At Illinois Holocaust Museum, teens learn the Shoah’s Jewish history — and how to apply its lessons to today

This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York City to report on issues that affect their lives. On a freezing December day in Chicago, an elderly woman sat in a chair in a small downtown auditorium, speaking in measured […]

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Sarah Hurwitz, former Obama aide, stirs social media firestorm with remarks about Holocaust education 

In the safe confines of a gathering of Jewish fundraising and communal professionals, Sarah Hurwitz’s remarks about antisemitism and Holocaust education earned polite applause. By the time they made it to social media, they’d become kindling in a rhetorical firestorm over the Gaza war — and the uses and abuses of Jewish memory.    Hurwitz — […]

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