BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Classrooms Without Borders - ECPv6.11.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Classrooms Without Borders X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Classrooms Without Borders REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260218T193000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20260114T154931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T220210Z UID:10001161-1771443000-1771443000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Final Final Solution DESCRIPTION:Darkly funny. Unapologetically sharp. Uncomfortably timely. \nThe Final Final Solution is a fearless\, hour-long stand-up cabaret that takes on October 7\, 2023 and its aftermath with biting wit and raw humanity. Fresh from a smash run at Estonia’s Freedom Festival and now on a U.S. tour\, this performance transforms unimaginable pain into something incisive\, shocking\, and deeply human. \nThis is theater that doesn’t look away—and doesn’t ask you to\, either. \nTickets: $18 \nStudent Tickets: $5 \nDoors open at 7:00 PM. Show starts at 7:30 PM. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-final-final-solution/ LOCATION:Beth Shalom\, 5915 Beacon Street\, Pittsburgh\, 15217 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Final-final-solution-flyer-7-1.pdf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T160000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20250902T161940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251004T123233Z UID:10001144-1760862600-1760889600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Bus Tour of the Jewish Monongahela Valley DESCRIPTION:Join Eric Lidji\, Director of the Rauh Jewish Archives\, and Classrooms Without Borders for this bus tour of the Monongahela Valley. \nWe’ll visit: \nCharleroi \n\nRodef Shalom Congregation / Second Chance Community Church\nFirst National Bank of Charleroi\nElks Lodge\n\nBrownsville \n\nOhave Israel / Elmo’s\nLunch on your own\n\nDonora \n\nOhav Shalom Congregation / Campfire Boys and Girls\n\n \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/bustour/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/bus-tour.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251013T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251013T143000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20250919T131202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250919T143519Z UID:10001146-1760344200-1760365800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Educators' Opportunity: Addressing Antisemitism in the Educational Spaces at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit DESCRIPTION:This workshop provides tools to understand and teach about contemporary antisemitism. Participants will examine its forms\, functions\, and consequences\, as well as the historic roots of anti-Jewish hatred and how it manifests today\, particularly in the U.S. To provide context\, the session includes a brief overview of Jewish beliefs\, customs\, and diverse expressions of Jewishness\, along with the Jewish connection to Israel. Interactive activities-such as analyzing media and planning responses to antisemitic incidents-support social problem-solving skills and align with the PA Career Readiness Skills. This workshop also fulfills the requirements of Act 70 of 2014. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/educators-opportunity-addressing-antisemitism-in-the-educational-spaces-at-the-allegheny-intermediate-unit/ LOCATION:Allegheny Intermediate Unit\, 475 E Waterfront Drive\, Homestead\, Pennsylvania\, 15120 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Antisemitism-Then-and-Now-Historical-Echoes-and-Contemporary-Lessons-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T150000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20250919T135839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250919T140109Z UID:10001147-1759482000-1759503600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Educators' Opportunity: Antisemitism Then and Now: Historical Echoes and Contemporary Lessons at the Intermediate Unit 1 DESCRIPTION:In connection with the October 27th Tree of Life Shooting commemoration\, this session will explore manifestations of antisemitism across history and geography. Educators will gain tools for helping students understand both historical and modern-day antisemitism with empathy\, accuracy\, and context. $15 dollars for 6 Act 48 hours. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/educators-opportunity-antisemitism-then-and-now-historical-echoes-and-contemporary-lessons-at-the-intermediate-unit-1/ LOCATION:Intermediate Unit 1 1 Intermediate Unit Drive Coal Center\, PA 15423\, 1 Intermediate Unit Drive Coal Center\, PA 15423\, Coal Center\, PA\, 15243\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Antisemitism-Then-and-Now-Historical-Echoes-and-Contemporary-Lessons-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T190000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20250914T173153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250914T173700Z UID:10001145-1758128400-1758135600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Cure for Hate Screening: REC 333 DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) presents The Cure for Hate\, a film screening and Q&A with the documentary’s principal\, Tony McAleer and director Peter Hutchison.  This program shares Tony’s redemptive journey from a white supremacist to a repentant advocate for compassion who visits Auschwitz to confront history and his own Holocaust denialism. \nThe program is free\, but advanced registration is required. Register by emailing parkwayjc@verizon.net. \nThis is an in-person event. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/cfh-rec333/ LOCATION:REC 333 (333 Penn Center Drive\, Pgh 15235)\, 333 Penn Center Drive\, Monroeville\, Pennsylvania\, 15235 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Penn-Center-flyer-2.pdf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250914T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250914T160000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20250813T105654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T223649Z UID:10001143-1757858400-1757865600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Cure for Hate Screening: Schiappa Branch Library DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) presents The Cure for Hate\, a film screening and Q&A with the documentary’s principal\, Tony McAleer and director Peter Hutchinson.  This program shares Tony’s redemptive journey from a white supremacist to a repentant advocate for compassion who visits Auschwitz to confront history and his own Holocaust denialism. \n  \nThe program is free\, but advanced registration is required. \nThis is an in-person event. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-cure-for-hate-screening-schiappa-branch-library/ LOCATION:Schiappa Branch Library\, 4141 Mall Drive\, Steubenville\, Ohio\, 43952 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CWB-CFH-Steubenville-Social-Media_v2-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T190000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20250813T104317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T223639Z UID:10001142-1757782800-1757790000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Cure for Hate Screening: Cooper Siegel Library DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) presents The Cure for Hate\, a film screening and Q&A with the documentary’s principal\, Tony McAleer and director Peter Hutchison.  This program shares Tony’s redemptive journey from a white supremacist to a repentant advocate for compassion who visits Auschwitz to confront history and his own Holocaust denialism. \n  \nThe program is free\, but advanced registration is required. \nThis is an in-person event. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-cure-for-hate-screening-cooper-siegel-library/ LOCATION:Cooper Siegel Library\, 403 Fox Chapel Rd\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15238 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CFH-Cooper-Siegel.