I am currently reading a book of testimonies about the Jews who were saved by a whole village – Le Chambon-sur-Lignon – during WW2. Theses testimonies were written by some of the Jews who were saved by the villagers; there are also a few portraits of the people who saved them.
A few years ago [...]
After working on Europe with one of my Business English classes, We are now dealing with intercultural management. The first step is to get the students to understand how different cultures have different ways of looking at the world.
Even if France and Sweden are both European countries, visiting classes there made me aware of [...]
Of course, Rabbi Lau wasn’t physically present in my classroom this morning but the words he spoke in the video we watched seem to have made quite an impact on my students.
Thanks to Jew Wishes, who provided the link in a blog post, I read a wonderful and poignant article about Rabbi Lau and the [...]
Being in Stockholm I wished to take some photos of the Raoul Wallenberg Square as well as the Wallenberg monument. I also photographed the memorial that was added a few years ago, even if it is controversial as some people find its lying stuatues meaningless.
The monument is a stone globe on the ground, with the [...]
Numerous Jews took part in the various movements of the French Resistance during WW2. However some chose to join the M.J.S. (Mouvement de Jeunesse Sioniste) to bring specific help to the Jews that needed it.
Paul Giniewski who was an active member of the M.J.S. during the war has just written a book about this organization [...]
This morning I finished reading A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 2: Love Your Neighbor as Yourself by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, which I had started two weeks ago. It took me some time to read this book, not because it is hard or boring – quite the opposite in fact – but because it is [...]
As I was having trouble sleeping last night, I listened to a podcast I had downloaded on my mp3 player. It dealt with a new book in French, Dictionnaire de la Shoah.
This dictionary was published last April and supervised by four historians: Georges Bensoussan a French authority on the subject, Jean-Marc Dreyfus who lectures in [...]
As some of you know, I teach English in a French high school so this time of year is always devoted to marking exam papers. After three years of high school, French students take the baccalauréat, an exam which marks the end of their secondary education and allows them to go to university if they [...]
Today is the first day of the baccalauréat, the academic qualification which French students sit at the end of the lycée (secondary or high school).
Here is a selection of the questions on which the students were expected to write an essay this morning. Each student has a choice between three topics : two in the [...]
I’ve been off-sick for four weeks now and I miss neither my job nor my students.
Although it may be a bit to soon for proper analysis, I have a few ideas in mind.
- 3 ot of my 6 classes were very difficult groups with no wish to learn whatsoever. I felt helpless then and I [...]
