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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussions: "People Love Dead Jews" with Dr. Josh Andy
DESCRIPTION:This program is geared for educators\, but open to all.(Act 48 credit hours or a letter of participation is available upon request.) \nThe book discussions will be offered on the following dates and times:\nNEW DATES!\nDecember 7\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nDecember 14\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nDecember 21\, 2021 | 4:00-5:00pm\nAbout The Book \nA startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to flatter the living\nReflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank\, the blockbuster traveling exhibition called ​“Auschwitz\,” the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin\, and the little known ​“righteous Gentile” Varian Fry\, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths\, as emblematic of the worst of evils the world has to offer\, and so little respect for Jewish lives\, as they continue to unfold in the present. \nHorn draws on her own family’s life — trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious 10-year-old\, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks at her children’s school in New Jersey\, the profound and essential perspective offered by traditional religious practice\, prayer\, and study — to assert the vitality\, complexity\, and depth of this life against an anti-Semitism that\, far from being disarmed by the mantra of ​“Never forget\,” is on the rise \nDr. Josh Andy \nDr. Josh Andy is a full time teacher at Winchester Thurston School\, and an educational programs leader and Holocaust scholar with Classrooms Without Borders. An accomplished and award winning educator\, Dr. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University and teaches in the Upper School. In addition to teaching Genocide and Holocaust Studies\, he teaches a course on the modern Middle East\, Multicultural America\, and AP European history. Next year he will teach Russian history. He has traveled internationally to study global cultures and issues as part of his work to design engaging courses for his students. He earned WT’s Mary Houston Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014\, which funded his trip to Amman\, Jordan\, to develop his Middle East course. \nAbout the Author: Dara Horn \nDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books\, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002)\, The World to Come (Norton 2006)\, All Other Nights (Norton 2009)\, A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013)\, and Eternal Life (Norton 2018)\, and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007)\, she is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award\, the Harold U. Ribalow Award\, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize\, and she was a finalist for the Wingate Prize\, the Simpson Family Literary Prize\, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. \nHer books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books\, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade\, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year\, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian Magazine\, and The Jewish Review of Books\, among many other publications\, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet Magazine. Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University\, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University\, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America\, Israel\, and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children. \nFor those that would like to plan ahead our next book for December & January will be: ‘ All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler’ by Rebecca Donner (Author)
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SUMMARY:Love with No Tomorrow Tales of Romance During the Holocaust Book Launch with Mindell Pierce\, (Author)\, Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein\, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Love with No Tomorrow: Tales of Romance During the Holocaust: Book Launch with Mindell Pierce\, (Author)\, Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein\, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum\nWednesday\, December 1\, 2021\n4:00pm-5:30pm ET \nRegister \nLove at first sight. During the Holocaust. Bonds as strong as steel\, forged in the flames of hate.\nThese are extraordinary stories of love affairs during the most dangerous\, degrading\, and deadly conditions of genocidal persecution. The extreme lengths to which two people will go to express their love\, and the superhuman strength that is derived from such love\, is the stuff of miracles and endless inspiration. This little-known aspect of the Holocaust\, seen through the eyes of those in love\, is a unique contribution to our understanding of the best and the worst qualities of human nature. This book must be read by anyone who wants to know more about life and love enduring the most horrendous conditions one could imagine. \nMindelle Pierce \nMindelle Pierce has dedicated over fifteen years of her career to studying and teaching the history of the Holocaust. As a child of Holocaust survivors herself\, she has a personal connection and insight into this history. Mindelle continues to contribute her knowledge and research to many renowned organizations\, including the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York; the Museum of Jewish Heritage; and Manhattan College. She lives in Margate City\, New Jersey. \nRabbi Micah Becker-Klein \nRabbi Micah Becker-Klein (RRC 2000) serves as rabbi to the Community Hvaurah of Delaware. Micah is the owner of Roasting Rabbi Coffee (roastingrabbi.com) A coffee roasting company that inspires holy elevation in each batch to be shared on special days and in everyday life. In every coffee varietal we “release the holy spark in each bean!” We believe great coffee and great people go together and value people-to-people partnerships as a means to building a world of justice. Therefore\, a percentage of profits is donated to grassroots peace efforts. \nMicah attended the List College Joint program with Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary for undergraduate studies and graduate rabbinical training at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He served as assistant editor for the “Kol Heneshamah: Yamim Nora’im” High Holy Day prayerbook published by the Reconstructionist Press. He has served on the faculty at the University of Delaware\, Keene State College\, and Keene State Holocaust Education Center\, and served as director of Jewish Life and Education at the Springfield Jewish Community Center in Springfield\, MA. In the area of Jewish food\, Micah is a mashgi’ach\, and specialist in “micro-shechitah” and has served as a lecturer to the Delaware Culinary Arts program. Micah has served on the Camp JRF board and served on the faculty for many years. He is married to Rachel and is the father of Sophie and Reuben. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict Series with Avi Ben Hur Session III
