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Nance in Germany 2022 – First weekend
In response to my frustration at finding myself finally able to travel but without a plan for travel and learning for this summer, my awesome friend Alan offered up that “perhaps I could come and be a visiting scholar at his school for a week…or two.” I immediately said “That would be wonderful.” So Alan… →
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Interview in Medraštis Nr. 16 – Lithuanian School Newsletter
Download the attached PDF to read the full interview of me done by Emilija Talandzevičiūtė a 10th year student at the school where my dear friend Simonas teaches. The article was published in English as Emilija felt that was necessary to be sure to correctly capture what I said during our hour plus Zoom interview… →
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A Pandemic Poem by a Teacher…
It felt good…and awful at the same time… It all began with having to tell 8th grade we weren’t going on our trip to Israel. Heartbreaking. Disappointing. 9 years of waiting, and now nothing. Then talk of having to go remote. Our small school managed the beginning really well. We were prepared – already planning… →
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Hotel Terezin – written 11 July 2016
This was originally written and posted on the Centropa website during the Centropa Summer Academy in 2016. I am attending a training with The Defiant Requiem Foundation and it was called to mind. I realized that I had not shared it outside of the Centropa blog for that trip. We are discussing the cognitive dissonance… →
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Using the Lessons of Our Gibborim (Heroes) During a Pandemic
Nance Morris Adler – 27 Nisan 5780 – Yom HaShoah u’HaGevurah – 21 April, 2020 Yom HaShoah u’HaGevurah is Israel’s – and by extension the Jewish people’s – day of remembrance and commemoration for those murdered in the Shoah. Most people use the shorthand “Yom HaShoah” and don’t include, or perhaps even know it exists, the… →
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Arguing for the Sake of Justice – William Cooper and Kristallnacht
“William Cooper stood to gain nothing from his actions. He had no connection to the Jews of Europe. But he knew what it was like to be persecuted based on one’s racial or ethnic identity and did not wish that on anyone else.” →
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Dancing with the Remnants – My Reflections on The Bielski Partisan Gathering
Dancing with the Remnants Marking the 75th Anniversary of Liberation from the Nazis with the Bielski Partisans Nance Morris Adler Shabbat Shuva 5780 Shomer Yisrael, Sh’mor Sh’erit Yisrael V’al yovad Yisrael, ha-omrim: Sh’ma Israel. Guardian of Israel, guard the remnant of Israel; and preserve the people of Israel, who proclaim: “Sh’ma Yisrael. … →
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Eulogy for My Sister
Eulogy for Colleen Ann Morris Cashell 30 November, 1965 – 21 March, 2019 Delivered 27 March, 2019 Clear Spring Maryland by Nance Morris Adler Colleen was taken from us all far too soon and suddenly and we are all still struggling to understand what happened last Thursday morning. While we are shocked and devastated… →
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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… →
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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… →
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