Rabbi Kaplan to Address Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

The International School for Holocaust Studies, a division of Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, is hosting a conference on Holocaust education in Jerusalem on June 18th through June 20th.

The objective of the conference is to present educational ideas and opportunities for expanding knowledge of the core issues of Holocaust history, literature, art, music, medicine, law, theology, and philosophy and to make them applicable in the lives of students. The Conference will feature more than 30 presentations and many outstanding interdisciplinary, educational workshops on 20 different topics in the various areas of Holocaust research and scholarship by Yad Vashem and Israeli scholars.

During the three day conference participants will be able to investigate the various disciplines of Holocaust study and engage in meaningful discussions on the applicability of the Holocaust to today’s issues in both the classroom and greater community.

The Conference will be attended by nearly 500. They include Directors and Educational Directors of Holocaust museums and centers and Jewish museums worldwide, Jewish educators in both formal and informal Jewish Education and educators teaching a Holocaust curriculum on the college/university level and in public/private and parochial high schools.

On Thursday, June 21st the conference will feature a panel of international Jewish education experts: Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future of Yeshiva University; Rabbi Nochum Kaplan, director of the Education Office of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch; Dr. Marc N. Kramer, Executive Director of RAVSAK; Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief rabbi of Efrat and dean of Ohr Torah educational institutions; and Dr. Leonard Saxe, Director of Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Director of Brandeis University.

The afternoon-long session will deal with the challenging issues facing Holocaust educators.