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Are the kids alright? How the parenting styles of Holocaust survivors transmitted trauma to the next generation and beyond.
Rilke’s translated response to an age-old discourse: “What is to be done with the Jews?”
“I’ll never forget seeing the kids light up as they are given the chance to work with me. I’ll never forget hearing them repeat new words under their breaths in order to memorize them. And I’ll never forget having to say ‘hello’ to twenty kids between the time I walked into school, and the moment I reached my classroom.”
Wrestling with a multi-faith identity.
The 120-year Workers Circle has a fresh branch: a student hub for advocacy, ideas and culture.
A new type of Jewish education is going beyond the halls of Hebrew School and straight to the hearts of young diaspora Jews.
“I cannot ignore these two incidents. I can’t think of them as tragic coincidences.”
“Antiracist action requires more than protests; it requires community education, eliminating poverty & inequality, and abolishing those institutions which perpetuate racism and cannot be reformed.”
Daniel Crasnow on his visit to the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Haifa.
Two New Voices Fellows discuss their year working with Jewish Currents, weaving memory about the Jewish Left through the eyes of the magazine’s lineage of writers and editors.