ABSTRACT
Service-learning is among the fastest growing ideas in American education. Teaching offers a simple way out of this dilemma. Students who teach their subject in local schools can simultaneously serve and learn, performing useful and valued functions for many community members, while deepening their knowledge of a historical subject. Public school systems around the country are recognizing the value, and even the obligation, to teach about the Holocaust. The Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine, that has promoted Holocaust education in public schools for nearly 20 years as a means to address issues of toleration, prejudice, and diversity. The increasing difficulty of bringing religious issues into the schools means that discussions of the Holocaust may be one of the few acceptable ways of acquainting students with Judaism and Jews.
