Education
On its daily blog, the museum will post an activity geared to a variety of ages that guide children in exploring Jewish heritage, family history and human connection, among other topics.
Jewish mom creates book outlining coronavirus to kids
Author Meredith Polsky, co-founder of the Jewish organization Matan, said, “I was worried about their level of anxiety, and I wanted to create something that would be age-appropriate and wouldn’t induce fear.”
From online classrooms to mindfulness exercises and more, those who run classrooms and courses want and need support with new platforms.
For parents already facing the strain of self-isolation, keeping healthy and working from home, finding the right balance of studies and free time for their children is becoming a daily challenge.
A student running for class representative “promises to be the new Fuhrer of the grade on this journey towards building a new and innovative Reich,” said a now deleted Instagram post.
“A curriculum based on a narrowly focused and politicized approach consciously and erroneously divides Californians into ‘people of color,’ on the one hand, and all other supposedly ethnic and non-ethnic whites, on the other,” wrote the groups.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate whether the Center for Middle East Studies at the college has misused federal dollars.
Questions of who should get taught, what students know and how they are learning have come to the forefront as the rise in anti-Semitism continues in North America and Europe.
The Board of Deputies of British Jewry called the question “dangerous.”
About 20,000 German Jews who fled Nazi Germany during the late 1930s and early 1940s came to Washington Heights.
“In our world, Jewish women have a right and a duty to be part of the multigenerational conversation of the Jewish people, and to belong to study and Torah,” stated Professor Vered Noam.
In addition to photos, artifacts, paintings and history, the museum will address issues of race and anti-Semitism, and the ways Southern Jews navigated such challenges in different times.