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T210000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20250811T204107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T223627Z UID:10001140-1757617200-1757624400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Cure for Hate Screening--Rodef Shalom DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) presents The Cure for Hate\, a film screening and Q&A with the documentary’s principal\, Tony McAleer and director Peter Hutchinson.  This program shares Tony’s redemptive journey from a white supremacist to a repentant advocate for compassion who visits Auschwitz to confront history and his own Holocaust denialism. \n  \nThe program is free\, but advanced registration is required. \nThis is an in-person event. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-cure-for-hate-screening/ LOCATION:Rodef Shalom Congregation/ Levy Hall\, 4905 Fifth Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CFH-Rodef.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T143000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20240328T151407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T155538Z UID:10000976-1713704400-1713709800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Using Alternative Forms of Assessment: The Kindertransports as a Case Study DESCRIPTION:Traditional assessments often fall short in capturing the depth and breadth of students’ understanding and skills. Participants in this online workshop will be exposed to alternative assessment models that can measure a student’s mastery of content knowledge and skills while using 21st-century technologies.  \nAligned with the Danielson Framework’s Critical Attributes for assessments\, the workshop will emphasize the importance of aligning assessments with instructional outcomes. The workshop will feature examples of alternative assessments by using the World War II Kindertransports\, offering educators a model for integrating children’s narratives during wartime into their courses. This fall\, Classrooms Without Borders will host a photo exhibit about the Kindertransports.  \nThis workshop will be facilitated by Kate Lukaszewicz\, Classrooms Without Borders Education Programs Director. Required pre-reading will be shared with registrants and Pennsylvania educators with a PPID can be awarded 2 Act 48 hours.  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/using-alternative-forms-of-assessment-the-kindertransports-as-a-case-study/ LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Email-Promo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T153000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230517T105855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231117T213913Z UID:10000736-1700143200-1700148600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:Join CWB for our Final Event in our 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThe 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nNovember’s Event will feature:\nMemory Studies: Museums and Memorials with Mirjam Zadoff \n \nMirjam Zadoff is Director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism\, and lecturer at the University of Munich. Previously she held the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair for Jewish Studies and History at Indiana University Bloomington. She was visiting faculty at ETH Zurich\, UC Berkeley\, HU Berlin and Augsburg University. She is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the University Council at the Academy of Fine Arts\, Munich. She has co-curated\, among others\, the following exhibitions: Materializing: Contemporary Polish Art and the Shoa; “More important than life”: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto; TO BE SEEN. Queer Lives 1900-1950; Tell me about yesterday tomorrow. \nAmong her recent publications are: Gewalt und Gedächtnis. Globale Erinnerung im 21. Jahrhundert (forthcoming); Four Years After. Ethnonationalism\, Antisemitism\, and Racism in Trump’s America (2020\, edited together with Noam Zadoff and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum); Tell me about yesterday tomorrow (2020\, edited together with Nicolaus Schafhausen); Werner Scholem. A German Life (2018). \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners:\n \n \n \n \n \nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 German Professionals and the Holocaust\nSept 21 Jewish studies \nOctober 26 Gendering the Holocaust URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-9/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T153000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230511T161411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T210658Z UID:10000735-1698328800-1698334200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nOctober’s Event will feature:\nGendering the Holocaust with Andrea Pető\nAn introduction to the rich history of researching the Holocaust. Research on women and the Holocaust developed driven by the political strategy formulated by Joan Ringelheim in 1983 that in failing to recognize that men and women suffer differently we “lose the lives of women for a second time”. A strong professional alliance was built between the second wave of the women’s movement and those who wanted to rewrite or revise women’s history. I analyze the consequences that the scholarship on women and the Holocaust followed the same epistemological route as women’s history writing in general. It started to collect the facts – making women visible and collecting evidence – and establish the history of women’s participation in\, for example\, the ghetto and among the Jewish resistance movements building up a considerable scholarship by now. The talk closes by analyzing the causes and actors of the recent illiberal challenge on Holocaust Studies and its consequences on gendering the Holocaust. \nAndrea Pető \n \nAndrea Pető is Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University\, Vienna\, Austria\, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works on gender\, politics\, Holocaust and war have been translated into 23 languages. She edited three pioneering books in the field of Jewish Studies with Louise Hecht\, Karoline Krasuska Women and Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges. IBL\, Warsawa\, 2015.\, and with Szapor\, Judith\, Hametz\, Maura\, Calloni\, Marina\, Jewish Intellectual Women in Central Europe 1860-2000. The Edwin Mellen Press\, 2012.\, with Helga Thorson The Future of Holocaust Memorialisation. Confronting Racism\, Anti-Semitism\, and Homophobia Through Memory Work. Tom Lantos Institute\, Budapest\, 2015. Her recent monographs are: Women in the Arrow Cross Party (Palgrave\, 2020)\, Forgotten Massacre\, Budapest in 1944 (DeGruyter 2021). She the editor-in-chief of East European Holocaust Studies (DeGruyter). In 2018 she was awarded the 2018 All European Academies (ALLEA) Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values and 2022 University of Oslo Human Rights Award. She is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University\, Stockholm\, Sweden. \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners:\n \n \n \n \n \nFinal Events in this Series:  \n\nNovember 16 2023 Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 German Professionals and the Holocaust \nSept 21 Jewish studies URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-8/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T171500 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230804T125710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T184039Z UID:10000887-1698162300-1698167700@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:CHRISTIANS & JEWS – FROM CONFLICT TO COEXISTENCE DESCRIPTION:Today\, the nexus between Judaism and Christianity marks a high point in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. \nBut this was not always the case. Since the C2nd CE\, mainstream Christianity was resolutely anti-Jewish.\nThe myth of Jews as Christ-killers fuelled anti-Judaism and antisemitism through the Christian centuries and it was not until after the Holocaust that the Church embarked on a path towards reconciliation with the Jewish people.