Berlin
As I was preparing to leave for Germany, there were a few places I knew I wanted to visit and experience, one of them was The Jewish Museum Berlin. With it’s […]
This trip to Germany didn’t feel real to me until I arrived at the airport on Sunday evening. It didn’t feel real until I saw my friends, Sara and Emily, […]
Nineteen young Jewish leaders from across the U.S. recently embarked on a 10-day Germany Close Up (GCU) trip in cooperation with Classrooms Without Borders (CWB), in association with the Jewish […]
It seems like unearthing Jewish history in Berlin has a lot to do with learning to interpret negative space. The Shoah destroyed Jewish buildings, communities, and people. There are holes […]
Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) inaugurated its Berlin/Prague Seminar for educators, accompanied by local students, this June. Despite an airport strike in Paris that caused the group to lose a day, […]
When our seminar group arrived back in the United States two weeks ago, I grabbed my suitcase at baggage claim, hopped in my car and quickly returned home for a […]
We experienced what was like a “breathing” thesis. The program began with readings and the lectures; what we learned was illuminated by visiting the place and hearing an analysis of […]
“What would you do?” I looked forward to this trip as a teacher of history and government, anticipating a wealth of knowledge and personal stories of victims and survivors. I […]
I’m not Jewish, but I’ve always been very fascinated by the faith. Last year on the Classrooms Without Borders study seminar to Poland, I had my first Shabbat dinner. We […]
If Ohio also had Hansel and Gretel houses and little villages with some variety of church-with-steeple in its center, the bus ride from Berlin to Dresden looks like a bus […]