DESCRIPTION:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur\nTuesday\, May 31\, 2022\n2:00-3:30 ET\nZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nArab-Israeli Conflict Course with CWB In House Scholar Avi Ben Hur\nThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels:\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives:\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession IX: Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\nIn December 1987\, the Palestinians re-entered the Israeli consciousness with the outbreak of massive civil disobedience that spread from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in the so-called “Intifada.” Although this uprising petered out by 1991\, by September 1993 Israeli and PLO representatives began a political process in an attempt to come to a final peace agreement between the sides. These talks and accords continued until the summer of 2000 when they collapsed in Camp David. Within weeks a second Intifada broke out which was characterized by Palestinian bombing attacks on the Israeli civilian population. Israel responded with force and the construction of a barrier to thwart the bombers. In 2005 Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip. This resulted in the armed takeover of the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and 4 subsequent conflicts with Israel in 2008/9\, 2012\, 2014 and 2021. Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not existed for the past 6 years. \nSubjects to be covered: The 1st Intifada\, the Oslo Process\, 2nd Intifada\, Gaza redeployment\, 2005-2021 \nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nFinal SESSION in this series: \nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar 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. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact ellen@classroomswithoutborders.org \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World |  Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory.\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur May Event in this Series: ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’. will feature Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates.\nTali Nates \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many 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) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nHannah Lessing \nHannah Lessing has been Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism since 1995. She has also headed the General Settlement Fund since 2001 and the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria since 2010 – three Funds carrying out their work in remembrance of the victims. \nHannah Lessing is Co-Head of the Austrian delegation to the “International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance” (IHRA). Since March 2011\, she has been Austria’s representative on the International Committee of the Auschwitz Foundation and Member of the Board of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. \nIn 2001\, as a member of the Austrian delegation headed by Ambassador Sucharipa\, Hannah Lessing participated in the negotiations on compensation issues conducted by Under-Secretary of State Stuart Eizenstat\, which led to the signature of the Joint Statement in Washington in 2001. Following this Agreement\, the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism was established in 2001 in order to achieve a comprehensive resolution to open questions of compensation for victims of National Socialism. \nEstablished in order to express the moral responsibility of the Republic of Austria towards victims of National Socialism\, the National Fund carries out a range of activities related to matters of restitution and compensation and the conveyance of historical awareness. \nHannah Lessing has lectured extensively on the work of the three Funds\, as well as in connection with national and international commemoration activities regarding the Holocaust. \nDr. Albert Lichtblau \nDr. Albert Lichtblau was Professor of History at the University of Salzburg\, Austria\, where he is chair and vice-chair of the Centre for Jewish Cultural History. His areas of research include contemporary history\, holocaust\, genocide and migration studies\, but also oral history and audio-visual history. Currently\, he was working on various projects like the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum or the Austrian Heritage Collection. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: Session #1 ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 at 1pm ET/19h00 SAST “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha\nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec).\nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\,\nUpcoming Events:\nJoin us in September and October for our 2 final sessions.\nDetails coming soon!\nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Israel Update with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an update and overview about the current situation in Israel.You are invited to participate in an update on Israel offered once per month. Given the events in the past few months\, from the recent conflict with Gaza to the internal political upheaval in Israel there is a necessity to get an educated view from the “inside”. We are offering an opportunity to hear from our in-house scholar – Avi Ben-Hur – as he helps us navigate and understand what is happening with the cease-fire with Hamas and the potential change of leadership of the Israeli government. \nConcluding Session for this Series:\nNovember 16\, 2021 Israel and Climate Change\, Jewish worship at the Western Wall\, & Archaeology Update\nPrevious sessions:\nOctober 12\, 2021 – Covid Update\, The Temple Mount\, The Other Epidemic: Violence & Crime in Arab society\, and New Archeological Finds\nSeptember 14\, 2021 – Jail Break\, Marriage Survey\, and Archaeological Findings\nAugust 17\, 2021: Israel-Poland Relations\, Resurgence of Covid – the Delta Variant\, Climate Change & Jerusalem Wildfires\, and the Olympians\nJuly 6\, 2021: Update on the new government\, Covid-19 in Israel and more.\nJune 22\, 2021: The 36th Government of Israel- June 2021\nJune 8 & May 19: How did this happen and where is it going?\nThe present malaise confounding Israel caught everyone by surprise. How did things slide out of control so quickly? What are the major challenges facing Israel at this very moment? How is the conflict impacting the political impasse since the recent March elections? What does the future hold for the relations between Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel?\nOur scholar in residence will be speaking about all of the above issues and more this coming Wednesday… \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar 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.