\nIn this short course we will trace the trajectory of Jewish-Christian relations from a position of conflict to one of coexistence. \nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/christians-jews-from-conflict-to-coexistence-2023-10-24/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Berenbaum-Museum-Panel-web-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T153000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20231009T184108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T170923Z UID:10000911-1697032800-1697038200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Israel Update with Avi Ben Hur DESCRIPTION:Israel Update with Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nIn the early hours of Saturday\, October 7\, 2023\, fifty years and one day since Egypt and Syria surprise attacked Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973\, Hamas launched a terrorist invasion into the South of Israel. \nThe Gazans who infiltrated Israel attacked civilians and military personnel. They were undeterred by age\, gender\, ability\, and even religion. Elderly were butchered\, children were murdered\, and even Arab Muslim citizens of Israel were executed. Israeli civilians as well as soldiers were kidnapped and dragged into the Gaza Strip. As of this writing\, at least 700 Israelis\, most of them civilians\, have been killed and more than 2300 have been injured in these attacks. The numbers rise as time goes by. \nThese actions by Hamas were not a military operation\, but a pogrom. Military operations do not target civilians and hold them hostage in foreign territory. As such\, Hamas\, Islamic Jihad\, and other Gazans who invaded Israel crossed a line that civilized people do not cross. Israel has every moral and legal right to defend its people and national sovereignty\, and to use all measures necessary to retrieve its captured citizens. Israel also has the basic human right of self-defense\, promised to all people and states via the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\, which the United Nations ratified after World War II and the independence of Israel. \nThe attacks by Gazans and the response by the Israeli Defense Forces are ongoing. This is the start of a vicious conflict that will exact the loss of many innocent lives in both Israel and the Gaza Strip. \nAvi Ben-Hur\n \nCWB Scholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders. From September 2021 to June 2022\, Avi led a course on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Avi’s course aimed to unravel its causes and core issues. Designed for educators\, the course made this complex subject accessible and equipped participants with tools to address it in their classrooms and engage with breaking news. Q & A sessions after each lecture allowed for in-depth discussions\, and suggested resources encouraged further exploration. Avi’s unique approach intersected critical angles\, offering a comprehensive understanding of the complexities. \n\n\nCover photo credit: Joel Carillet URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-update-with-avi-ben-hur-10-11/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Email-Promo-27.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T171500 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230804T125710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T172820Z UID:10000884-1696952700-1696958100@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:CHRISTIANS & JEWS – FROM CONFLICT TO COEXISTENCE DESCRIPTION:Today\, the nexus between Judaism and Christianity marks a high point in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. \nBut this was not always the case. Since the C2nd CE\, mainstream Christianity was resolutely anti-Jewish.\nThe myth of Jews as Christ-killers fuelled anti-Judaism and antisemitism through the Christian centuries and it was not until after the Holocaust that the Church embarked on a path towards reconciliation with the Jewish people.\nIn this short course we will trace the trajectory of Jewish-Christian relations from a position of conflict to one of coexistence. \nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/christians-jews-from-conflict-to-coexistence-2023-10-10/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Berenbaum-Museum-Panel-web-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T171500 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230804T125710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T172721Z UID:10000886-1696347900-1696353300@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:CHRISTIANS & JEWS – FROM CONFLICT TO COEXISTENCE DESCRIPTION:Today\, the nexus between Judaism and Christianity marks a high point in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. \nBut this was not always the case. Since the C2nd CE\, mainstream Christianity was resolutely anti-Jewish.\nThe myth of Jews as Christ-killers fuelled anti-Judaism and antisemitism through the Christian centuries and it was not until after the Holocaust that the Church embarked on a path towards reconciliation with the Jewish people.\nIn this short course we will trace the trajectory of Jewish-Christian relations from a position of conflict to one of coexistence. \nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/christians-jews-from-conflict-to-coexistence/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Berenbaum-Museum-Panel-web-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T153000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230511T152247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230928T232614Z UID:10000734-1695304800-1695310200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nOur sixth event in this series will feature a talk on Jewish Studies with Prof Shirli Gilbert (Director\, Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre and Prof at UCL)\, Prof Adam Mendelsohn (Director\, Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research\, UCT) and Prof Yael Siman (Associate Professor\, the Iberoamericana University\, Mexico) \nShirli Gilbert \nShirli Gilbert is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London and the co-editor of Jewish Historical Studies. She holds a D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the Holocaust and its legacies\, modern Jewish identity\, and Jews in South Africa\, and her books include Music in the Holocaust (2005)\, From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2017) and most recently\, with Avril Alba\, Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World (2017). \nAdam D. Mendelsohn \n \nAdam D. Mendelsohn is Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. The Centre\, the only of its kind in Africa\, conducts research focused on Jews in southern Africa\, past and present. He is the co-author of a recent report on racism\, xenophobia\, and antisemitism on social media in South Africa conducted in collaboration with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and KAS Media Africa. \nYael Siman \n \nYael Siman has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. She is the academic coordinator of the graduate program in social and political sciences at Iberoamericana University Mexico City. She is a member of the Mexican National Council of Science and an affiliated researcher of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She has investigated the displacement and migration trajectories of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Mexico and is currently working on an edited volume on the Holocaust and Latin America. \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners:\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film \nJune 15 2023 German Professionals and the Holocaust URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-7/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T173000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230821T151441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T171719Z UID:10000898-1695225600-1695231000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Empowering Educators: The Defiant Requiem Foundation's Innovative Teacher Training Program DESCRIPTION:Join us for an immersive journey into the past and present\, empowering you to enrich your teaching with resilience and creativity.