How NYC Is Trying To Fight Anti-Semitism Through Education

After a spike in anti-Semitic attacks last year, New York City officials promised to use education to fight hate crimes, especially in neighborhoods with large ultra-Orthodox Jewish populations. In January, the education department launched a partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. The museum is offering free tickets to its exhibit on Auschwitz to all public students over 12 and three of relatives. Public schools in Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park are also sending all 8th and 10th graders on field trips to the exhibit. Already 5,500 students from 48 schools have visited. Students and their parents said they're glad to have an opportunity to learn more about their Hasidic neighbors but they hope the program will evolve into more of a cultural exchange rather than a one-way conversation.