Times of Israel Archives - Teach the Shoah https://www.teachtheshoah.org/tag/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/tag/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 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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]]> 237732 Stand at the Water Gate with Me https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2021/10/01/stand-at-the-water-gate-with-me/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 03:38:37 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237734 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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]]> 237734 Holocaust Education for Our Modern Conversation https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2020/08/27/holocaust-education-for-our-modern-conversation/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 03:47:49 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237739 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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]]> 237739 Never Again Means Not Now: Looking Inward Edition https://www.teachtheshoah.org/2020/06/05/never-again-means-not-now-looking-inward-edition/ Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:50:38 +0000 https://www.teachtheshoah.org/?p=237740 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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