\n\n\nSession 1: September 13th \nIn the first part of a two-part series\, The Defiant Requiem Foundation will introduce educators to the little-known but meaningful story of Jewish conductor Rafael Schächter and a group of prisoners in Terezín concentration camp who learned to sing Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass as an act of creative resistance. Participants will watch the 45 minute classroom-length version of the Defiant Requiem documentary film together and then join in a discussion with Foundation President Murry Sidlin. Maestro Sidlin will take questions about the story of Defiant Requiem and put it in the larger context of creative\, artistic\, and intellectual life in Terezín. \nSession 2: September 20th \nIn the second part of the two-part series\, Education Director Alexandra Zapruder will introduce educators to Defiant Requiem’s curriculum materials and programs\, focusing especially on modules designed for high school teachers in a variety of disciplines including social studies\, English language arts\, music\, and art. Through small group work and discussion\, teachers will also be introduced to several stories of contemporary acts of cultural resistance and will learn how they can bring these inspiring stories to their students. \n\n\nConductor\, Defiant Requiem Foundation \nMurry Sidlin\, a conductor with a unique gift for engaging audiences\, continues a diverse and distinctive musical career. He is the president and creative director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation\, an organization that sponsors live concert performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer; as well as other projects including the documentary film\, Defiant Requiem; a new docudrama called Mass Appeal\, 1943\, which was premiered in June 2017; and The Rafael Schächter Institute for Arts and Humanities at Terezín. In addition\, he lectures extensively on the arts and humanities as practiced by the prisoners in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp. \nMr. Sidlin began his career as assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony under Sergiu Comissiona and then was appointed resident conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra by Antal Doráti. He has served as music director of the New Haven and Long Beach (California) Symphonies\, the Tulsa Philharmonic\, and the Connecticut Ballet. \n\n\n\nAlexandra Zapruder \nAlexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. A graduate of Smith College\, she served on the curatorial team for the museum’s exhibition for young visitors\, Remember The Children\, Daniel’s Story. She earned her Ed.M. in Education at Harvard University in 1995. \nIn 2002\, Alexandra completed her first book\, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust\, which was published by Yale University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. It has since been published in Dutch and Italian. She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here\, a documentary film for young audiences based on her book\, which aired on MTV in May 2005 and was nominated for two Emmy awards. In the fall of 2015\, she completed a second paperback edition and a multimedia edition of Salvaged Pages and\, in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves\, published related educational materials designed for middle and high school teachers. She contributed an essay about young writers’ diaries to the Anne Frank House Permanent Catalogue\, which was published in eight languages. \nIn November 2016\, she published her second book\, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film\, which tells the story of her grandfather’s home movie of President Kennedy’s assassination. She curated a permanent exhibition titled And Still I Write: Young Diarists on War and Genocide which opened at Holocaust Museum Houston in 2019. In 2020\, in partnership with EIHR\, she launched a project called Dispatches from Quarantine which provided a platform for young people to document their real-time experiences of life during the Covid-19 Pandemic and published an online gallery showcasing their contributions in prose\, poetry\, photography\, art\, and song. In 2021-22\, she ghostwrote a forthcoming memoir about a German-Jewish refugee family during the Holocaust and consulted on an online-exhibition at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski from the Vilna Ghetto. \nAlexandra serves as the Education Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR)\, a nonprofit that develops partnerships with teachers in post-conflict countries to provide training in best practices on human rights\, genocide prevention\, and Holocaust education. \nShe has been published in Parade\, LitHub\, Smithsonian\, and The New York Times. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/empowering-educators-the-defiant-requiem-foundations-innovative-teacher-training-program/2023-09-20/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Email-Promo-16.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T173000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230821T190506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T123153Z UID:10000899-1695139200-1695144600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:"War and Harmony: Leonard Cohen's Yom Kippur Reflections"-with Rabbi Jonty Blackman DESCRIPTION:As Yom Kippur approaches and we commemorate 50 years since the Yom Kippur War\, join us for a unique and soul-stirring event that weaves together music\, history\, and art. Delve into the heart of the war through the lens of legendary musician Leonard Cohen and his compositions that resonate with the tumultuous times. Drawing inspiration from the book shared by Matti Friedman\, we’ll explore Cohen’s profound connection to the war and the soulful notes he created during that period. This session offers a fresh perspective on the significance of Yom Kippur\, inviting you to reflect and connect in a way that’s both thought-provoking and deeply moving. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the power of music and storytelling as we prepare for the Fast. \nJoin Rabbi Jonty Blackman for an illuminating event\n\n\n\nJonty has led many seminars and missions in Poland and Israel and is a gifted educator and a fascinating storyteller. Jonty has a unique way of connecting his teachings to his audience\, such that their experience of learning leaves a deep and enduring impact on their lives. He weaves together Jewish history with philosophy\, culture with archaeology\, and the tragedy of the Holocaust with probing\, source-based theological questions. His intricate knowledge of Jewish history and the Holocaust\, combined with his analytical and sensitive approach to challenging philosophical questions offers students a profound educational experience. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/war-and-harmony-with-rabbi-jonty-blackman/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/f0b443cd66a6b7cc59fa8872e9e56b8a-fi8Z0g.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T173000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230821T151441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T171719Z UID:10000897-1694620800-1694626200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Empowering Educators: The Defiant Requiem Foundation's Innovative Teacher Training Program DESCRIPTION:Join us for an immersive journey into the past and present\, empowering you to enrich your teaching with resilience and creativity.\n\n\nSession 1: September 13th \nIn the first part of a two-part series\, The Defiant Requiem Foundation will introduce educators to the little-known but meaningful story of Jewish conductor Rafael Schächter and a group of prisoners in Terezín concentration camp who learned to sing Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass as an act of creative resistance. Participants will watch the 45 minute classroom-length version of the Defiant Requiem documentary film together and then join in a discussion with Foundation President Murry Sidlin. Maestro Sidlin will take questions about the story of Defiant Requiem and put it in the larger context of creative\, artistic\, and intellectual life in Terezín. \nSession 2: September 20th \nIn the second part of the two-part series\, Education Director Alexandra Zapruder will introduce educators to Defiant Requiem’s curriculum materials and programs\, focusing especially on modules designed for high school teachers in a variety of disciplines including social studies\, English language arts\, music\, and art. Through small group work and discussion\, teachers will also be introduced to several stories of contemporary acts of cultural resistance and will learn how they can bring these inspiring stories