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Month: October 2018

  • The Command to Remember

    The Command to Remember Creating Collective Memory as a Moral Imperative By: Nance M. Adler Originally published in HaYidion March 2014 We have all heard the adage – “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.” I would like to add to it “Those who don’t remember their people’s history are doomed.” Much →

  • Full Immersion Learning – JCAT

    (Originally printed in RAVSAK journal HaYidion in Spring 2013 – No longer online on their site) Each fall, the seventh grade students in my Jewish Social Studies (JSS) class begin the year by participating in The Jewish Court of All Time (JCAT) online simulation. JCAT is an innovative learning adventure that is a joint venture →

  • Why I Teach the Shoah in Fifth Grade

    (This article appears to not be available online at the site of the journal it was published in, so I am posting it here) Why I Teach the Shoah in Fifth Grade By: Nance M. Adler Nadler@jds.org The controversial nature of teaching the Shoah (Holocaust) to Fifth Graders was not well known to me when →