Times of Israel Archives - Teach the Shoah https://www.teachtheshoah.org/category/toi/ Teaching the Holocaust through Story Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:14:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-TTS-Stacked-Square-32x32.png Times of Israel Archives - Teach the Shoah https://www.teachtheshoah.org/category/toi/ 32 32 165884252 Navigating the role of bystander: What can we do? https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2025/12/09/navigating-the-role-of-bystander-what-can-we-do/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:14:37 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=250137 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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]]> 250137 Do the voices of the Nazis have a place in Holocaust education? https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2025/11/07/do-the-voices-of-the-nazis-have-a-place-in-holocaust-education/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:32:58 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=250096 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]

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]]> 250096 Small Miracles in the Darkest Times https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2025/09/28/small-miracles-in-the-darkest-times/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:57:30 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=249969 “Master of the Universe, after all we have seen in Auschwitz, and all we have seen in burnt-down and destroyed Warsaw, we turn to you in this last moment with one request: protect this last remnant of the people of Israel and this last remnant who are giving their souls for the sanctity of the Lord.... [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 249969 Preserving the Memories of Holocaust Survivors https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2025/09/18/preserving-the-memories-of-holocaust-survivors/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:31:59 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=249959 "I promise to keep your memory and tell your story.” One by one, eight storytellers stand in front of a Holocaust survivor in the library of Holocaust Museum LA in Los Angeles, CA and make this promise. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 249959 Tying the Threads of Compassion https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2024/02/20/tying-the-threads-of-compassion/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:23:43 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=239009 Through the alchemy of storytelling, the ashes of despair in the hallowed pages of survivor testimonies are transformed into flames of remembrance, illuminating the path towards a more compassionate and interconnected world. [redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 239009 Broken Glass, Preserved Memory https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2022/11/03/broken-glass-preserved-memory/ Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:22:00 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237720 Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. Please don’t let them find out I’m Jewish. It is November 10, 1938, and Margot Gunther (Jeremias) is riding the train to school. It’s an hour ride from her home in Hoffenheim, Germany to Heidelberg where her school is. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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]]> 237720 When it’s an attack on your own community https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2022/01/17/when-its-an-attack-on-your-own-community/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:30:00 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237723 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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]]> 237723 How to Teach Race Relations: Lessons from Holocaust Education https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2021/11/18/how-to-teach-race-relations-lessons-from-holocaust-education/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 03:34:08 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237726 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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]]> 237726 How to deal with antisemitism in our schools https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2021/10/25/how-to-deal-with-antisemitism-in-our-schools/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 03:36:05 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237729 “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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]]> 237729 Changing Times, Changing Celebrations https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2021/10/13/changing-times-changing-celebrations/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 03:37:23 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237732 Sometimes it takes the wrong holiday to get us to the right one. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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