Deadline: 5 January 2011
WHAT WILL YOU DO TO STOP HATRED AND DISCRIMINATION?
After disease, humanity's deadliest scourge has always been hate... hate has killed hundreds of millions. It knows no season and no limit. It is irrational and it is deadly. It is in us all. And it will live forever - unless we choose to stop it.
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage challenges students in grades 6-12 to take personal responsibility to combat hatred, discrimination and intolerance by participating in the 2010-11 Stop the Hate: Youth Speak Out! essay contest.
The Museum strives to open lines of communication between people of all races and religious backgrounds by focusing on the commonalities, rather than differences, of all who make up the American story. The Museum has taken great care to reflect upon the results of intolerance, not just against Jews, but against the weak, powerless, segregated and different in America and throughout the world.
The Stop the Hate! Youth Speak Out! essay contest is a yearly initiative that supports our mission to build bridges of appreciation, tolerance and understanding of persons of all religions, races, cultures and ethnic backgrounds. It reflects Jewish values of responsible citizenship and respect for all humanity by challenging young people to consider the consequences of intolerance and hatred and the role of personal responsibility in affecting change.
What would you do to fight discrimination? How will you combat hatred and intolerance to become an agent of change? How will you become part of the solution?
HIGH SCHOOL ENTRIES (Grades 9-12):
1. Describe an act of discrimination - have you or someone you know been subjected to discrimination or have you seen or heard of acts of hatred and intolerance that disturbed you?
2. Reflect upon your response - why were you disturbed and what did you feel and/or do about what you experienced, saw or heard?
3. Commit to a plan of action - Stop the Hate! Youth Speak Out! What have you done already and/or what will you commit to doing in the future to stop hatred and intolerance and affect change in you, your school and/or community? How will you implement your plan of action?
Discrimination is defined as any act of prejudice or intolerance perpetrated upon one individual by another; a group against an individual; or one group against another group. For example, essays may respond to acts of discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical/mental challenges, economic status and/or less specific criteria such as bullying, name-calling, malicious gossiping, or ostracizing someone for unspecified reasons
Who is Eligible
The contest is open to all students in grades 6-12 in the Ohio counties of Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit
Students may attend a public, private, religious, charter school, home-school or on-line classroom
One entry per student; no group projects
Students who have entered in previous years, including past student winners (with the exception of scholarship winners), may enter again, but cannot re-submit any essay previously submitted
Immediate family members of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Malrite Company and The Maltz Family Foundation staff and Board of Directors are ineligible to enter.
Entries must be received electronically, by mail or hand-delivered by 12 Noon on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 for students in grades 11-12.
To enter electronically:
Electronic entry is preferred. Click the Enter Here button to the right to prepare your official entry form and upload your finished essay
To enter by mail/delivery:
Electronic entry is preferred. If students have limited access to the Internet, entries may be hand-delivered or mailed. See complete contest rules at right for mail-in entry form. Send entry and completed entry form to: Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage - Stop the Hate, 2929 Richmond Road.
More information here.
WHAT WILL YOU DO TO STOP HATRED AND DISCRIMINATION?
After disease, humanity's deadliest scourge has always been hate... hate has killed hundreds of millions. It knows no season and no limit. It is irrational and it is deadly. It is in us all. And it will live forever - unless we choose to stop it.
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage challenges students in grades 6-12 to take personal responsibility to combat hatred, discrimination and intolerance by participating in the 2010-11 Stop the Hate: Youth Speak Out! essay contest.
The Museum strives to open lines of communication between people of all races and religious backgrounds by focusing on the commonalities, rather than differences, of all who make up the American story. The Museum has taken great care to reflect upon the results of intolerance, not just against Jews, but against the weak, powerless, segregated and different in America and throughout the world.
The Stop the Hate! Youth Speak Out! essay contest is a yearly initiative that supports our mission to build bridges of appreciation, tolerance and understanding of persons of all religions, races, cultures and ethnic backgrounds. It reflects Jewish values of responsible citizenship and respect for all humanity by challenging young people to consider the consequences of intolerance and hatred and the role of personal responsibility in affecting change.
What would you do to fight discrimination? How will you combat hatred and intolerance to become an agent of change? How will you become part of the solution?
HIGH SCHOOL ENTRIES (Grades 9-12):
1. Describe an act of discrimination - have you or someone you know been subjected to discrimination or have you seen or heard of acts of hatred and intolerance that disturbed you?
2. Reflect upon your response - why were you disturbed and what did you feel and/or do about what you experienced, saw or heard?
3. Commit to a plan of action - Stop the Hate! Youth Speak Out! What have you done already and/or what will you commit to doing in the future to stop hatred and intolerance and affect change in you, your school and/or community? How will you implement your plan of action?
Discrimination is defined as any act of prejudice or intolerance perpetrated upon one individual by another; a group against an individual; or one group against another group. For example, essays may respond to acts of discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical/mental challenges, economic status and/or less specific criteria such as bullying, name-calling, malicious gossiping, or ostracizing someone for unspecified reasons
Who is Eligible
The contest is open to all students in grades 6-12 in the Ohio counties of Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit
Students may attend a public, private, religious, charter school, home-school or on-line classroom
One entry per student; no group projects
Students who have entered in previous years, including past student winners (with the exception of scholarship winners), may enter again, but cannot re-submit any essay previously submitted
Immediate family members of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Malrite Company and The Maltz Family Foundation staff and Board of Directors are ineligible to enter.
Entries must be received electronically, by mail or hand-delivered by 12 Noon on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 for students in grades 11-12.
To enter electronically:
Electronic entry is preferred. Click the Enter Here button to the right to prepare your official entry form and upload your finished essay
To enter by mail/delivery:
Electronic entry is preferred. If students have limited access to the Internet, entries may be hand-delivered or mailed. See complete contest rules at right for mail-in entry form. Send entry and completed entry form to: Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage - Stop the Hate, 2929 Richmond Road.
More information here.
