Larry: It is generally believed the custom of reading a portion of the Torah each week, completing the reading of the entire Torah in one year, and repeating the cycle the following year began following the return from Babylonian captivity. While some critical of this practice say it originated in Babylon, this is not the case. Systematic reading of Torah is an outcome of the return.
ANDREW LAPIN/JTA, GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA: Cline's museum won't introduce the concept until seventh grade: "We find that any younger and they aren't able to intellectually engage with this material, which is an essential piece."
I was first introduced to the Holocaust, when I first viewed the 1959 film version of The Diary of Anne Frank during a Grade School assembly. I remember my teacher, Mrs. Diamond, looking worried, when I glanced back at her. As far as I know, Phoenix has not yet learned of the subject. He is in 6th grade.
Maria Angelita Delfin Aycardo: Because I accepted your invitation to be here today, I was attacked online and called antisemitic by money and power because they want money and power, while the other side was already attacking me because I had shared a stage with Hillary Clinton.
Alexander von Bismarck: most young people look not at the mainstream – they look at the social media
