May 26
Jeanette Friedmanbook review, education, Holocaust, people
Anne Phyllis Pinzow
David Gold, co-author of “Why Should I Care?”
“Ethnic cleansing has been used throughout history as an excuse to preserve or create a cleaner, healthier, safer, stronger or purer way of life.
Good people must get rid of those who are not really people and using derogatory names is the first step in dehumanizing others. It’s the first step on a horrific road that makes extermination okay, because “they” are different, and the rules and rights attributed to “human beings” don’t need to apply to them.”
Jeanette Friedman and David Gold, in their new book “Why Should I Care?: Lessons From The Holocaust” (The Wordsmithy, LLC 2009) discuss how this type of thinking dehumanizes everyone and how this thought process can and often leads to the final step, because killing the “other” is not murder, it’s the right thing to do.
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Apr 09
Jeanette Friedmaneducation, local stories/community
by jeanette friedman
It’s a rite of passage for Yavneh Academy’s eighth-graders that is now in its 30th year: creating and performing an original Holocaust-themed play before hundreds of people.
More than 1,400 people attended two performances of “Hiding the Hellers” last week presented by Yavneh’s 80 graduating middle-school students. Based on the book “Clara’s Story,” by Holocaust survivor Clara Heller Isaacman as told to Joan Adess Grossman, the play told of the Heller family and their trials and tribulations as they faced almost certain death from betrayers and Nazis in Antwerp, Belgium. By the end of the play, the head of the family had been murdered by a trusted colleague in the diamond business and Heshie, the oldest son, had died in a forced labor camp very near the end of the war.
The play was preceded by a traditional Holocaust candlelighting ceremony with three generations of survivor families and a double recitation of the El Moleh Rachamim prayer — one for the Torah the school rescued from the Nazi warehouses in Prague and one for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
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Jan 03
Jeanette Friedmaneducation
education
Technology Transforms Classroom Experience One Click at a Time
Individual remote controls, such as those developed by I>Clicker, are revolutionizing classroom participation among all ages.
By Jeanette Friedman
Dec 15, 2010 6:15 AM
Down Under, in Melbourne, Australia, at the Yeshiva Beth Rivkah Colleges, there’s a learning revolution going on. Teachers at the K-12 school are using high tech response systems – very similar to the handheld devices developed for marketing focus groups and polling companies – to transform the at times tedious and regimental learning experience of yesteryear into a fun and interactive way to participate in class.
The results speak for themselves, says Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Moshe Loewenthal, director of Jewish Studies in the primary school there.
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Nov 30
Jeanette Friedmaneducation, holidays, Jews, judaism
By Jeanette Friedman, Chabad.edu
Nov 30, 2010 9:00 AM
Tufts University was founded in 1852 to be a shining light on the hill – Medford, Mass.’s Walnut Hill, to be exact – and nestled on its New England campus stands the eternal flame that burns 24/7 at the Chabad House Jewish Student Center, where Rabbi Tzvi and Chanie Backman offer a home away from home for the university’s Jewish members.
Wednesday night, hundreds of them will gather at the center of campus as the folks at Jewish Jumbo, as the Chabad-Lubavitch center is affectionately known, celebrate the Festival of Lights by lighting a giant Chanukah menorah with the assistance of University President Lawrence Bacow.
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Oct 02
Jeanette Friedmanbook review, commentary, domestic violence, education, feminism, philanthropy, social action
TUESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2010 15:43
BY JEANETTE FRIEDMAN
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
COMMENTARY
About a week before I covered the Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan, I read the galley proofs for Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff. Rushkoff has written lots of books about how our lives are affected by computers and marketing, corporations and the media, and he’s invented words we now use all the time. But instead of just re-writing the material from Wikipedia, you can read all about him here. His new book focuses on how computers and smartphones have changed our lives and what we have to do to make those tools work for us, so that we aren’t used by them.
But in a more subtle way, it is also about weapons of mass distraction — if we are all distracted by all the things we are doing on our computers and phones, we will be too busy to notice how America has fallen by the wayside. We may not realize until it’s too late that we have turned ourselves into a nation of ignoramuses — and it is just one of the issues Rushkoff talks about, issues that were significantly related to issues addressed last week at CGI.
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