Current Offerings

Bystander Intervention Training to Support the Immigrant Community

In honor of Renee Good, we are amplifying these trainings offered by our partners at Right To Be (righttobe.org). Register for one of two trainings on January 12 or January 16. 

"Through real-life scenarios, interactive exercises, and group discussions, participants will:

• Recognize the spectrum of anti-immigrant hate and harassment and its impact on communities.

• Learn and practice the 5Ds of bystander intervention in different situations.

• Understand how to legally and safely respond to ICE encounters without putting themselves or others at risk.

• Gain confidence to stand up against discrimination in their workplaces, schools, and public spaces.

• Leave with tools, resources, and next steps to continue supporting immigrant rights."

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Mobile Museum of Tolerance

January-February 20th 2026! An extension of the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in L.A., this "field trip on wheels" can travel to your school district with programs and curriculum designed for 5th-12th graders on Civil Rights, Anne Frank, the power of one individual, and digital media literacy. Sign up here to bring the MMOT to your students!

Peer Workshops

2nd-year Levine Center Youth Ambassadors bring research and important messaging to your youth program. Topics include: anti-bullying awareness, special education equity, authentic connection, boys' mental health awareness, and building self-reliance in young Latina girls.

Anti-Bias Trainings

Click here to sign up for one of four trainings led by the Center For Dispute Settlement, hosted by NYS Hate and Bias Prevention Unit. "This community training is designed to promote greater awareness of implicit bias with respect to 
race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, cognitive/physical ability, religious affinity, and other 
identities. The primary goal of this training is to empower participants to recognize their own biases, 
become aware of the impact of these biases, and take steps to reduce the harmful impact of biases."

Free and open to the public. 

January 22, 2026, 9:00am – 12:00pm: First Federal Building 19th Floor, 28 E. Main Street, Rochester 
January 27, 2026, 9:00am – 12:00pm: Bozzuto Center, 22 Castle Street, Geneva

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Teacher PD

We are thrilled to be able to offer a number of teacher workshops and PD on numerous Jewish-related topics, from Judaism 101 and Jewish pluralism to deep-dives in Holocaust scholarship and the Israel-Hamas war.  Email us for more information. 

Teacher PD to commemorate

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Join us on January 27th from 4-6 pm for this special and intimate discussion with internationally best-selling author Georgia Hunter, who wrote We Were The Lucky Ones-- a novel based on her family's survival of the Nazis and which began as a high school writing assignment. 

Teachers can choose from one of five follow-up workshops; registration required:

• Teaching With Narrative: Why We Love Stories 

• Guiding with Empathy: Librarian–Teacher Teams and the Power of Story 

• Utilizing Salvaged Pages by Alexandra Zapruder in the Classroom

• The Power of Place: A Teacher Visits Poland to Study the Holocaust "By Bullets"

• The Power of Finding Your Roots: How asking students to examine personal ancestry fosters identity development and well-being

Survivors in the Classroom

Current data suggests that Holocaust distortion and denial is at an all-time high. Bringing a local Survivor or "2-G" (second-generation) to deliver testimony has a profound and lasting effect on students. Email us for more information.

Film: "Ain't No Back to 

a Merry-Go-Round" 1/25

Five Howard students sat down on the gilded horses of whites-only carousel the summer of 1960. When the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students en masse and set up picket lines, an unprecedented collaboration was born. The pickets attracted Nazis, Congressman, and a press avalanche. Picketing together led to partying together and union organizers mentored student activists, ultimately producing ten 1961 Freedom Riders, including Stokely Carmichael, and a Supreme Court case. With never-before seen footage, and immersive storytelling by Emmy-award winning director Ilana Trachtman, four living protesters rescue this untold story, revealing the price, and the power, of heeding the impulse to activism. Tickets: $12 at the Little Theater.

Traveling Trunks &

Kindness Suitcases

Traveling Trunks (for grades 5-12) are on loan to educators (then returned to the Federation) and are loaded with artifacts replicated for hands-on student inquiry. Materials include authentic passports, documents, "yellow stars" and more, all based on local Survivors' experiences in Eastern Europe between 1938 and 1945.

Kindness Suitcases are created and developed by former elementary-school educators and feature 15 age-appropriate books and 30 learning activities about the Holocaust and people who helped others during the time. Contact us to learn more about how your school can acquire a Kindness Suitcase to keep!