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When ‘Just Joking’ Is No Joke: How to Respond When Students’ ‘Jokes’ are Biased or Offensive

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There are many benefits of humor. A good joke can ease tension in a stressful situation. Humor can connect people and bring them together. Jokes can bring levity to a situation that begs for lightheartedness. Being funny can signal to others who you are.  Humor can even open a conversation that previously felt closed or off-limits.  However, jokes and humor, when they target social identity groups, can do the opposite. They can make people feel unsafe, disconnected, excluded and…
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La ADL publica ‘Antisemitismo al descubierto’ la guía en español de los mitos antisemitas en una nueva era

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Nueva York, NY, 21 de marzo de 2023... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) presentó una nueva versión en español de su guía completa sobre el antisemitismo contemporáneo, poniéndola por primera vez en línea y a disposición del público latinoamericano y de habla hispana de todo el mundo. La guía en línea, "Antisemitismo al descubierto", identifica algunos de los tópicos más persistentes sobre los jud…
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La ADL se asocia con el Museo Judío de Chile para educar sobre antisemitismo a los estudiantes de secundaria chilenos

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Santiago de Chile, 21 de marzo de 2023 ... La Liga Antidifamación (ADL) y el Museo Judío de Chile anunciaron un proyecto conjunto para desarrollar un programa de educación digital para enseñar a los estudiantes de secundaria sobre el pueblo judío, el antisemitismo, y cómo ser un aliado contra el antisemitismo. El programa COAJ (Combatiendo el Odio y el Antisemitismo Juntos) busca equipar a los estudiantes con datos básicos sobre los jud&iacute…
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BBYO and ADL Forge New Partnership to Better Equip Jewish Teens with Skills to Respond to Antisemitism

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New York, NY, November 7, 2022 -- BBYO, the leading pluralistic Jewish teen movement reaching more than 70,000 young people in 60 countries, and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), a major provider of antisemitism education, have formed a partnership to equip Jewish teens with the tools to effectively respond to antisemitism and hate in communities, schools, and on social media. The collaboration between the two organizations will center around the delivery of new educational programming for…
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Moroccan Textbooks Teach Appreciation of Jewish Life and Tolerance in the Kingdom

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By Carole Nuriel and Aykan Erdemir An examination of textbooks used in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades of Moroccan state schools during the 2021-2022 school year indicate that tolerance and diversity are core to the curriculum promoted across Moroccan society. The excerpts on Judaism and Jews that Morocco’s Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training provided to ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) show that the country’s elementary school textbooks depict Jews as an…
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