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Making Upstanders – Formative Lessons to Lifelong Habits – video
This video is of me presenting my research findings at the MTEI Seminar in October 2025. This research is written up in my post https://nancesea.com/2025/12/16/but-how-do-you-know/ – this is footage of me presenting the findings as part of my Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership work through MTEI and Hebrew Union College. →
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Don’t be Jonah
Darshan Jonah Yom Kippur 5784 Nance Morris Adler (I was honored to give the sermon on the Book of Jonah at my shul this Yom Kippur. This is my teaching. I dedicated it to my students who are always my teachers.) In 6th grade Jewmanities – that is what I call my classes at JDS →
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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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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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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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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 →
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Love, Justice and Religion
Love, Justice and Religion D’var on Shabbat Ha-azinu 5779 Nance Morris Adler This d’var is given with gratitude to all those who helped make a summer without a “formal” learning trip to Europe into my most interesting, educational, and wonderful trip yet – Simonas, Michał, and Alan in particular, with many others also having a →
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