Tree of Life

Educators’ Opportunity: Addressing Antisemitism in the Educational Spaces at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit

By Kate Lukaszewicz / Friday, September 19, 2025 / Comments Off on Educators’ Opportunity: Addressing Antisemitism in the Educational Spaces at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit

This workshop provides tools to understand and teach about contemporary antisemitism. Participants will examine its forms, functions, and consequences, as well as the historic roots of anti-Jewish hatred and how […]

The Cure for Hate Screening: REC 333

By Kate Lukaszewicz / Sunday, September 14, 2025 / Comments Off on The Cure for Hate Screening: REC 333

Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) presents The Cure for Hate, a film screening and Q&A with the documentary’s principal, Tony McAleer and director Peter Hutchison.  This program shares Tony’s redemptive journey […]

The Cure for Hate Screening: Schiappa Branch Library

By Kate Lukaszewicz / Wednesday, August 13, 2025 / Comments Off on The Cure for Hate Screening: Schiappa Branch Library

Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) presents The Cure for Hate, a film screening and Q&A with the documentary’s principal, Tony McAleer and director Peter Hutchinson.  This program shares Tony’s redemptive journey […]

The Cure for Hate Screening: Cooper Siegel Library

By Kate Lukaszewicz / Wednesday, August 13, 2025 / Comments Off on The Cure for Hate Screening: Cooper Siegel Library

Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) presents The Cure for Hate, a film screening and Q&A with the documentary’s principal, Tony McAleer and director Peter Hutchison.  This program shares Tony’s redemptive journey […]

Evaluating Media Coverage of the Holocaust and the Tree of Life Shooting

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on Evaluating Media Coverage of the Holocaust and the Tree of Life Shooting

This lesson is a mini-unit that begins when students have an introductory level knowledge of the Holocaust. Students working in pairs decide on an event from the Holocaust they would […]

Understanding and Ending Hate

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on Understanding and Ending Hate

One of the biggest misconceptions about antisemitism is that it is part of the past akin to ancient history. When talking about my seminar in Poland, some people stated that […]

Remembering ‘Tree of Life’… “Never again, means NEVER AGAIN!”

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on Remembering ‘Tree of Life’… “Never again, means NEVER AGAIN!”

Learners will learn about the Tree of Life shooting as an event and as a piece of a larger narrative of antisemitism, discrimination and racial issues within the United States. […]

Remembering the Tree of Life Tragedy Day

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on Remembering the Tree of Life Tragedy Day

DAY 1: ANTISEMITISM AND THE MEDIA The purpose of defining antisemitism is to determine what opinions students already hold. It’s important they can define the term so that they can […]

Understanding Now to Change the Future

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on Understanding Now to Change the Future

Students will begin this mini-unit by remembering/discovering the Tree of Life Shooting. The class will utilize a video, numerous primary source documents, discussions, and journaling in order to begin to […]

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

By Ateret Cope / Saturday, February 5, 2022 / Comments Off on A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

In this lesson students will explore the power of images. Beginning with the hook exercise students will begin to understand the role that confirmation bias, stereotyping, and other cognitive biases […]

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