude. As expected with the inauguration of a new president, we were attempting to adjust. As the changes became more intense, I found myself participating where I could. I attended a protest...
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