Welcome! We are pleased to have you join us on the Memorial Library site. If you are a participant in this summer’s seminar, please take some time now to introduce yourself. Past participants, feel free to add […]

On February 14, 2013,The Memorial Library Summer Seminar was showcased on the National Writing Project’s Blog Talk Radio Show. Sondra Perl and Jennifer Lemberg were joined by by summer seminar participants Tai […]

We are pleased to announce that Jane Connealy, HEN ’07, is joining the HEN staff as the Coordinator of our Summer Satellite Program. Having worked for the past three years as a satellite leader in Lincoln, NB, […]

SALISBURY, MD—Dr. Diana Wagner of Salisbury University’s Education Specialties Department is used to assigning homework to her students.

But like all good teachers, she also has some of her own.

Upon […]

We are delighted to announce that we will be initiating another two-stage process in support of a second group of satellite seminars. The first step for anyone interested in this program is to apply to the

At the end of the fall 2011 semester, my undergraduate content literacy classes were asked to choose service learning projects in response to their interaction with the Holocaust text set we studied this semester. […]

In her essay, “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity,” Adrienne Rich recalls sitting alone in a theater watching films of the allied liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Rich writes, “I had to try […]

Dear family and friends,

This is the first entry in our ten-day journey to Poland and Israel. Each day two HEN teachers will give highlights of what’s happening. This first post is being written by Sondra Perl, […]

We began our day with a local specialty of current juice and a bountiful breakfast.  A late start was due to a mix up with our luggage and an easily resolved conflict with hotel security surrounding the Israeli […]

Today was a whirlwind of Jewish culture before and during World War II, and then a haunting feeling of a beautiful people who had gone extinct from Poland. We started off with a tour of Alta Schul, a five hundred […]

Yad Vashem: Hand to Heart

for Assia

We remember

a young girl

fleeing her Polish town,

her home

as Germans came

and neighbors panicked, cried, prayed

before the ravine.

We […]

because life is a wilderness and they were savage

because life is an awakening and they were alert

because life is a flowering and they blossomed

because life is a struggle and they struggled

because […]

DAY ONE IN ISRAEL

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they carried us away captive required […]

From every corner of the Romanesque Catholic church in the Arab village of Abu Gosh we hear the harmony and contradictions of Israel. It is not the song we often hear in the news, which tells us that this is a […]

“Entering a place one way and exiting it another.”  We have come to realize that everywhere we go on this trip we find ourselves entering places we have never seen  before, but may have preconceived notions and […]

The Sublime

Masada – “They’re ridin’ camels like they’re their cars!”

As we journeyed from Jerusalem to the Judean Desert, we were intrigued by sudden terrain changes, majestic mountains, Bedouin villages, […]

We are all trying to put the last two weeks into some kind of perspective—not only how we can take our experiences into the classroom and our satellite, but how our experiences in Poland and Israel with continue […]