Day 6 – Letters from the Children’s Village Teen Service Trip
Today we went to Massada and the Dead Sea. To get to these places we had to travel through the West Bank, one of the most confusing pieces of land in the world according to Barak our tour guide. It was cool to travel through and see how the green grass quickly became desert and […]
Day 5 – Letters from the Children’s Village Teen Service Trip
We started are day waking up at the crack of dawn to journey down to Jerusalem. We spent two hours on the bus with our amazing tour guide Barak. We started the tour by going to a landing at the top of Jerusalem looking over the western wall and the whole city. We took awesome […]
Day 4 – Letters from the Children’s Village Teen Service Trip
Hello all, Day four of our trip was an adventure in itself. We woke up at the crack of dawn to begin our journey to Sefad, an ancient town 30 minutes away from the village in Karmi’el. Here we were able to walk around the old town which was breathtaking. Before getting stuck in […]
Day 3 – Letters from the Children’s Village Teen Service Trip
Shalom parents! Sending you a message from Art Decoco, a delicious chocolate cafe, after a very eventful day in the North. First we went to a school in Misgav and met 10th and 12th graders during their english class. We witnessed first hand the differences and similarities between us and Israeli teens. For example, after […]
Day 1 – Letters from the Children’s Village Teen Service Trip
We had a fantastic trip yesterday and today from Pittsburgh to Tel Aviv. When we landed this morning to 70 degrees and sunny we hopped in our bus and headed north. Though tired from the journey our kids were taking in the sites as we drove to Karmiel. We arrived at the village with 2 […]
Poland Personally 2014 Photo Exhibit in Wheeling, WV
The photo exhibit Poland – A Journey Through Holocaust Sites to Insights was displayed at the Stifel Fine Arts Gallery in Wheeling, WV from November 3-6. The photographs displayed in this exhibit are a visual montage of the thousands taken by the 33 Wheeling participants who travelled to Poland this past summer with Classrooms Without Borders. These […]
“Ohi!” Yolanda Willis and the “Triumph of Morality” in the Jewish Chronicle
Read this article in The Jewish Chronicle. ‘The humanity of Greeks’ takes center stage on Ohi Day by Adam Reinherz, Chronicle Correspondent November 6 Members of the region’s Jewish and Greek communities silently gathered at Carnegie Mellon University’s McConomy Auditorium last week to remember the resounding cry of “No!” Exactly 74 years earlier, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini offered […]
Echoes and Reflections | Educators Workshop by Yad Vashem
On Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 a selection of Pittsburgh area educators attended the “Echoes and Reflections” workshop, fully subsidized by Classrooms Without Borders. Echoes and Reflections is a joint program of the Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem, which is designed to help educators convey the complex history of the Holocaust in a way […]
The White Rose: Week 4 – Shady Side Academy
This week, from October 27-31, the White Rose traveling exhibit will be on display at Shady Side Academy in the foyer of the Hillman Performing Arts Center. Drop by and leave us a message in our White Rose guest book!