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SUMMARY:Muranow Post Film Discussion with film director Chen Shelach in conversation with Natalia Aleksiun
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, and Liberation75 is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Muranow” and engage in a post-film discussion with the documentary Film  Director Chen Shelach  and CWB Scholar Natalia Aleksiun The Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw was a flourishing and important Jewish center. During World War II the neighborhood was turned into the ”Warsaw Ghetto” When the war ended the neighborhood was rebuilt with the rubble of its own destruction. Today thousands of Polish people live in the green and spacious Muranow neighborhood\, yet its dark past keeps haunting it. Polish residents claim that Jewish ghosts live in the neighborhood.  \nJews’ ghosts live In Muranow neighborhood in Warsaw. At night\, they shake off the dust and ashes that cover them and start wonder the streets that used to belong to them before the Second World War during which the neighborhood turned into the biggest ghetto in history. The neighborhood was ruined as a result of Germans’ bombarding and thousands of Jews were buried underneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. Their bodies\, as well as the ruins of the buildings\, were never removed. The remains of life served as raw materials for the building of the new neighborhood built on the ruins. The new neighborhood has the same name as the old one: “Muranow”. The streets of the new neighborhood bear the names of the streets prior to the devastation\, but other than that\, there is total disconnection between past and present. The distance between the physical\, spacious and green appearance and the human tragedy hidden under the ground is almost endless. Perhaps this is the reason why the ghosts go out at night\, to reclaim what used to be theirs in the past. Some of the Polish residents of Muranow claim they have met the ghosts. Others think that the ghosts are only a metaphor for the implications of the lives\, culture and memory that were buried. \nNatalia Aleksiun \nNatalia Aleksiun\, professor of modern Jewish history at Touro College\, New York is the incoming Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida-Gainesville. She studied Polish and Jewish history at the Warsaw University\, the Graduate School of Social Studies in Warsaw and Hebrew University in Jerusalem and New York University. She received her doctorates from Warsaw University and  New York University. She is the author of Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944–1950) (Warsaw\, 2002)\, co-editor of several volumes\, including Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\,  vol. 29: Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe (2017)\, and European Holocaust Studies\, vol. 3: (Places\, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust). She is co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. In 2019\, she published a critical edition of Gerszon Taffet’s Destruction of Żółkiew Jews. Her most recent book\, Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust\, was published in 2021 with Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. She is co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. She is currently working on a book about the so-called cadaver affair at European universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust. \nChen Shelach \nChen Shelach Director\, Editor\, Script writer\nGraduate of the School of Television Professions – GivatHaviva Professional Filmography 2017 – One of the writers and content editor of “Cover Story” – the story of Israeli “Mossad” 2016 – Scriptwriter and director of “Pig in the Holy Land” – the story of the pork industry in Israel \n2014 – Scriptwriter and director (in cooperation with DokiDror) of “My Enemy\, My Partner” – the story of an Israeli and a Palestinian who build a business together \n2012 – Scriptwriter\, director and shooting of “Photo-Novella” – a private journey to the cycle of secrets and silences in the family \n2008 – Scriptwriter and director of “When Jabel Fell” – the story of combat soldiers in an elite unit who deal with the failure of a military campaign \nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship Six Million! with Documentary Filmmaker David Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies\nWednesday\, June 8\, 2022\n3PM ET\nZoom | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \nREGISTER \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation75\, is excited to offer the opportunity to engage in our unique series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust Studies\nThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah.\nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship.\nThe 9th and Final Session in this series will feature: Haunted Laughter: Jonathan Friedman in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum on the use of comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and the Holocaust.\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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. \nProfessor Jonathan Friedman \nJonathan Friedman is currently Professor of History and the Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University in West Chester\, Pennsylvania. He has been at West Chester since 2002. Before that\, he worked as a historian at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. He has edited five books and authored five as well\, including\, most recently\, Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and The Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books\, 2022).  \nPrevious Sessions in this Series:\nOctober 13\, 2021 3PM ET: Women and the Holocaust with Dr. Carol Rittner RSM Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita\nNovember 10\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Six Million!? with Documentary Film Maker: David Fisher\nDecember 8\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago\, Not Far Away.\nJanuary 12\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Wendy Lower: Using Photographs as Evidence\nFebruary 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Antisemitism and Book Banning in 2022?\nMarch 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Professor Larry Langer; the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in the field of literature and testimony\nApril 13\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Jonathan Petropoulos\, Ph.D.\, the world’s leading scholar on Nazi stolen art\nMay 11\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Mark Weizmann\, speaking on Holocaust denial\, minimization\, trivialization\, and distortion\nThank you to our partner: \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/confronting-the-complexity-of-holocaust-scholarship-six-million-with-documentary-filmmaker-david-fisher/
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SUMMARY:Hollywood Composers Musicians in Exile with Inbal Megiddo\, Cello and Jian Liu\, Piano
DESCRIPTION:Hollywood Composers: Musicians in Exile with Inbal Megiddo\, Cello and Jian Liu\, Piano\nTuesday\, November 9\, 2021\n4:00pm-5:30pm ET \nREGISTER \nA unique evening showcasing the concert music and film scores of the Golden Age of Cinema\, composed by leading Jewish European composers who fled the Holocaust and settled in Hollywood. Composers such as Erich Korngold\, Ernst Toch\, and Franz Waxman\, provide a glimpse into the immigrant’s journey to and experience in America. From resilience to reinvention in Hollywood\, these composers wrote music for some of the greatest blockbusters and transformed America’s musical landscape.\nThe concert will be a multimedia experience\, with live performance (via zoom) of concert music\, preceded by clips of the films that showcase the scores. \nInbal is passionate about the genre of suppressed composers. She searches for the music of composers who were persecuted and silenced\, and through performances\, give them voice and recognition. \nPrior to each live performance\, a selection or sample of a film featuring the score will be presented for each composer. Inbal will provide commentary on the connection between the film scores and concert music and brief discussion of the history and events these composers faced. There will be time for a Q&A session with the audience at the end of the program. \nErich Wolfgang Korngold (Austria\, 1897 – 1957) Cello Concerto\, Op. 37\nMiklós Rózsa (Hungary\, 1907 – 1995) Love Theme from El Cid\nJoseph Achron (Lithuania\, 1886-1943) Hebrew Melody\nMario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Italy\, 1895 – 1968) Figaro\, from Barber of Seville by Rossini\nGeorge Gershwin (USA\, 1898 – 1937) Tribute to Blue Note Records\, New York Blue Note Record Label\, co-founded by Jewish refugees Alfred Lion & Francis Wolff (1939) Summertime\nCellist Inbal Megiddo\nCellist Inbal Megiddo has performed as soloist with many of the great orchestras and in major concert halls around the world\, including recitals in the Kennedy Center\, Carnegie Hall\, with the Berlin Symphony at the Philharmonie and a recital at the Staatsoper. At her New York debut at the Lincoln Center her playing was hailed by the press as having “magical expression and technical expertise.” Recent releases include a recording of the complete Bach Cello Suites and Debussy’s Sonatas and Trio\, which were nominated for Best Classical Album in the NZ Music Awards. She gave the NZ premieres of the Weinberg\, Villa Lobos\, and Barber Cello Concertos\, with her playing described as “Superb!…Virtuosic\, brilliant and powerful”. Other recent highlights include performances with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland\, Ukraine Philharmonic\, Lithuanian Philharmonic\, collaborations with preeminent conductors including Daniel Barenboim\, Shlomo Mintz\, and Lior Shambadal\, and concert tours throughout Europe\, North America\, and Asia. \nMs. Megiddo is Associate Professor in Cello at the New Zealand School of Music\, and has held faculty positions at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Yale University. She has been guest artist at festivals such as the International Cello Congress\, Beijing International Chamber Music Festival and Melbourne Cello Festival. She has given masterclasses at institutions around the world\, including many of the major music schools in North America\, Europe\, Israel\, and Australasia. Ms. Megiddo recently completed a doctoral thesis on the teaching methods of the legendary Aldo Parisot\, and is founder and director of the Cellophonia International Festival in Wellington. \nDr. Jian Liu\nBorn in China and educated in China and the USA\, Dr. Jian Liu is an internationally celebrated concert pianist\, chamber musician\, and educator\, and has performed and taught throughout Europe\, Asia\, and North America. His artistry has taken him to some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls\, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. He has also recorded many CDs\, one of which\, Debussy Sonatas and Piano Trio\, has been nominated as Best Classical Artist in the New Zealand Music Awards. His performances have been broadcast by various TV and radio stations including KPHO public radio (USA)\, CCTV (China)\, Suisse Romande Radio (Switzerland)\, Krakow Radio (Poland)\, Kan Radio (Israel) and Radio New Zealand. Dr. Liu is currently the Programme Director of Classical Performance and Head of Piano Studies at New Zealand School of Music. Dr. Liu holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale School of Music\, where he was a student and assistant of Professor Claude Frank. