An Emotional Shabbat in Berlin

Spending Shabbat in a foreign place has always intrigued me. While studying abroad in London and then backpacking for five weeks around Europe in the late ‘90s, I felt a strong pull to be in a synagogue on Friday night.

Learning Together and Sharing Traditions

Now in its second year, the Model Seder program fosters an understanding of commonalities among students who otherwise may never find themselves in the same room together. The Passover holiday — rooted in the themes of slavery and freedom — is a perfect place to strengthen bridges and…

I Have a Dream…

Why do we give children a day off from school on Martin Luther King Day? Instead we should be giving them a day to learn tolerance, to engage, and to become better citizens and more accepting young people. A day to hear about the past and present struggles of so many Americans, and a day to…

Centropa Summer Academy

Ilyse Shainbrown, Federation’s Gottesman Fellow, Jewish Cultural and Educational Liaison to Newark, is accompanying five Newark Public School teachers on a nine-day Holocaust education teacher training program and exploration of 20th century Jewish community through Budapest, Hungary and…

Newark Students Embark on a Journey to Holocaust Museum in D.C.

43 fifth and sixth graders from the South Street School in Newark had an unforgettable trip to the Holocaust Museum and other sites in Washington D.C. on a Rubell Remembrance Journey.