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1:30 - Registration 2:00 - Opennng Ceremonies 3:00 - Isreal Naussbaum in Memoriam 4:00 - Coming to America 7:30 - Memories of Kristallnacht: We Were There 7:30 - The Integration of Little Rock Central High School: A 50-Year Perspective
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4:30 - A FREE workshop for area educators Rabbi Shira Leibowitz, upper elementary principal of Solomon Schechter School of Westchester in Westchester, New York, will present an interactive workshop for area educators. The workshop has relevance for educators from upper elementary through high school. The workshop will explore the topic of what Holocaust Rescuers can teach students and teachers about making our schools and communities better places. Rabbi Leibowitz writes, “Holocaust education at its best is character education. And, among the many moral questions learning about the Holocaust raises, perhaps the most compelling is why individuals behaved as they did: perpetrators, bystanders, and yes, rescuers. Remarkably, little sociological data can distinguish between individuals recruited into police battalions and charged with doing despicable acts, bystanders struggling merely to get by, and heroic rescuers who risked their lives in order to do what they could to save Jews... The answers as to what distinguished, empowered, and propelled Holocaust rescuers may surprise and inspire us and our students. The sources of their compassion and moral courage may enable us to become a bit more like them, developing strength of character that we can utilize to better our schools and our communities.” RSVP by November 10 |