Portlanders learn about modern Israel

By Jewish Review

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Two Portlanders were among 70 teachers and school administrators who spent six information-packed days in Atlanta, Ga., to learn all they could about the story of modern Israel and how to pass that story on to their students.

Congregation Neveh Shalom Education Director Susan Bernstein and CNS fifth-grade teacher Adam Schecter attended the eighth annual “History, Culture, and Politics of Modern Israel” workshop, a professional development opportunity for pre-collegiate teachers run by the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel at Emory University.

American and Israeli university professors, along with educational specialists from ISMI’s staff, offered content and pedagogy sessions that helped teachers expand their knowledge of modern Israel, and gain new teaching tools and informational resources.

A new nonprofit organization called the Center for Israel Education and its new Web site (www.israeled.org) were unveiled at the workshop. The CIE produces curricula about modern Israel.