• Teaching the Holocaust in Germany

    Teaching about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust as a Jewish visitor to German schools. (Again out of order chronologically, but fresh, and heavy, on my mind…) This week I spent two days teaching at a gymnasium – “college prep” high school – in Heilbronn. I was speaking in their Religious Education classes, a History class

  • 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.