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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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Lessons of the Holocaust: Lock the door or welcome the stranger?

Deborah Fripp — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:43:07 +0000

“Why do we need to teach the Holocaust?” This week, as we mark the first yahrzeit of the eleven people murdered at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, I want to explore this question from a different angle, an angle of hopeful action. [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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Why I teach the Holocaust in Churches

Deborah Fripp — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:25:07 +0000

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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