to their students. \n\n\nConductor\, Defiant Requiem Foundation \nMurry Sidlin\, a conductor with a unique gift for engaging audiences\, continues a diverse and distinctive musical career. He is the president and creative director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation\, an organization that sponsors live concert performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer; as well as other projects including the documentary film\, Defiant Requiem; a new docudrama called Mass Appeal\, 1943\, which was premiered in June 2017; and The Rafael Schächter Institute for Arts and Humanities at Terezín. In addition\, he lectures extensively on the arts and humanities as practiced by the prisoners in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp. \nMr. Sidlin began his career as assistant conductor of the Baltimore Symphony under Sergiu Comissiona and then was appointed resident conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra by Antal Doráti. He has served as music director of the New Haven and Long Beach (California) Symphonies\, the Tulsa Philharmonic\, and the Connecticut Ballet. \n\n\n\nAlexandra Zapruder \nAlexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. A graduate of Smith College\, she served on the curatorial team for the museum’s exhibition for young visitors\, Remember The Children\, Daniel’s Story. She earned her Ed.M. in Education at Harvard University in 1995. \nIn 2002\, Alexandra completed her first book\, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust\, which was published by Yale University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. It has since been published in Dutch and Italian. She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here\, a documentary film for young audiences based on her book\, which aired on MTV in May 2005 and was nominated for two Emmy awards. In the fall of 2015\, she completed a second paperback edition and a multimedia edition of Salvaged Pages and\, in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves\, published related educational materials designed for middle and high school teachers. She contributed an essay about young writers’ diaries to the Anne Frank House Permanent Catalogue\, which was published in eight languages. \nIn November 2016\, she published her second book\, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film\, which tells the story of her grandfather’s home movie of President Kennedy’s assassination. She curated a permanent exhibition titled And Still I Write: Young Diarists on War and Genocide which opened at Holocaust Museum Houston in 2019. In 2020\, in partnership with EIHR\, she launched a project called Dispatches from Quarantine which provided a platform for young people to document their real-time experiences of life during the Covid-19 Pandemic and published an online gallery showcasing their contributions in prose\, poetry\, photography\, art\, and song. In 2021-22\, she ghostwrote a forthcoming memoir about a German-Jewish refugee family during the Holocaust and consulted on an online-exhibition at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski from the Vilna Ghetto. \nAlexandra serves as the Education Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR)\, a nonprofit that develops partnerships with teachers in post-conflict countries to provide training in best practices on human rights\, genocide prevention\, and Holocaust education. \nShe has been published in Parade\, LitHub\, Smithsonian\, and The New York Times. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/empowering-educators-the-defiant-requiem-foundations-innovative-teacher-training-program/2023-09-13/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Email-Promo-16.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T173000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T102446Z UID:10000848-1687363200-1687368600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nOur 6th and Final session in this Series\nFeaturing a Conversation with Michael Berenbaum and Elliot Resnick on “Representative Sol Bloom: The Moral Conflicts of an American-Jewish Congressman During the Holocaust”\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nElliot Resnick\, PhD \n \nElliot Resnick\, PhD\, is the former chief editor of The Jewish Press and the author of several books\, including the soon-to-be-published America First: The Story of the Most Powerful Jew in Congress During the Holocaust. \nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square \nMay 17th 2023 A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum on the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea.\n\n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T153000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230327T022523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230616T002033Z UID:10000870-1686837600-1686843000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nOur 5th Session will feature \nDr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. \nGerman Professionals and the Holocaust\n  \nThe most significant perpetrators of the crimes committed during the Holocaust are well known: Hitler\, Himmler\, and Heydrich\, as well as the SS\, among others. But less known are the contributions of “ordinary” people—doctors\, lawyers\, teachers\, civil servants\, officers\, and other professionals throughout German society—whose individual actions\, when taken together\, resulted in dire consequences. Put simply\, the Holocaust could not have happened without them. This program will explore the motives and contribution of ordinary German professionals and their contribution to the Nazi racial agenda and to Nazi crimes. \nWilliam Frederick Meinecke Jr. \n29 May 2012\, Historian\, William Meinecke\, stands for a staff portrait\nWilliam Frederick Meinecke Jr.: Born May 16\, 1961 in Baltimore Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree in German and History from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County in 1983. He attended the University of Bonn and Berlin in Germany and received his MA (1988) and also his Ph.D. (1998) in history from the University of Maryland at College Park. The title of his dissertation was Conflicting Loyalties: The Supreme Court in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1945. In 1992 William joined the staff of the Wexner Learning Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.  He was on the design team of the center’s multi-media program on the Holocaust\, the Historical Atlas of the Holocaust (Book and CD-ROM) and the Student Learning web site on the Holocaust. His book\, Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust was published by the Museum in December 2007. In June 2000 William joined the staff of Museum’s Education Division. For the last twenty years William has worked with law enforcement officers\, judges\, prosecutors and attorneys in the Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust training program. He is currently working in the Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education on programming for the Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC \n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-5/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T163000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230427T213048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T153621Z UID:10000878-1686236400-1686241800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Traces: Portraits of Resistance\, Survival and Resolve DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Traces Trilogy: Portraits of Resistance\, Survival and Resolve\nwith Executive producer\nDr. Judith S. Goldstein and Writer Samuel George\nModerated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nEncouraging resistance and resilience through \ndocumentary film\n  \nHumanity in Action is a proud producer of enlightening\, affecting and poignant documentary films. From short animated films to feature-length documentary productions\, Humanity in Action films tackle difficult and harrowing subject matter\, while calling viewers to take on increased democratic responsibility in line with the organization’s mission. \nSeventy-seven years after the fall of Nazi Germany\, the Holocaust stands as a staggering crime against humanity\, and the world continues to grapple