Teaching with "Defiance" Workshop

From: Jonathan Furst - JPEF Outreach [mailto:jonathan@jewishpartisans.org]

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The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) in
cooperation with Paramount Home Entertainment presents:
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* TEACHING with DEFIANCE *
Jewish Resistance and the Bielski Partisans

== A Hands-On Training on Teaching with the Film ==
BART Accessible ~ Includes vegetarian meal

Tuesday, October 27, 5:00pm-8:30pm
Alameda County Office of Education
313 W. Winton Ave #142, Hayward, CA

== Participants Receive ==
~ Defiance DVD with Excerpts ~
The feature film, director's comments, 5 primary source interview with Bielski partisans, and special made-for-classroom DVD with 16 excerpts from key scenes to use in the classroom

~ Defiance / Bielski Partisans Curriculum ~
New teacher's guide to DVD and excerpts, plus additional JPEF educational materials created with Bielski biographer Peter Duffy and Defiance screenwriter Clayton Frohman

~ Nine Jewish Partisans Documentaries ~
Including two new short films with primary source interviews and archival footage, produced by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

== SPACE IS LIMITED ==
$12 Class Fee. To register, go to:
www.jewishpartisans.org/defiance-EB

See flyer attached below for more details.

More information at: defianceba@jewishpartisans.org or call 415.563.2244 x102
Downloadable flier: www.jewishpartisans.org/defianceba-flier
Transit and Parking: SF - www.acoe.org/acoe/Home/AboutACOE/Directions
(~10 min from Hayward BART/AmTrak via AC Transit)

This workshop made possible by: Elliott and Suzanne Felson; The Hellman Family Foundation; Jewish Community Endowment Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund

Partner Organizations: Alameda County Office of Education; Holocaust Center of Northern California; Anti-Defamation League; Bureau of Jewish Education; CA Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance; The Curriculum Initiative; Facing History and Ourselves

www.jewishpartisans.org

"There has never before been a film-based Holocaust curriculum that implemented such innovative means and pedagogy to teach not only History, but Ethics, Leadership and Jewish values... I hope this will become a staple for educators across the country."
-- Michael Berenbaum

Morris Weiss Scholarship

From: Karen Weinstein [mailto:Karen_Weinstein@facing.org]

The Morris Weiss Scholarship

For 11th and 12th grade Bay Area students.

The deadline for entries is February 26, 2009.

This year’s essay topic asks students to discuss Acts of Kindness during the Holocaust. Submitted essays must reflect a genuine engagement with the topic and constitute a thoughtful response. The entry will be judged on both the quality of writing & research, and the ability of the author to meaningfully connect the essay topic to the lessons of the Holocaust.

The student with the winning essay will receive a $1500 scholarship to be used towards their post-secondary education.

For more details and scholarship rules, please go to www.hcnc.org/scholarship.html

Morris Weiss was a founder of the Holocaust Center of Northern California. A Holocaust survivor who testified at Nazi war crimes trials, Morris Weiss was dedicated to fighting Nazism. In his memory, his family established a scholarship open to 11th and 12th grade Bay Area students each spring.

The Scholarship is generously underwritten by members of the Morris Weiss family.

Karen Weinstein
Facing History and Ourselves
24301 Southland Drive, Suite 318
Hayward, CA 94545
Ph: 510-786-2500 ext. 221
Fax: 510-786-2522
Staff E-mail: firstname_lastname@facing.org
Website: http://www.facinghistory.org

Manovill Holocaust History Fellowship

From: HCNC Events [mailto:events@hcnc.org]

Manovill Holocaust History Fellowship

HCNC is proud to announce this exciting new program for Bay Area teens!

MHHF is a unique opportunity for 11th and 12th grade students to study the Holocaust at a college level. Five fellows will be selected to draw connections to other genocides and gain the tools to be advocates for building tolerance in the Bay Area. Upon successful completion of the fellowship, students will be awarded 60 hours of community service and a $500 stipend.

As a MHHF Fellow you will:

• Connect with local Holocaust survivors


• Work in the HCNC archives


• Become an activist for education and tolerance

Are your weeks already full with sports, school work and other activities? The fellowship allows participants to choose when they want to work in the archives, conduct research and work on the thesis project.

Accepting applications now through Nov 17, 2008.
Participation in the Manovill Holocaust History Fellowship is free of charge. For more information and to download an application visit www.hcnc.org


Contact Morgan Blum at
mblum@hcnc.org
415-777-9060 x203
Download a flyer
Look for details on Facebook

The Manovill Holocaust History Fellowship is generously underwritten by the Lilly Manovill Tauber Endrei Education Fund.

Journey to Poland and Israel with Shalhevet

“We are the last generation that has the opportunity to learn and see through the Holocaust survivors’ eyes”

Shalhevet ("flame" in Hebrew) is a transformative journey to Poland and Israel for Bay Area High School Juniors and Seniors. Inspired by March of the Living, Shalhevet is a way for local Jewish teens to participate in a program specifically tailored to the educational and cultural environment of the Bay Area.

• Learn about the thriving Jewish culture in Poland before WWII and today.


• Witness the concentration camps through the eyes of a survivor traveling with the group.


• Meet with Polish and Israeli teens to get a taste of their lives.


• Experience Israel: the people, the culture and the homeland.
  


• Experience Israel: the people, the culture and the homeland.


• Examine today’s political and geopolitical challenges in Israel.
  

