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Based on research conducted within a Lubavitch girls' yeshivah in the United States, this article describes in detail how the Holocaust was taught and learned about in an eighth grade, secular studies classroom. The article describes the yeshivah, its site and students, and the teacher and the unit she taught. Special attention is given to the meaning the students made of their learning. The article concludes by arguing that the Shoah was rendered mysterious in this classroom, that the teaching of history was compromised, and that both the students' historical understandings and religious growth opportunities were shortchanged in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the social conditions of Jews in Iran at the turn of the century and the educational efforts of the Alliance Israelite Universelle (AIU) in Teheran. It also examines the potential sources of conflict and factors fostering close cooperation between the community and the AIU. The Iranian Jews strongly opposed the initiative of Alliance schools where most communities prepared to close the traditional schools to be transferred in new Alliance schools with the mullahs. The conflict started when majority of the Iranian Jews faced financial problems reflecting on the life of AIU representatives who were enjoying a high standard of living.

The article analyzes philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen's Judaic value judgments. The author offers information on the ways in which Cohen lived his philosophy of Judaism. They have also provided an overview of Cohen's most frequently reprinted essay "The Dark Side of Religion," which condemns religious fanaticism and recalls how often deeds of violence and cruelty are considered virtues when committed in the name of religion. Cohen also points out the intimate connection between religion and supernaturalism, and the passionate attachment to the old ways which every religion intensifies, cannot but strengthen superstition and hinder the progress of science towards the attainment of new truth as to human affairs.