A Different Narrative for Today’s Young Jews
January 18, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Newark Initiatives
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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The Lessons of Starting Anew
January 5, 2022
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Newark Initiatives
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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A Beautiful Tribute
October 26, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Newark Initiatives
GMW participates in a worldwide effort to remember the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust. ...
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No More Lost Time
March 24, 2021
Ilyse Muser Shainbrown
Director of Holocaust Education and Newark Initiatives
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 Newark Initiatives
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 Newark Initiatives
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 Newark Initiatives
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 Newark Initiatives
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 Newark Initiatives
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 Newark Initiatives
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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