Cape May Teachers Selected for Advanced Seminar for Holocaust Educators in NJ

CAPE MAY – The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) has selected 22 middle and high school teachers and Holocaust center staff from Alabama, Florida, New Jersey, Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Delaware to participate in its 2018 Advanced Seminar, an intensive three–day academic program that will explore a number of topics addressing the history of the Holocaust. The seminar will take place Jan. 13-15 at the Hilton Newark Airport hotel in Elizabeth, N.J.
Over the weekend culminating with Martin Luther King Jr. day, Cape May Technical High School teachers Barry Kopf and Gina Tack will be attending the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous’ Advanced Seminar for Holocaust Educators. Both teachers were chosen from among applicants nationwide to attend the program.
The Advanced Seminar is an intensive graduate-level program in which a select group of educators who are already well versed in Holocaust history are given the opportunity to study more focused topics relating to the Holocaust. Through lectures from renowned Holocaust scholars including Christopher R. Browning of University of North Carolina, Peter Hayes of Northwestern University, Volker Berghahn of Columbia University, Atina Grossmann of Cooper Union, and Alfred Lerner Fellow Amy McDonald, author of Determined to Survive.
The program is open to Alfred Lerner Fellows, educators who have already attended the JFR Summer Institute for Teachers.
“These educators have shown a tremendous commitment to teaching the Holocaust in their schools. By attending this intensive, graduate level program, they will gain an even greater understanding of the history of the Holocaust, which will increase their effectiveness in the classroom and enable them to mentor other educators who teach the subject,” said JFR Executive Vice President Stanlee Stahl.
The Advanced Seminar is made possible by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
As it moves forward, the JFR continues its work of providing monthly financial assistance to some 350 aged and needy Righteous Gentiles, living in 20 countries. Since its founding, the JFR has provided more than $38 million to aged and needy rescuers—helping to repay a debt of gratitude on behalf of the Jewish people to these noble men and women. Its Holocaust teacher education program has become a standard for teaching the history of the Holocaust and educating teachers and students about the significance of the Righteous as moral and ethical exemplars. For more information, visit https://jfr.org/