Pivoting off the recent PEW studies that indicate that the Holocaust is a major touch stone for Jewish Identity, especially for those who might be disenfranchised from other types of Jewish Communal experience. The seminar for Community Rabbis is a 9-day, intensive learning program focused on providing strategies for community Rabbis who seek to incorporate programming that includes Shoah history, imagery, and Jewish values content into their congregant’s synagogue experience. The information presented in the seminar is historically and pedagogically based using interdisciplinary approaches to engage the Rabbis to think creatively when preparing sermons, classes, presentation and communal memorial programs. Using the unique Yad Vashem pedagogical approach, modeled lessons, programs and workshops and collegial interaction, participants will be empowered to create and share experiences that use the Shoah to enhance empathy, understanding , and communal commitment.
Among the topics studied, under the guidance of world-famous professors and teachers, are; The History of Antisemitism, The Jewish Life Between the two World Wars, The German Jewish Community’s Response to the Rise of Nazism 1933-38, What is Unique About Nazi Antisemitism? Life in The Ghettos, Rabbinical Leadership During the War, Dilemmas and Choices, The Final Solution, The Camps, Jewish Resistance to the Nazis, The Sermons of the Piaseczno Rebbe, Rabbinical Responsa Literature from the Holocaust, Return to Life, and Post Holocaust Theological Responses, Current Antisemitism.
We will discuss topics that Rabbis will find useful when developing a Shoah curriculum including; Inter-Disciplinary Holocaust Studies, Using Popular Film as an Educational Tool, and Goals Oriented Shoah Studies.
Topics in Pedagogy include; Safely In Safely Out, Is There a Place for Simulation in Shoah Studies, The Use of Dilemmas in Shoah Studies, and Creating Empathy as Goal Shoah Studies, Relating the Holocaust to Current Jewish Communal Challenges.
The Rabbis will encounter modeled classes such as A Street in Warsaw, Rabbinical Leadership in the Holocaust, Spiritual Resistance, Shoah as a Tool When Learning Jewish Text, Women in the Shoah, The Auschwitz Album, A Day in the Life of the Ghetto. These and other education Units for the classroom will be available for purchase.
This program is highly subsidized and space is very limited. With the exception of a $200 registration fee, Yad Vashem will cover all tuition costs associated with the seminar; including Hotel accommodations, (double occupancy / Half board), for the duration of the program, food, transportation from the hotel to the seminar and back, and all extracurricular activities.
Plane Fare and Travelers insurance are NOT covered in the Yad Vashem subsidy.
To apply please go to the following link:
https://forms.yadvashem.org/event-registration-intl?id=1237
For more information please contact Rabbi Moshe Cohn at moshe.cohn@yadvashem.org.il