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  • But How Do you Know?

    As part of  my course work in the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI)/Hebrew Union College Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership, I was asked to research my own practice as a teacher. I immediately knew my research topic! Does learning in my classroom empower young people to be Upstanders? If so, what experiences in my Jewish… →

  • Ich Judenwochen – A Lone Jew in the Kraichgau

    “Oh wait! Are you Jewish?”  This was said to me in a lecture that I sat in on at the Jewish Studies Institute in Heidelberg. The lecture was in German and I had been doing my best, aided by Google Translate, to follow along. It also helped that it was on the Crusades and Jewish →

  • Q&A in Germany – What the questions asked say about how the US is viewed abroad

    Many of my sessions in classrooms have been opportunities for students to ask me questions. Questions about the US, questions about Judaism, questions about my life, questions about the Holocaust, about history. Anyone who has been in my classroom, or had a child in my classroom, knows I love questions and discussions. Some questions were →

  • 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 →

  • Nance in Germany – Sinsheim visit 8 July

    This post is out of order chronologically but was written right after my visit. On Friday I went to Sinsheim, a town near to Eppingen to speak to students in a variety of classes. This was set up by Jutta, another Centropa teacher, who is the Catholic Religious Education director. A short train ride away →

  • Nance in Germany 2022 – Natzweiler KZ Lager

    While folks back in the US were deciding if or how to celebrate The Fourth of July in this year where our rights, freedom and liberty seem at high risk, even for those whose privilege generally has kept them insulated from previous or ongoing injustices and inequality, I joined the Year 9 students of the →

  • 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 →