ADL successfully expands Holocaust education workshop

By Ryan Torok
Published on November 1, 2011

For nearly 30 years, Los Angeles secondary-school educators have attended the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Holocaust Education Workshop as part of their professional development. During the month-long series, L.A.-area teachers learned the history of anti-Semitism, listened to survivors’ firsthand stories and visited local Holocaust institutions, leaving them better equipped to teach the Holocaust to their students.

Class Notes

By Julie G Fax
Published on April 5, 2007

Education briefs.

Israeli entry ‘Mud’ wins at Sundance

Published on February 1, 2007

So many authors, so little time

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on September 14, 2006

We Were Slaves in Westwood

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on April 7, 2005

Southern Californians can travel from Pharaoh's palace to Midwestern wheat fields to a rain forest -- all without leaving Westwood.

Ex-Communist ‘Burb Makes Menorahs

By Carolyn Slutsky
Published on December 2, 2004

All the menorahs made at the factory have seven branches, a departure from the nine-armed versions most American Jews light to celebrate Chanukah.

Catholic Teachers Learn Shoah Lesson

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on September 2, 2004

Early in her teaching career, Marilyn Lubarsky introduced her ninth-grade history students to the Holocaust by showing "Nuit et Brouillard" ("Night and Fog"), a 1955 film containing vivid images of the horrors endured by Jews in concentration camps.

Students Spread Light in Ukraine

By Daniel MacIsaac
Published on November 28, 2002

Osik Akselrud got a little help from his friends in staging a recent workshop designed to teach students to teach others about the history and traditions of Chanukah.

Women Unite for Israel

By Gaby Wenig
Published on August 15, 2002

Yehudit Eichenblatt wanted to do her part for Israel, but she just wasn't sure exactly what that should be.

Festival Explores Identity

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 4, 2001

Actor-writer Doug Kaback never belonged to a synagogue while growing up in a non-Jewish area of Palos Verdes. He didn't receive any religious education or become a bar mitzvah.

Hands-on Democracy

By Tom Tugend
Published on August 10, 2000

Delegates to the Democratic Convention will participate in a hands-on workshop in democracy and diversity from the youth perspective, thanks to an innovative program launched by a Jewish institution.The youTHink program uses the arts to help young people grapple with social issues and then act on their new awareness to initiate projects that will promote civic responsibility and tolerance in their schools and communities.

Toppling the Chanukah Bush

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on December 3, 1998

Rabbi Eli Herscher is leading a discussion about the December holidays with about two dozen participants of Stephen S. Wise Temple's Holiday Workshop Series. The class attracts a good number of intermarried couples and those considering conversion, but they are not the only ones who squirm over the topic.

Mideast An Understanding Teacher

By Ruth Mason
Published on November 6, 1997

It's a hot summer day and 16 teen-agers are walking through YadVashem in Jerusalem with a handful of adults. The scene is acommonplace one until you look a little closer and listen morecarefully. Half of the group is speaking softly in Arabic amongthemselves and they come from villages with names like Julis and KfarYassif. The Arab and Druze teens in the group, as well as the Jewishones, are wearing long white T-shirts displaying the name of theGhetto Fighters' House and the word "guide" printed in large blockletters across the back.

Chabad’s Shofar Factory…

By Ruth Stroud
Published on September 25, 1997

Thousands of Los Angeles-area youngsters participate in hands-on workshops.

Chabad’s Shofar Factory…It’s a Blast

Published on August 28, 1997

Quick, what's a kosher animal with horns that can be used to makea shofar?

Uh, well, everyone knows the answer to that. A ram, right?

OK. Right. But name another kosher animal with horns good formaking a shofar.

Bzzzzzz! Your time is up.

But the several thousand Los Angeles-area day- and Hebrew-schoolchildren participating in Chabad's Traveling Shofar Factory know theanswer: The long, spiraling horns of the male kudu, a type of Africanantelope, are often used to make the shofarim employed in Sephardicsynagogues.