with the deep void of the six million souls lost. Yet\, in the face of unfathomable horror\, fleeting moments of bravery and generosity remind us of our capacity for courage and compassion even under the most harrowing circumstances. \nThe Traces trilogy brings three such histories to life and to new audiences. Developed by an international team of documentarians\, researchers and animators\, the trilogy preserves these critical stories for future generations. \nThe Traces trilogy is a Humanity in Action production\, with generous support from the Alfred Landecker Foundation and the Danish Foreign Ministry. It includes the films Voices in the Void\, Two Trees in Jerusalem and My Father’s War. \n \n\n \n\n\nExecutive producer Dr. Judith S. Goldstein \nDr. Goldstein received a Bachelors degree from Cornell University in 1962 with a concentration on European and American history. As a Woodrow Wilson Scholar at Columbia University\, she then studied for a Masters degree in European history. In 1972\, Judith completed her doctoral studies at Columbia University after writing her dissertation on “The Politics of Ethnic Pressure: The American Jewish Committee Fight Against Immigration Restriction:1906-1917.” This work was the beginning of a sustained concentration on immigration and diversity in America and Europe. She then continued to work at Columbia University over 10 years by focusing on an oral history project on Ethnic Groups and American Foreign Policy. In 1992\, William Morrow published her book Crossing Lines: Histories of Jews and Gentiles in Three Communities. In 2006\, Rutger University Press published Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and American Dreams. Judith worked as the Executive Director of Thanks To Scandinavia\, started by the Danish pianist Victor Borge to acknowledge Scandinavians who resisted Nazism and protected Jews during the Second World War. In 1997\, Judith founded Humanity in Action and has served as its Executive Director until April 2023. Programs have included fellowships and internships in Europe and the United States\, annual publications\, photography exhibitions\, films\, and conferences. Over 23 years the organization has engaged over 2\,750 college and university students in its programs and raised over $31 million. Judith has served on the Board of The Frances Perkins Foundation and the Somes Pond Center\, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n\nWriter Samuel George \nis a documentary filmmaker\, writer\, and an analyst of international affairs. His films bring viewers up close and personal to people and communities facing the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. From the Turkish-Syrian border\, to the maquiladora districts of Juarez\, Mexico\, to incipient political movements in Naples\, Italy\, George’s films offer candid reflections of daily life that allow viewers to draw their own conclusions. Serving as the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Global Market & Digital Advisor\, his recent documentaries include Out to Vote\, Go-Go City: Displacement & Protest in Washington\, DC\, and Swing State Florida. His written projects include the graphic book The No Collar Economy\, and its follow-up\, Our Digital World. George holds a master’s degree in international politics and economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington\, DC. He is currently completing a PhD at that same institution. \n\n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. \n\n\n\nThank you to our partners: URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-traces-portraits-of-resistance-survival-and-resolve/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/dfa462d70b541c6ed3e3f4efb8ac0887-acCdfS.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T153000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230327T022648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230521T133447Z UID:10000871-1684418400-1684423800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:Join CWB and our partners as we explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses. \n “Holocaust Cinema: How ‘A Film Unfinished’ Questions Archival Footage” \nFeaturing Annette Insdorf \nThe growing genre of Holocaust Cinema includes films made by members of the third generation of survivors in Israel. \nInsdorf will discuss two exemplary documentaries: “Numbered” (2012\, Dana Doron & Uriel Sinai\, Israel\, 55 minutes) focuses on the tattoos of Auschwitz survivors – who view their numbers in unique ways – as well as the process of recording and representing survivors. “A Film Unfinished” is directed by Yael Hersonski (2010\, Israel\, 88 minutes). She juxtaposes archival footage of the Warsaw Ghetto – taken by Nazis throughout May 1942 – with a contemporary interrogation of whether images can be trusted. \nAnnette Insdorf \n \nAnnette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and Moderator of the popular “Reel Pieces” series at Manhattan’s 92Y\, where she has interviewed almost 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study\, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives\, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut\, a study of the French director’s work; Philip Kaufman\, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes\, currently in its fourth printing. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27th 2023 Education URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-6/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T173000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T154710Z UID:10000847-1684339200-1684344600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMay 17th 2023 Session Featuring\nA conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum \nDuring the 1930s and 1940s there were a number of films depicting Hitler and the Nazi assault against the Jews – it was not yet called the Holocaust\, in fact it was a “crime without name.” As part of our five part series on America and the Holocaust\, we will consider the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea. \nMichael Berlin\, screenwriter and founder of the Jewish Film Festival of Orange County\, CA. \nMichael Berlin\, Ph.D.\, associate professor of Screenwriting\, Cal State Long Beach\, screenwriter and producer\, currently works for ABC and Wide World Disney. He has written and produced over 150 episodes of dramatic TV scripts ranging from award winning “Cagney and Lacy\,” “Miami Vice\,” “Quantum Leap\,” “The Commish\,” “Murder She Wrote\,” and “Sisters” to Steven Spielberg’s “Earth 2” and Gene Rodenbury’s “Earth: Final Conflict.” Feature film credits include “Breaking Point\,” “Gaudi\,” “Robo Warriors\,” and “Anguish\,” the winner of 10 European awards including Best Picture at the Sitges Film Festival\, Spain. A Ph.D. psychologist\, he is a former associate professor of Psychology and Film and dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Developmental Studies in Los Angeles. He has been the host of Orange County’s University Synagogue Jewish Film Festival for 10 years\, and is currently Adjunct Film Curator at the Bower’s Museum of Cultural Art. