All Posts by Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Liberation Then, Liberation Now
January 22, 2025
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
Often, the end of the Holocaust is noted as January 27, 1945. The war was not over. Fighting was still raging throughout parts of Europe. And many, ma...
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Transforming Holocaust Education in Hillside
December 12, 2024
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
Last January, Federation brought together educators and legislators from secular spaces throughout GMW to travel with community members to bear witnes...
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Future Generations Will Be Able to Speak with Holocaust Survivors
November 6, 2024
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
I vaguely remember that one of my college application questions, asked – “If you could meet with anyone that is no longer living and have a conversati...
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Creating Joy After a Year of Tragedy
October 7, 2024
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
When I visited Israel this past summer, I went down south to see Kibbutz Nir Oz. On October 6, the kibbutz had about 400 residents. Of those, 117 were...
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L’Chaim – To Life
September 4, 2024
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
In Judaism, we toast "L'Chaim"—to life. Explore the enduring spirit of Jewish resilience, from Auschwitz to the March of the Living, and join us......
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A Community’s Defining Moment
February 29, 2024
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
Speaker after speaker addressed the importance of students learning through active dialogue and hearing from primary sources....
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An Enlightening Journey
January 25, 2024
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
This week we led a group of area educators, legislators, and community leaders on a 40-hour fact finding, primary-source-meeting mission to Israel....
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Stories that Seem Scarily Familiar
November 2, 2023
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
The demonstrations, hate speech, and vandalism that have followed October 7 around the world painfully evoke memories of Kristallnacht and the Nazis....
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Kristallnacht in 2023
October 31, 2023
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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‘Say Yes to the Dress’ – and helping others always
April 16, 2023
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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Telling Our Story of Survival – Again and Again and Again
February 24, 2023
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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The little sukkah that could
October 14, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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A Princess of War, A Queen for Decades
September 9, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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Despite the Events, ‘Never Forget’ Is Working
March 23, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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A Different Narrative for Today’s Young Jews
January 18, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs in the 1980s, antisemitism felt like history. It was important to learn about and discuss it – but it was not...
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A return of antisemitism for today’s young American Jewish generation
January 17, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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The Lessons of Starting Anew
January 5, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
It's time to stop comparing the time in which we live in now to aspects of the Holocaust and start living in a way that honors the survivors....
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The Lessons of Starting Anew
January 3, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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I’m a Holocaust Educator. Larry David Just Made My Job Harder
November 17, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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A Beautiful Tribute
October 26, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
GMW participates in a worldwide effort to remember the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust. ...
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Self Identity – Before and After a Worldwide Crisis
October 1, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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How I’m Connecting People to the Stories of Holocaust Survivors Right Here in New Jersey
July 16, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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Why I’m Teaching My Kids That Anti-Semitism Is Not the ‘New Normal’
July 15, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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A Solo Work Trip Reconnected Me With My Pre-Mom Self
July 13, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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Wait, What?! The Hitler Project
June 2, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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No More Lost Time
March 24, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
I recently heard a survivor say that they had lost their childhood to the Nazis and the last year of their lives to the pandemic. It was all we needed...
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Bob Max: An American Hero Who Dedicated His Life to Sharing His Story
August 26, 2020
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
The Holocaust survivors who volunteer their time to share their stories and lessons learned are true treasures of our Greater MetroWest community. The...
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The Stories Must Still Be Told: Survivor Speaks in Quarantine
May 6, 2020
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
Nine weeks ago, on March 5, I went to a local middle school with a Holocaust survivor. I provided an introduction to the Holocaust and then listened...
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From Slavery to Freedom: Passover in Quarantine
April 1, 2020
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
I know that it’s on everyone’s mind. I know that it’s being discussed in homes all across the United States, Israel, and around the world. It’s out...
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A Matter of Trust
March 18, 2020
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
For the past few days, I have been relating what the entire world is going through now to what that the world faced in the 1930s and 1940s. There...
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Seasons Greeting – from Auschwitz?
December 11, 2019
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
I spend a whole lot of time blogging, posting, and speaking about when things are either anti-Semitic or insulting to the memory of the Holocaust, or ...
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75 Years later and still we have an issue….
October 16, 2019
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
In July 2018 I spent my first Shabbat in Berlin. Although I had been to Germany several times before, I had not been fortunate enough to be in a...
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Heritage
August 7, 2019
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
I’ve spoken and written often about the so-called birthright of a child, grandchild, or even great-grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. In many cases, ...
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A Real-Life Lesson on Freedom
April 20, 2019
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
It is Sunday night, and as I crawl into bed, I am easily drawn to reflecting on what we did over the past few days. There were soccer and lacrosse...
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Remember the Brave Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto at Your Seder
April 10, 2019
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
It was the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943. Instead of sitting around a seder table, as many of us will do on the same date this year, a small make...
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Please, Stop and Think
March 26, 2019
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
From an early age, we tell our children: Choose your words carefully… Think before you speak… Don’t say something that could hurt someone else… and...
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Why Show Up?
February 19, 2019
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
Given that I work in Holocaust Education, I am often asked a great deal of “why” questions. Why did something as horrific as the Holocaust happen?...
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A Goodbye Letter to Our German Au Pair
December 30, 2015
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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Talking About Copenhagen as a Mom–and Genocide Expert
February 17, 2015
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Combatting Antisemitism Coordinator
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