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Local Catholic School Educator Participates in National ADL Bearing Witness™ Program

Keilla Mata, a local Catholic school educator from at St. Agnes Parish School in Los Angeles, traveled to Washington, DC from July 20-25 along with 40 other participants from 20 states around the country to learn about the history of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and recent changes in Catholic teachings on Jews and Judaism as part of ADL’s Eileen Ludwig Greenland

Holocaust Education Institute Reaches Educators from Throughout the Region

Approximately 75 educators from throughout Southern California learned tools for teaching about the Holocaust during ADL’s 2013-14 Los Angeles Holocaust Education Institute. The Institute launched the program in the fall with an all-day workshop, A Multimedia Framework to Teaching the Holocaust, in collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation and was attended by teachers from throughout the region. ADL trained participants to

2013-14 ADL Holocaust Education Institute Formally Concludes with Experiential Holocaust Education

Pictured:  Participants at the LA Museum of the Holocaust in front of the Tree of Testimony.   Public, private and parochial educators from throughout Southern California joined with Holocaust survivors and scholars for Session Two of the 2013-14 Holocaust Education Institute on February 21. Session Two, Experiential Holocaust Education, took place at the Museum of Tolerance and the Los Angeles Museum

Bearing Witness™: Catholic School Teachers Learn about Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

Pictured: Father Alexei and Rabbi Dorff provide a joint reading of a passage of the New Testament from Jewish and Catholic perspectives   Educators from Catholic schools from throughout Southern California participated in a day-long training on anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Jewish-Catholic relations on February 10. The program, ADL’s award-winning Bearing Witness™, was presented at Bishop Conaty – Our Lady of

ADL Mission Brings Southern California Catholic Educator to Israel on a Trip of a Lifetime

ADL Receives Thank You from Participant A group of Catholic school educators from 10 states across the country, including Sandra Columbus of Our Lady of the Assumption School in Claremont, CA, recently travelled to Israel on an Anti-Defamation League mission that aims to provide an advance course of study on anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Catholic-Jewish relations.  Columbus, the delegate from