• Seton Hall University
• Sister Rose Thering Fund for Education in Jewish-Christian Studies

For 15 years, the Sister Rose Thering Fund has offered a statewide writing competition for high school students in New Jersey who have viewed and discussed the award-winning documentary Sister Rose's Passion. Information about and copies of the film are distributed to public, private and religious schools in cooperation with the New Jersey Commission for Holocaust Education.

For 2025, the Sister Rose Thering Fund is pleased to enhance the competition by broadening its submission categories. In addition to essays, poetry and video submissions will now be accepted.

A committee of readers evaluates the hundreds of submitted entries to determine winners, first and second place for each grade 7-12. The winners, their teachers and families are invited to a reception on the Seton Hall campus and receive recognition for their work, certificates of accomplishment and gifts.

Submissions for the Fifteenth Annual Literary Arts and Video Competition are being accepted with an entry deadline of Friday, January 31, 2025. The 2025 Competition Announcement Letter and Guidelines can be found here (PDF) »

As a reminder, submissions can only be submitted by classroom teachers. Individual student submissions will not be considered for judging. Each submission needs to include the essay, poem or video, a completed Student Competition Application and a Student Release Form.

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