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Navigating the role of bystander: What can we do?

Deborah Fripp — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:14:37 +0000

I am beginning to sympathize with the people of the 1930s – the people we describe as indifferent bystanders. I am also beginning to recognize that their stories are much too complicated for us to use the word indifferent. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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The Devil’s Confession

Deborah Fripp — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 04:04:41 +0000

Every survivor had a Holocaust of their own.” The world learned this from the testimony of survivors at the trial of Adolph Eichmann. This history is dramatically retold in The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, a new documentary by Yariv Mozer. [Redirects to L'Chaim Magazine]

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When it’s an attack on your own community

Deborah Fripp — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:30:00 +0000

I awoke on Sunday morning in Singapore to the news that another synagogue was under attack. The rabbi and several congregants of a synagogue in Texas were being held hostage by an unknown assailant. An old story, a repeated story – Jews under attack for being Jews. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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How to Teach Race Relations: Lessons from Holocaust Education

Deborah Fripp — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 03:34:08 +0000

A group of 7th graders sit in a circle, white kids in the center, black and brown kids on the outside. They have been sorted by a “privilege” score assigned based on the color of their skin. The white students are trying to find a way to apologize to the students of color for the sins of their ancestors. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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How to deal with antisemitism in our schools

Deborah Fripp — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 03:36:05 +0000

“Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by ignorance, confusion, or ineptitude.” This statement was made by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis in response to a disturbing incident that happened in Texas last week. In a teacher training in Southlake, a suburb outside Dallas, the curriculum director made a surprising statement: “Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing…that has other perspectives.” [redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Changing Times, Changing Celebrations

Deborah Fripp — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 03:37:23 +0000

Sometimes it takes the wrong holiday to get us to the right one. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Stand at the Water Gate with Me

Deborah Fripp — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 03:38:37 +0000

Our ancestors have always moved into the unknown. Their strength and stories help us as we move and grow. Consider a sunny Rosh Hashanah morning, 2500 years ago. Before the ruins of the First Temple, the men and women of Jerusalem gather at the Water Gate. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Holocaust Education for Our Modern Conversation

Deborah Fripp — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 03:47:49 +0000

Twenty minutes. That’s how much time I have to teach a group of white, Christian, Texan women about the Holocaust. One message – that’s all I’ll get. If you had time to pass along one message about the Holocaust, what would it be? [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Never Again Means Not Now: Looking Inward Edition

Deborah Fripp — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:50:38 +0000

Anger. Sadness. Fear. Recognition. I would not presume to speak for the community of color. But these are some of the things I would be feeling if this were happening to the Jewish community. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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‘Never Again’ means ‘Not Now!’

Deborah Fripp — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:55:00 +0000

Have we built concentration camps on our border? As a Holocaust educator, I get asked this question a lot. It’s the wrong question. Asking whether they are concentration camps pushes us into extreme language that blocks conversation. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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