{"id":2109332,"date":"2025-10-22T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2109332"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:04:23","slug":"steven-van-zandt-and-gene-simmons-push-for-jewish-history-education-to-combat-hate-never-seen-antisemitism-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/steven-van-zandt-and-gene-simmons-push-for-jewish-history-education-to-combat-hate-never-seen-antisemitism-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Van Zandt and Gene Simmons Push for Jewish History Education to Combat Hate: \u201cNever Seen Antisemitism Like This\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Longtime E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt<\/a> and Kiss<\/a> frontman Gene Simmons<\/a> found themselves recently talking Jewish heritage to a group of 120 people at angel investor Richard Clareman\u2019s house in Brentwood. The event was part of a moderated conversation for TeachRock, Van Zandt\u2019s education nonprofit, aimed at raising funds for Jewish history education in public schools.<\/p>\n

Moderated by film financier and producer Gary Gilbert<\/a>, the event marked the first installment of TeachRock\u2019s \u201cAmplifying Jewish Heritage\u201d series that aims to develop curriculum resources to highlight the role Jewish musicians have played in key moments throughout U.S. history.<\/p>\n

In an interview prior to the event, Van Zandt and Simmons<\/a> were quick to speak of the fierce urgency of the current moment \u2014 as cases of antisemitism have surged in the U.S. in the wake of Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023 attack in Israel.<\/p>\n

TeachRock \u201ctries to cover the waterfront\u201d when it comes to education,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longtime E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons found themselves recently talking Jewish heritage to a group of 120 people at angel investor Richard Clareman\u2019s house in Brentwood. The event was part of a moderated conversation for TeachRock, Van Zandt\u2019s education nonprofit, aimed at raising funds for Jewish history education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2109333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2109332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Steven-Van-Zandt-and-Gene-Simmons-Push-for-Jewish-History.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109334,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109332\/revisions\/2109334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}