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April 01, 2012 from 9:30 AM

How do we answer the questions that our children ask us about the Holocaust?
How can we help them begin to understand the incomprehensible when we do not understand it ourselves?

And how do we avoid the true horrors while allowing our children to ask these difficult questions?
Join Ilona Schecter as she presents a framework for conversation about the Holocaust with children, sharing suitable literature and documentaries for various age groups, and providing tools, context and materials for teaching our children, and answering their questions.

Bring your own questions too!

Ilona Shecter has worked at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School for the past 21 years, where she currently teaches Jewish Studies, Israel, and the Holocaust to Middle School students.
Born into a large Orthodox family in Cape Town, Ilona left South Africa to study at the Youth Leadership Institute in Israel.

Ilona is a recipient of the Grinspoon Steinhardt award for Excellence in Jewish Education, is a Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and has attended three seminars at Yad Vashem as well as a seminar on teaching Modern Israel. She has travelled to Israel frequently on a variety of study courses.

Exploring the World of Judaism is a program of Congregation Shir Hadash and the Bureau of Jewish Education and is supported in part by the Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust.

Contact: Nadine Toby, nadine@shirhadash.org, 408-358-1751 x5
Organization: Congregation Shir Hadash
Website Link: http://www.shirhadash.org/calendar/e/02171
Location: 20 Cherry Blossom Lane, Los Gatos

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