In the two months since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, American Jewish day schools have begun to rethink how they teach students about the brutal legacy of American racism.
Among the subjects they’ll have to examine? Their own history.
As the day school movement has expanded, it’s created a deep passion about the need for institutions that, in a secularized America, affirm and enrich Jewish identity. For day school communities, it’s impossible to imagine that the educational model that dominated the first half of the 20th century — in which Jewish students attended public schools and received supplemental Jewish education — might be a sufficient incubator of religious and cultural character.
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