Reflections | Israel STEM Study Seminar – Discovering the Start-Up Nation
Reflections by Avi Ben-Hur, CWB Director of Education This July, we embarked to Israel on our first STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) educator’s study seminar. The goal of this study seminar is to introduce STEM educators at public, private and charter schools in the Pittsburgh area to Israel’s booming landscape of start-ups and innovation. […]
Reflections | Greece Study Seminar – From Antiquity to a Modern Crisis
On September 27, 4:30-6pm, please join us for an event at St. Nicholas Catholic Cathedral celebrating the CWB Travel Seminar to Greece. For more information, click here. Reflections by Avi Ben-Hur, CWB Director of Education This June, our educators, students and professionals embarked upon a travel seminar to Greece, a country currently in the throes […]
Reflections | Germany Close Up – Young Jews Meet Modern Germany
Reflections by Martin Michaels, Emily Richman, Jeremy Adams, Rachel Cohen, Millie Rosen & Jessica Katz. This summer, twenty-six American Jews – teachers, lawyers and writers, women and men from different parts of the U.S. – were brought together by a common history and desire to learn about the Holocaust: they embarked on a travel seminar to […]
News From CWB Wheeling
During the summer, educators and students from the Wheeling area completed the interview and application process for the Poland 2016 study seminar. The 10 educators chosen are from public, private and Catholic high schools and middle schools. The 14 high school students are from public, private and Catholic schools in the Greater Wheeling Area. Arrangements […]
McCandless resident, teacher gets lesson in Greek culture
When Carrie Zuberbuhler Kennedy’s husband attended a lunch meeting to discuss pro bono work for the nonprofit organization Classrooms Without Borders she didn’t expect him to come home and announce that she was going on a 12-day study seminar in Greece with the organization. Classrooms Without Borders, or CWB, a program of the Jewish Federation […]
Back to school: What local STEM students can learn from Israel
In a matter of days, Pittsburgh-area schools will open their doors to welcome students and teachers to the start of another school year. But a group of educators will head back to school armed with a professional experience abroad that has opened their minds: a seminar trip to Israel to study science, technology, engineering and math, […]
Israel 2015 = Amazing
No place like home however, Israel 2015 from the participants to the sites to the Israeli teachers was amazing. I’m still absorbing and reflecting as I plan to sit down over the next week and share my experiences with my three daughters. I’m sure many more ideas will spring from teaching them what I learned […]
Last night in Israel – Headed Home
Tonight is our last night in Israel, time to pack and get ready to get to the airport in the morning. But my mind is still buzzing with all the many things that we have done and I have learned on this trip. It really seems so long ago that we first got to this […]
A Hands-on, Experiential Lesson on Blindness
Last night we were treated to a dinner at Nalaga’at (translated as Please Touch), which is a combination restaurant, coffee house and theater. The plays in the theater are performed by actors that are deaf and blind. The servers in the restaurant are visually impaired or blind. I was looking forward to this “dinner in […]