This Friday, Jewish Currents is pleased to co-host a virtual conversation, exclusively for Jewish Currents and The Beinart Notebook members, between editor-at-large Peter Beinart and Rachel Griffin Accurso. Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, has earned international fame for her popular educational children’s videos. A recent profile in The Washington Post called her “the Mister Rogers of this era.” She has also, in the past year, become increasingly vocal about the war on Gaza—a move which has garnered no small amount of blowback from her fans on the right. Beinart will interview Accurso about her decision to enter the political conversation—the reasons she felt called to denounce the war, and her experience on the public stage since.
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Rachel Accurso is a passionate educator who creates research-based videos to help toddlers and their families learn, bond, and thrive. Her videos infuse songs, games and nursery rhymes with strategies from experts to help children reach important milestones in the crucial early years of learning.
Rachel has two master’s
degrees in education: one in early childhood development and
one in music education. She is an advocate for children’s rights and
works to ensure that all children have access to high quality early
childhood education. She is an ambassador for Save the Children and Room
to Grow.
John Collazos
Peter Beinart is editor-at-large of Jewish Currents. He is the author, most recently, of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. He teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is an MSNBC political commentator, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.
The Beinart Notebook is a weekly newsletter written by Peter Beinart.
