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From the blog of Valeria Chazin at The Times of Israel

For those looking for a different way to educate children about the Holocaust, there is a new distance-learning option. The Israeli American Council, a conservative Israel advocacy group, in spring 2020 launched the Ofek Hub, “an online school with an Israeli twist,” according to the organization. The group is now offering a program on the Holocaust aimed at students in grades four to six, which “offers a unique look into the darkest of times in modern Jewish history through the lens of hope and dignity,” the organization states. “Using methods of interactive learning...

It started with a phone call. When Covid shut down schools and Sunday school programs last March, Sharona Israeli-Roth, the S.F.-based regional director of the Israeli American Council, didn’t think it would last long. But as a former career educator, she still wanted to fill any gaps in Jewish education that were cropping up as, one by one, synagogues and schools closed their doors. Sharona Israeli-Roth One phone call with the head of the IAC later, she had a new role: setting up Ofek Hub to provide low-cost, online Hebrew language and Israeli culture classes for all ages.

When the first wave of coronavirus infections reached the American South, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas,