Last month, Touro University, in association with the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), launched a first-of-its-kind teaching fellowship designed to help university professors build and teach rigorous undergraduate and graduate courses on antisemitism within their existing academic disciplines. The resulting courses will deepen students’ understanding of antisemitism, civil rights protections, and the modern challenges facing Jewish students and Israel today.

Recap: The girls run away from the farm, and they meet two children running away from the Inquisition. They tell the children they will take them with them to see the Rav. Along the way, they stop in the home of Mrs. Hanan, who supposedly wanted to help Jewish children, but once inside, Miri notices a cross on the mantel.

We look forward to summer with the excitement of a slower pace, sunshine, and longer days. We blink, and before we know it, the lazy days of summer come to an end. We reflect, look back on those carefree days, and begin looking ahead to fall.

Speaking to Holocaust survivors is unlike addressing any other audience. These are people who did not learn Jewish history from books. They lived it. They witnessed a world most of us can only try to comprehend, then rebuilt their lives and helped rebuild the Jewish people.