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/hollywood-composers-musicians-in-exile-with-inbal-megiddo-cello-and-jian-liu-piano/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Israel Tours with Rabbi Jonty Blackman
DESCRIPTION:Until you can travel again in person\, join Rabbi Jonty Blackman on a virtual trip to Israel. Through the end of the year\, Jonty will give one lecture per month for CWB’s community of learners.\nThis program is in partnership with The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Rodef Shalom Congregation  \nRegistrants only need to RSVP once to be registered for the entire series. \nPAST TOURS\nJuly 12: Pathway to Destruction – The twists and turns that lead to the Roman Destruction of Jerusalem 2 millennia ago. \nAugust 9: Tel Aviv – The city that doesn’t sleep – A look at the first Hebrew City and\, in many ways\, the city that is the pumping heart of the modern day State of Israel. \nSep 13: Start Up Nation – A journey following Israel’s extraordinary tale from socialist society to one of the leading nations in the technological revolution. \nOct 18: A nation marches on its stomach! – An exploration of Israel’s culinary journey from the falafel and daily rationing to the explosive culinary scene that is Israel today. \nNovember 8: Treasures of the Mediterranean – A tour following some of the wonders on the coast of Israel. \nDecember 13: Gems of the Holy Land – A peek into some of the lesser known\, but none-the-less extraordinary stories and places that dot the Land of Israel. \nJonty Blackman \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.
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SUMMARY:"What Will Become of Us" Film and Post Screening Discussion
DESCRIPTION:“What Will Become of Us” Film and Post Screening Discussion with filmmaker Stephanie Ayanian\, Rev. Fr. Hratch Sargsyan\, and Anthony Barsamian in conversation with Dr. Mark Cole \nSunday\, November 7\, 2021\n3:00-4:30pm\nZoom | Registration ends 30 minutes before the start of the program \nRegister to receive a link for the film (sent out by email starting on Wednesday\, November 3) \nREGISTER \nClassrooms Without Borders and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage are excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “What Will Become of Us” and engage in a post-film discussion with the documentary filmmaker Stephanie Ayanian\, Rev. Fr. Hratch Sargsyan\, and Anthony Barsamian in conversation with Dr. Mark Cole.  \nThis is the first program in this special film series co-sponsored by \n A 60-Minute Feature Documentary about Armenians in America \n100 years ago\, Armenians were nearly annihilated by Genocide. Today\, often unrecognized\, it remains defining – but the long shadow of the Genocide creates a burden for young Armenian Americans that discourages them from taking up their culture. What Will Become of Us follows six Armenian Americans – famous and otherwise – as they navigate the 100th anniversary of the Genocide\, forging identities for the next 100 years. How can Armenian Americans honor their past\, while unshackling themselves from its trauma? \nIn 1915\, 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a genocide by the Ottoman Turks. One of the world’s ancient civilizations was nearly destroyed. Today\, many countries\, including Turkey and the United States\, do not recognize the Genocide because it is geopolitically inconvenient. Without recognition\, the long shadow of genocide persists. \nFor Armenian Americans\, the ‘long shadow’ of genocide is paralyzing. In an effort to preserve what was saved\, successive generations hold-fast to a pre-genocide conception of culture\, an idea frozen in time. The innovation needed to create a flourishing future is stymied by culturally-imposed litmus tests. The future of Armenian-American culture is in danger. \nWhat Will Become of Us moves past stayed notions of what it means to be a ‘good Armenian.’ In three dramatic acts\, the characters in What Will Become of Us travel through the American landscape while grappling with their identities and the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Their interwoven stories build on one-another to create a cohesive narrative where the past and future are in constant tension.  \nThis is a story relatable to all immigrant communities who have faced past horrors. How can a culture pay respect to its past without being limited by it? How can a culture give individuals the freedom to define their own identities and collectively forge a hopeful future? This is not a film about genocide\, but about how to thrive despite it. \nStephanie Ayanian\nStephanie Ayanian is a film producer and director. Her documentary\, What Will Become of Us\, focuses on a small ethnic group grappling with how to maintain their cultural identities in the melting pot of America 100 years after genocide. She is currently in post production on her next film\, No Difference Between Us\, that shares the story of Father Armenag\, an Armenian-Catholic priest in Los Angeles who works tirelessly to aid Christian and Muslim refugees escaping the atrocities in Syria to secure their lives in America.  \nShe produced the independent feature Kinderwald\, an Official Selection of Munich International\, Seattle International\, Napa Valley\, and Slamdance film festivals. Ayanian co-owns storyshop\, an independent production house for creative media. Before starting storyshop\, Ayanian worked as a Senior Producer/Director for Penn State Public Broadcasting where she was the producer and co-director of Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure\, for which she received the American Association of Engineering Societies Award for Journalism. The feature documentary was shown on 717 public television stations with a total of 1800 broadcasts in a 12-month period. She also produced and co-directed the Geospatial Revolution Project\, which was released episodically on the web and has screened worldwide. She holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and a BA in Film and Video from the Pennsylvania State University. \nShe is a third-generation Armenian American. Her grandparents survived the Armenian Genocide of 1915 as children\, grew up in the Armenian ghettos of Marseille\, France\, and came to reestablish their community in Fresno\, California. Her bedtime stories were often of her grandmother’s childhood—the Genocide\, the kidnapping of her family members\, the reuniting\, and the refugee camps.  \nRev. Fr. Hratch Sargsyan\nThe Rev. Fr. Hratch Sargsyan was born in Armavir\, Armenia\, one of two sons of Simon and Zmroukhd Sargsyan. He was christened Hovhannes\, and received his early education in local Armenian schools. \nIn 2000\, he felt the calling to become a priest and was admitted to the Vaskenian Theological Seminary in Sevan\, where he studied for four years and received a bachelor’s degree in theology. Meanwhile he served as the canon sacrist of Soorp Arakelotz Church adjacent to the seminary\, where he was responsible for the care and maintenance of the church and for assisting with services. In 2002\, the young Hovhannes was ordained to the rank of acolyte at Holy Etchmiadzin by Archbishop Nerses Bozabalian of blessed memory. \nFollowing the completion of the bachelor’s program at the Vaskenian Theological Seminary\, Fr. Hratch continued his studies at the Gevorgyan Seminary of Holy Etchmiadzin. During this period\, he also worked on preparing radio programs on religious subjects for transmission throughout Armenia. On February 23\, 2006\, on the Feast of Sts. Vartanantz\, Archbishop Bozabalian ordained the young acolyte to the diaconate. He graduated from the Gevorgyan Seminary that same year with a master’s degree in theology. \nAt Holy Etchmiadzin\, Fr. Hratch was appointed to the position of General Secretary in the Interchurch/Ecumenical Department\, where his duties included correspondence and public relations. Parallel to assuming the new position\, he took English language courses at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan\, and served as a deacon at Yerevan’s Holy Trinity Church. \nOn June 24\, 2007\, Hovhannes Sargsyan was ordained to the holy priesthood by Archbishop Vicken Aykazian at Holy Etchmiadzin\, and given the priestly name “Hratch.” The newly ordained priest began serving at St. Hovhannes Church in Sisyan in southern Armenia. Later he returned to Yerevan to serve as assistant pastor at Holy Trinity Church for one year. \nIn 2008\, His Holiness Karekin II\, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians\, assigned Fr. Hratch to serve as an intern in the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America. At the direction of Archbishop Khajag Barsamian\, Primate of the Eastern Diocese\, Fr. Hratch became the intern priest at St. John Armenian Church of Southfield\, MI. He served the parish for almost two years under the guidance of its pastor\, the Rev. Fr. Garabed Kochakian. During this time\, Fr. Hratch continued to study English and successfully completed a five-month program in Clinical Pastoral Education at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit\, MI. He also made pastoral visits to other parishes in the Eastern Diocese. \nUpon the completion of his internship\, Fr. Hratch became the pastor of St. Sahag Armenian Church in Minneapolis-St. Paul\, MN. During the summer of 2011\, he was also the assistant director of the Diocesan Summer Camp program. On September 1\, 2011\, Fr. Hratch became the pastor of St. Gregory of Narek Armenian Church of Richmond Heights\, OH. \nFr. Hratch is married to Yn. Naira Azatyan. They are the proud parents of two daughters\, Tatev and Mane. \nAnthony Barsamian\nAnthony Barsamian is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and Suffolk University School of Law in Boston\, Massachusetts.  Anthony is Managing Partner for over 20 years of Hutchings Barsamian Mandelcorn\, LLP.\, an 8 attorney firm concentrating on Business and Commercial Transactions\, Estate and Tax\, and Family Succession Planning located in Wellesley Hills\, Massachusetts. \nAnthony has been a Board Member of the Armenian Assembly of America since 2002 and served as Vice Chair from 2002-2004\, Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2004-2006 and is currently co-chair of the Board of Trustees beginning in 2015 to the present. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Armenia Tree Project since 2006\, a reforestation and rural development project which has planted and monitored over 6.5 million trees in Armenia. \nAnthony has recently completed a three-year term as the first Armenian American President of the Massachusetts Council of Churches\, the oldest Christian ecumenical organization in the US\, founded in 1903. He also has represented the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church as a Delegate on the Board of the National Council of Churches for 12 years and served two years as the chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee. \nAnthony also serves on the Political Science Advisory Board for the Social and Behavioral Science Department of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Anthony began traveling regularly to Armenia in 1987. \nHe is a member of the executive board of World Link for Law\, a network of International Law Firms located in 70 countries. He sits on various for-profit and non-profit boards and organization and frequently speaks and regularly lectures on Estate and Tax\, and to various groups on Estate and Family Succession Planning and non-profit advocacy organization throughout the United States and Canada. \n Dr. Mark Cole- moderator\nDr. Cole began teaching in the History Department at Cleveland State University in Fall 2014. As of Summer 2021 he is also the Executive Director of the Ohio Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education. Dr. Cole specializes in modern Europe and Germany\, specifically the history of Nazism and the Holocaust\, Jewish Studies\, as well as the histories of consumption and food more generally.  He has presented his research across the United States as well as in Germany and Israel. He has been a Fellow of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem\, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.\, and the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University.  When not changing the world one student mind at a time\, he enjoys working with his hands\, cooking\, traveling\, and playing pocket billiards.  He has one wife\, three daughters\, and a dog. \nThank you to our partner:
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SUMMARY:Session #2 Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory.\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur May Event in this Series: ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’. will feature Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates.\nTali Nates \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many 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) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nHannah Lessing \nHannah Lessing has been Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism since 1995. She has also headed the General Settlement Fund since 2001 and the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria since 2010 – three Funds carrying out their work in remembrance of the victims. \nHannah Lessing is Co-Head of the Austrian delegation to the “International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance” (IHRA). Since March 2011\, she has been Austria’s representative on the International Committee of the Auschwitz Foundation and Member of the Board of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. \nIn 2001\, as a member of the Austrian delegation headed by Ambassador Sucharipa\, Hannah Lessing participated in the negotiations on compensation issues conducted by Under-Secretary of State Stuart Eizenstat\, which led to the signature of the Joint Statement in Washington in 2001. Following this Agreement\, the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism was established in 2001 in order to achieve a comprehensive resolution to open questions of compensation for victims of National Socialism. \nEstablished in order to express the moral responsibility of the Republic of Austria towards victims of National Socialism\, the National Fund carries out a range of activities related to matters of restitution and compensation and the conveyance of historical awareness. \nHannah Lessing has lectured extensively on the work of the three Funds\, as well as in connection with national and international commemoration activities regarding the Holocaust. \nDr. Albert Lichtblau \nDr. Albert Lichtblau was Professor of History at the University of Salzburg\, Austria\, where he is chair and vice-chair of the Centre for Jewish Cultural History. His areas of research include contemporary history\, holocaust\, genocide and migration studies\, but also oral history and audio-visual history. Currently\, he was working on various projects like the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum or the Austrian Heritage Collection. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: Session #1 ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 at 1pm ET/19h00 SAST “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha\nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec).\nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\,\nUpcoming Events:\nJoin us in September and October for our 2 final sessions.\nDetails coming soon!\nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Explore JCC Prague