Regional seminars run from January to May and the group will travel March 16-March 30, 2009. For more information on the program, information sessions near you, and to complete the online application, visit: http://www.bjesf.org/teensnav_shalhevet.htm. To see photos look for Shalhevet on Facebook

Financial aid is available
Contact ylipschitz@bjesf.org
415.751.6983 x106 for details.


Contact Morgan Blum at
mblum@hcnc.org
415-777-9060 x203
Or Yaron Lipschitz at
ylipschitz@bjesf.org
415.751.6983 x106


Shalhevet is a dynamic collaboration between the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Holocaust Center of Northern California

Bring the Testimony of Local Holocaust Survivors Into Your Classroom!

From: HCNC Events [mailto:events@hcnc.org]

Fighting Back!
Rescue and Resistance during the Holocaust
A Workshop for Educators

Date: Tuesday, November 18th
Time: 5:00pm-8:00pm
At the Holocaust Center of Northern California
121 Steuart Street, San Francisco

Engage your students with compelling video testimonies from local Holocaust survivors and rescuers. Morgan Blum will introduce HCNC’s new multi-media curriculum spotlighting those who resisted the Nazis in Western Europe and saved the lives of countless Jewish victims.

Workshop attendees will receive classroom lesson plans and a DVD containing the video and audio testimony of Bay Area survivors and rescuers. Workshop, curriculum, and video testimonies are complimentary. A light vegetarian dinner will be served.

Please register by Tuesday, November 11th. To download a registration flyer click here.

For questions contact
Morgan Blum, HCNC Director of Education
mblum@hcnc.org
415-777-9060 x203
For more information visit www.hcnc.org/events
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This program was made possible, in part, by a grant from the Holocaust Memorial/ Education Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.

Holocaust Center Fall 2008 Events Calendar

History-SS News from CISC -- September 2008

From: Gary Dei Rossi [mailto:gdeirossi@sjcoe.net]

Attached are a few items relating to history-social science in our state. Please share this information with other county offices and school districts. Also please continue to encourage schools to take part in the MYVOTE California Student Mock Election. (www.sos.ca.gov/elections.studentmockelection.htm).


This email contains information on the next California Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, NCSS Conference, The California Association of School Economics Teacher Annual Conference, and information on the Holocaust workshops and trainings.

Thanks

Gary F. Dei Rossi, Co-Chair

CISC History-social science Committee

California Council for the Social Studies 48th Annual CCSS Conference, March 6-8, 2009, Ontario Convention Center. You are invited to attend The 48th Annual CCSS Conference, "Historical Literacy in a Changing World." The conference will take place March 6-8, 2009 at the Ontario Convention Center. For more information please visit their website at: www.ccss.org.


National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference November 14-16, 2008, Houston, TX $199 Members; $295 Non-Members

From November 14 to 16, social studies educators from around the country will gather for the 88th NCSS Annual Conference. More than 500 sessions, workshops, clinics, and poster presentations will provide multiple ideas and avenues for social studies professionals to help our students develop the 21st century skills they need to thrive as citizens in our participatory democracy. The conference will include panel discussions on English Language Learners and the Social Studies, empowering elementary educators as Social Studies advocates, academic freedom, democratic education research, and the connections between Science and Social Studies. Visit the new NCSS website at: www.socialstudies.org/conference for more information and to register!

The California Association of School Economics Teachers (CASET), 13th Annual, Economics in Education Conference 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008, 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM, Cuyamaca College, 900 Rancho San Diego Parkway, San Diego, CA 92019

Substitute scholarships/travel stipends (up to $125 value) are available to the first 100 teachers to register with their conference fee of $75 -Lunch -One unit of Continuing Education Credit Available - $65/unit -Every teacher that attends will receive a demonstration and copy of Virtual Economics ($100 value). Guest Speaker: Yoram Bauman, Ph.D. Scholarships to attend the conference are available. For further information, please contact Bernard Mauricia at 800-845-9799 or email bmauricia@csusb.edu. You may also fax registration forms in at 909-537-7251(see attachment).

Holocaust Education: for a number of years Samuel M. Edelman, Ph.D. & Professor Carol Edelman have provided workshops and teacher training programs on the Holocaust, genocide and human rights as the State of California Center of Excellence for the Teaching of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance. They have trained over 4,000 teachers and are now scheduling workshops in many areas throughout the state (Elk Grove, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County to mention a few). Please contact their graduate student Meagen Yudell to get more information or to schedule a workshop. She can be reached at: 530-898-6148.

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Holocaust Center Student Volunteer Program

The Next Chapter

The Next Chapter is a volunteer program for 11th and 12th grade students who want to learn more about the Holocaust. Teen volunteers are matched with Holocaust survivors who they will interview and record their oral histories. Also, the teens will work with research partners at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland to try to determine what happened to each survivor’s family, community, and town after the war.

Students will meet once a week at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco to learn about the history of the Holocaust, conduct research, and complete the oral history essays. The program will run from November through May.

Students will receive community service credit for their participation.

For an application and more information please contact:
Taylor Epstein
Jewish Family and Children’s Services
TaylorE@jfcs.org
415-359-2463

To download a flyer click here

The Next Chapter Project is a partnership of JFCS and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, in cooperation with Congregation Emanu-El and the Holocaust Center of Northern California.

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October 30
Film Screening:
Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story
Q&A with Louis de Groot

November 20
Melanie Saxer Johnston,
author of What My Father Saw

December 11
Film Screening:
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