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Pilot program seeks to help high school students embrace Jewish history much like Auschwitz trips have done
ed note–anyone who has tried to carry on a rational, productive conversation with someone from within the pro-Israel community knows what an impossible feat it can be. Is it any wonder when one considers how much part of the collective mental energy the whole business of the ‘Holocaust’ is? It is their essence, the center of their being, and if it ever appears that it is about to be supplanted with something more sane, then those who write the mental software within the Jewish community make sure that something ‘new and improved’ is introduced–such as this–in order to keep it where it has to be if the Jewish community is to remain in the mentally-paralyzed state that it is.
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The heroic three-week uprising mounted by Jews held captive at the Warsaw Ghetto is soon to become the subject of a high school quiz tournament meant to encourage teens to learn about the Holocaust.
Esther Farbstein, the director of the Holocaust Research Center at Jerusalem College and the program’s architect, hopes that the contest would help high school students embrace their Jewish heritage much like the trips to Poland’s concentration camps have done.
Some 400 10th graders from dozens of schools across the country are slated to take part in the multi-part tournament. Its final round is to be held in April 2013, on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Participants will have to become experts not only on the annals of the battle but also on detailspertaining to daily life at the ghetto, as well as notable figures and Jewish traditions observed during the Shoah.
If it manages to generate positive response, the pilot program is to be expanded to a larger number of schools the following year