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n April 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-5-2/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T163000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230426T173122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T163153Z UID:10000883-1683817200-1683822600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Game Changers with Director Noam Sobovitz and Professor Zimeremann DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Game Changers\n\n\nSynopsis \nHow did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust\, against insurmountable emotional and political barriers and threats of terror\, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with former German and Israeli footballers\, historians\, and diplomats\, along with rare archival materials\, the film examines the power of personal friendships to bring down the wall between nations\, and of football\, to pave the way between adversaries. \nNoam Sobovitz: Director \n \nNoam Sobovitz is a young-generation Israeli filmmaker and “Game Changers” is his debute feature doc. A graduate of Tel Aviv University film school\, Noam was the editorial producer of a docu-series about the ultra-orthodox media in Israel “The Right Not to Know” for KAN 11. His film “Homecoming” for HOT won the best short film at Astra Film Festival. \n \n\n \n \nThank you to our partners URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-game-changers-with-director-noam-sobovitz/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/poste-rgb-eng-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T153000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230302T152506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T153018Z UID:10000867-1682604000-1682609400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nOur 3rd Session will feature \nWhy Should We Care? \nThe Holocaust and Public Humanities \nwith Professor Björn Krondorfer \n  \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nWhile we are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\, we want to stay alert to the fact that for students learning about it today\, this history is more than three generations ago. We should not assume that either students\, teachers or the general public easily connect to the history and legacy of the Holocaust. Krondorfer will talk about his experiences with Public Humanities projects that help to connect us to the Holocaust. \n \nProf Bjorn Krondorfer \nBjörn Krondorfer is Regents’ Professor and the Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University. As Endowed Professor of Religious Studies\, he also teaches in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. He received his Ph.D. at Temple University\, Philadelphia. His field of expertise is religion\, gender\, and culture\, and (post-) Holocaust and reconciliation studies. His scholarship helped to define the field of Critical Men’s Studies in Religions. \nIn 2007-08\, he was guest professor at the Institute of Theology and the History of Religion at the Freie University Berlin\, Germany\, and he held the status of visiting Faculty Affiliate at the University of the Free State\, South Africa. He received a Senior Research Fellowship at the Vrije University in Amsterdam (2016/2017) and is the recipient of the Norton Dodge Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievements. He is currently the VP of the “Association of Public Religious and Intellectual Life” (APRIL) and in 2020 was elected chair of the “Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Human Rights Studies.” He has been invited to speak\, present his research\, and facilitate intercultural seminars in Armenia\, Australia\, Austria\, Belgium\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Canada\, Finland\, Germany\, Italy\, Israel & Palestine\, Poland\, South Africa\, South Korea\, Switzerland\, The Netherlands\, United Kingdom\, and the United States \nAs director of the Martin-Springer Institute\, he has organized several international academic symposia. He has mentored the creation of several exhibits: Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto; Resilience: Women in Flagstaff’s Past and Present; and the permanent installation of a Berlin Wall exhibit at NAU. He has curated the art exhibitions Wounded Landscapes (2014) and Echoes of Loss: Artistic Responses to Trauma (2018). In 2019\, he has been awarded a one-month residential fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute on the theme of “truth and reconciliation.” \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23\, 2023 Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023 Eli M. Rosenbaum and Dr. Tamir Hod  on Achieving Legal Accountability for WWII Nazi Crimes: Experiences of the Israel National Police and US Department of Justice  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-4/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T173000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T155925Z UID:10000846-1682524800-1682530200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring:\nCharles Gallagher S.J.\,  on Nazis in Copley Square\n  \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n \nFather Gallagher is a Professor of History at Boston College who has written an  important book about Nazi activities – German and American Nazi  activities – in Boston. It is a major study of how German government officials and Nazi allies in America \, most especially the  German American Bund worked in tandem to try to undermine US support for Britain and for Jews and to strengthen American isolationism in the crucial pre-war years. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nMay 17th 2023 featuring’s Session: A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-3/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T163000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230308T172737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T175159Z UID:10000868-1682002800-1682008200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Air Born DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Air Born:\nwith Liat Eini-Netzer & moderator Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nA fascinating little-known historical tale is stirringly recounted in Air Born\, an inspiring documentary that brings the story of the children who grew up in Israeli air force bases housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s. \nIn a civilian housing complex surrounded by a bustling military base where his father served\, director Yoram Ivry recalls his childhood protected by a fence and a guard with an endless feeling of freedom and security\, full of dramatic events that influenced his life and the lives of so many other children who grew up in the shadow of wars. \nCelebrating the heroism and derring-do attitude of Israeli pilots\, Air Born also touchingly conveys a valuable history lesson that is both informative and inspirational. \nLiat Eini-Netzer is a senior partner at B. Levinbook & Co. \n \nMs. Eini-Netzer lives in Tel Aviv\, married and mother of 3 children. \nMs. Eini-Netzer has 30 years of experience in every aspect of civil and commercial litigation\, in all courts\, and in all areas of substantive law. She has represented clients including leading corporations in Israel and abroad\, the majority of banks in Israel\, overseas banks\, various financial bodies\, institutions\, public companies\, and more. \nMs. Eini-Netzer also possesses outstanding specialist expertise and experience in banking regulation. In addition\, her unique skills ideally position her to advise service providers\, primarily banks\, and represent them in standard form contracts. \nFurthermore\, Ms. Eini-Netzer provides pro bono legal representation and assistance for non-profit organizations that strive to advance worthy causes. She also lectures at various forums and seminars on a range of subjects\, including banking law. \nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-air-born/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/14596f1d3f430f58d767546f7dd0fe22-hZeHfl.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T153000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230220T121648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T202732Z UID:10000864-1679580000-1679585400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nMarch Session  \nAchieving Legal Accountability for WWII Nazi Crimes: Experiences of the Israel National Police and US Department of Justice\n  \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah International (GSI) and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nEli M. Rosenbaum will be talking about some of the experiences he has had prosecuting Nazis in the US.  He would explore some of the challenges the US Department of Justice has had to deal\, such as finding documents\, witnesses\, and more years and decades after the crimes were committed\, in another country and continent. \nEli M. Rosenbaum \n Photo credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum\n \nEli M. Rosenbaum is the longest serving investigator and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals and other human rights violators in world history.  He has served since 2010 as Director of Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP).  