Amid a rise in incidents of antisemitism in the city and across the globe, New York City Councilmember Julie Menin, the Gray Foundation's Mindy and Jon Gray, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust have joined forces to launch a groundbreaking Holocaust Education School Tours program for all 8th-grade students in New York City public and charter schools starting this fall. This $2.5 million initiative will provide critical education about the global history of antisemitism and propaganda, factors that precipitated the Holocaust, while fostering opportunities for students to reflect on the relevance of historical events to contemporary issues.

A Holocaust museum in New York City will offer free educational field trips to eighth grade students in public schools in a program announced Thursday aimed at combating antisemitism. The program will allow up to 85,000 students at traditional public schools and charter schools to tour Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage over the next three years,

As part of a new initiative aimed at combating antisemitism, New York City eighth graders will learn more about the Holocaust through field trips to Manhattan's Museum of Jewish Heritage.

New York City will send tens of thousands of students to Manhattan's Holocaust museum as the city and its school system grapple with a surge in antisemitism since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

Following a rise in antisemitic incidents and hate speech in New York City schools, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan will host free tours for eighth graders in public schools as part of a new initiative to teach students about the Holocaust. The $2.5 million initiative will be available to both traditional public [�]

New York City will give schools the option to send eighth-graders on field trips to the Museum of Jewish Heritage as part of an effort to address antisemitism.