Resilience and Commemoration: A Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Golden
September 29, 2025 | 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm EDT
Virtual
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How can educators best support students who may be impacted by trauma? How can commemoration and conversation in a classroom community help students move through grief, anger and loss to a place of healing?
In preparation for the marking of October 7, the Facing History’s Jewish Education program will be joined by Dr. Jonathan Golden as we explore how commemoration can lead to cultivating a sense of agency, resilience, and hope in Jewish school communities. Dr. Golden will explore how the impact of memory of October 7th events and the emotions related to that memory change with distance in time from those events. We will also consider the implications for how we, as an American Jewish community, relate to a post October 7th world.
Dr. Jonathan Golden is the Founder of HeartStance Education Consulting. He teaches at Hebrew College in Boston and for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Previously, he served as the Israel Curriculum Coordinator and a history teacher at Gann Academy, a pluralistic Jewish high school in Waltham, MA where he taught from 1999 to 2023.
This program is geared towards educators in Jewish settings. Details for joining the Zoom meeting will be shared by email prior to the event. This event will not be recorded.