In June 2022\, he was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to serve concurrently as Counselor for War Crimes Accountability\, tasked with coordinating efforts across the Justice Department and with other federal agencies and authorities abroad to hold accountable persons responsible for war crimes and other atrocities committed in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked invasion.  Those efforts are spearheaded by DOJ’s newly created War Crimes Accountability Team\, which he heads and which draws on the extensive expertise of HRSP staff\, supplemented by contributions of professionals in other Justice Department components.  A veteran 37-year Justice Department prosecutor\, Rosenbaum served initially as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI)\, eventually serving as OSI’s Director from 1995 to 2010\, when OSI was merged into the newly created HRSP.  OSI was responsible for identifying\, investigating\, and taking legal action against perpetrators of World War II-era Nazi crimes of persecution\, and its mission was later expanded to include persons complicit in human rights crimes committed in post-WWII conflicts.  He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania\, where he earned undergraduate and MBA degrees\, and Harvard Law School.  He has received numerous awards for his work\, including the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and the “Heroes in Blue” award of the Anti-Defamation League. \nTamir’s focus will be on Israel Police Unit for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes – Holocaust Survivors’ Legal Retribution.  \nIn 1958\, the Central Office of Judicial Administration for the investigation of Nazi crimes was established in Germany. Documenting the actions of Nazi criminals in preparation for their trial brought the bureau’s representatives to contact the Israeli Police in order to help them gather evidence from Holocaust survivors residing in the country. Consequently\, a police unit was needed to deal with the increasing number of inquiries from Germany. For that purpose\, the unit for the investigation of Nazi crimes was established in the Israeli Police. Two years later\, Adolf Eichmann was captured and brought to Israel. This event deeply affected the sentiments of Israeli society toward the Holocaust. One of the impacts was Holocaust survivors who contacted the unit requesting to provide their testimonies. \nMany of the appeals included names of Nazi criminals who could potentially be located and prosecuted. The special police unit comprised almost completely of Holocaust survivors. The survivors played an important role in collecting and documenting the historical records available to us today. Many of the unit members had lost their families in the Holocaust. It may be conjectured that they sought vengeance upon those who committed the crimes. Nonetheless\, if indeed they had such feelings\, they were translated into long hours of detailed legal work that would lead to proper legal procedures through which it would be possible to bring the perpetrators to justice. \nDr. Tamir Hod \n \nDr. Tamir Hod is a historian in the field of World War II and the Holocaust\, as well as the impact of Holocaust remembrance on Israeli society. The topic of his doctoral thesis was the Demjanjuk trial case in Israel\, under the guidance of Prof. Hanna Yablonka. Dr. Hod researched the role the Ukrainian collaborators played in the Treblinka extermination camp. These days\, Tamir is working on a book about the Nazi Crimes Investigations Unit in the Israeli Police. The unit\, which was founded in 1960\, was mainly composed of Holocaust survivors and contributed greatly to various trials in different places around the world against Nazi criminals and their collaborators. Dr. Tamir Hod teaches at Tel Hai Academic College and Western Galilee Academic College. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23\, 2023 Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust\n\nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-3/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T173000 DTSTAMP:20260708T110832 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T160003Z UID:10000845-1678896000-1678901400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMarch 15th 2023\nRefuge Must Be Given\,\nEleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust\n  \nFeaturing: John Sears \n \nJohn Sears’s special interests include landscape history as well as the lives and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. \nSears served as executive director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute from 1986 until 1999 and as associate editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers from 2000–2007. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. I appeared in 2007. Before joining the Roosevelt Institute\, he taught at Tufts\, Boston University\, and Vassar. \nSears divides his time between Northampton\, MA and Hawley\, a hilltown in Western Massachusetts where his paternal ancestors settled in the late 1700s. He grows trees and produces maple syrup on the land he owns. As a board member of the Sons & Daughters of Hawley\, the town’s historical society\, he helped create Hawley’s Old Town Common historic site. Sears served on the Hawley selectboard from 2013 until 2017. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Disability History Museum. \nBOOK SUMMARY: \nJohn F. Sears\, Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt\, the Jewish Plight and the Founding of Israel (West Lafayette\, IN: Purdue University Press\, 2022) pp. 327. \nThroughout Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein six hour documentary America and the Holocaust one name kept being mentioned time and again\, Eleanor Roosevelt who in her column My Day\, public statements\, public activities and private exchanges was a fierce advocate of admitting Jewish refugees to the United States in the years when their admission was the difference between life and death. John Sears who has directed the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in the 1980s and 90s and edited Eleanor Roosevelt’s papers\, which were published in 2007 has written an important book detailing her work on behalf of Jewish refugees during her years as First Lady and then\, perhaps more importantly and more effectively in her public career after the death of her husband on April 12\, 1945\, when no longer constrained by the limitations of her role and her marriage she could speak her mind\, lend her name and energies to the post-war refugee crisis. Eleanor Roosevelt then became a fierce advocate for the creation of the Jewish State and was an integral part of the efforts 75 years ago this week to pass the November 19\, 1947 United Nations Resolution supporting the establishment of a separate Jewish and Arab State in Mandate Palestine. \nIt wasn’t supposed to happen quite that way. Judging from her childhood upbringing and the antisemitism that characterized elite\, monied WASP society\, Eleanor Roosevelt was a young antisemite. One can go through her early writings\, family history and see a hatred of Jews shared by her social class\, freely expressed\, seldom condemned\, widely assumed. Ironically\, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s family was far more accepted of Jews who were business colleagues of his father as well as neighbors in Hyde Park. Yet by the time that FDR became Governor – Jews were an essential part of his coalition – and well before he became President Eleanor’s views had changed and as her social circle widened  and her experience broadened\, she enjoyed enduring and close friendships with Jews\, most especially Jewish women\,’ \nUnlike her husband who say things in political terms\, Eleanor Roosevelt saw things in deeply personal terms\, perhaps a reflection of their genders\, perhaps also a reflection of her innate shyness. FDR was outgoing and gregarious. He talked more than he listened. ER visited many places he could not go because of his physical limitations \, she not only saw more but listened more and reflected upon what she heard. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nApril\, May and June Guests COMING SOON\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring’s Session: A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht:The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews”  Featuring: Rick Richman\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-4/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR