Churches Archives - Teach the Shoah https://www.teachtheshoah.org/tag/churches/ Teaching the Holocaust through Story Wed, 17 May 2023 03:46:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-TTS-Stacked-Square-32x32.png Churches Archives - Teach the Shoah https://www.teachtheshoah.org/tag/churches/ 32 32 165884252 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 Why I teach the Holocaust in Churches https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2018/11/14/why-i-teach-the-holocaust-in-churches/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:25:07 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=238446 Holocaust education needs to be different in a church than in a synagogue. Although we like to think of Christians and Jews as similar, there are fundamental differences in our background knowledge of and emotional connection to the basic elements of the story of the Holocaust. These fundamental differences change how the story is heard, and therefore, how the story should be told. [Redirects to the Times of Israel.]

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