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic\, invites you to join us online for a talk with Pavlína Šulcová\, director of the JCC Prague on October 21\, 2021\, at 4:30 pm EDT. Learn how Pavlina is connecting the Jewish community through new avenues. \nPavlína Šulcová \nPavlína was appointed for the job to open a modern Jewish community center nestled in Prague. Then the pandemic hit\, and she decided that rather than put her plans on hold\, she would open the first virtual Jewish Community Center (JCC). The virtual Prague JCC features a popular podcast on Judaism in Czech called J-Cast\, comics Haggadah and fun desk game (not only) for kids\, animated videos about Jewish holidays\, video recipes for making delicious Jewish cuisine at home\, and looks for new ways to reach the Jewish community and beyond. She also hopes to be able to meet in person as well\, creating a lively community center of Jewish life without borders. Her plans includes an in-person Jewish cultural center and cafe. Delve into the JCC Prague and see the exciting ways Pavlína is bringing Jewish culture and traditions to the 21st century. \nPavlína Šulcová is the director of JCC Prague. In April 2018\, she returned to Prague\, and\, as the executive director of PQ 2019\, she was responsible for the implementation of the 14th Prague Quadrennial of Performance and Space Design (PQ 2019). Between 2013–2018\, she served as deputy director of the Czech Center Tel Aviv. From 2008 to 2015\, she worked at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tel Aviv as the deputy commercial counselor. \nShe initiated/produced several independent Czech-Israeli art projects\, such as residential projects of Israeli artists (Dede\, Nitzan Mintz\, Geffen Refaeli\, Klone\, Flora) in Petrohradská kolektiv (2016-2017)\, two large-scale paintings by artists Dede and Nitzan Mintz at the building of the Argo Publishing House and the Ponec Theater and the exhibition of Israeli photographer Felix Lupa (2014). She also curated the group exhibition Israeli Street Moments (2018) at the Leica Gallery in Prague. She was involved in the production of the Post Bellum project in Israel (2015\, 2016\, 2017)\, Czech TV series The Graceful Legacy – Israel (2012) and the cultural events Days of Prague in Jerusalem (2012) and the Prague Tel Aviv Urban Party (2011).   \nIn regards to her studies\, she graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities\, Charles University in Prague\, majoring in political science and humanities. She wrote a bachelor’s thesis on the Israeli electoral reform of 1992\, and diploma thesis on the complexity of Israeli society. During her studies\, she received a scholarship and spent one year at the University of Haifa. In 2008\, she made an Aliya and lived in Tel Aviv for ten years. She pursued her studies in Photography and Graphic Design in Israel. She created the documentary series The Wingmen: A story of Czechoslovak pilots and air-force technicians in the service of Israel (2015). Her author’s projects include TLV24\, Tell Me What You Eat\, Israel Geometric\, Tel Aviv Street Life\, Be Our Guest\, and the blog FromTelAviv.com.  \nABOUT THE JCC PRAGUE    \nwww.jccprague.com \nJCC Prague aims to be a central hub for exploring and interpreting the richness\, variety and implications of adopting or developing a contemporary Jewish Identity through the mediums of culture\, learning and the arts. JCC offers freely accessible\, open to all\, culturally inspiring place. It will be a place for learning\, creativity and innovation. It will be a center of the Jewish life in Prague. JCC Prague aspires to be a favorite spot for Praguers as well as visitors of Prague. It will become an established part of the Jewish community\, yet it will remain an open place for all.           \nCZECH EMBASSY SERIES: Through this series\, the Embassy of the Czech Republic brings a broad selection of Czech artists\, intellectuals and professionals connected to Jewish life\, history\, art and culture to engage\, educate and inspire audiences in the United States and beyond. The series incorporates book talks\, film screenings\, lectures\, musical performances\, exhibitions\, and more.\nThank you to our partner:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Germany's Election 2021: Political Wrap Up
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: Due to the internet privacy and data security protocols of Germany\, this program WILL NOT be recorded.On Sunday September 26 Germans will cast their ballot and the Parliament will usher in a new Chancellor\, as Angela Merkel is not running for reelection following 16 years in the country’s top job.\nIn addition\, given the country’s electoral system\, it seems certain that the new government will be comprised of a coalition of at least two\, if not three\, parties.\nBoth of these factors will have major implications for Germany’s future policies\, in particular in the fields of foreign and climate change policy. \nOn October 20\, Classrooms Without Borders in partnership with Germany Close Up will present a political wrap up of the 2021 election and discuss these issues\, and more\nWe will be joined by Cerstin Gammelin\, Deputy Editor for Economic Policy in the Parliamentary Office Berlin and Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm\, Senior Fellow at IParl (Institut für Parlamentarismusforschung)\, moderated by Dr. Kaleen Gallagher. They will discuss first hand insights into the results and what can be expected from the new government.\nCerstin Gammelin\, Deputy Editor for Economic Policy in the Parliamentary Office Berlin of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.\nCerstin Gammelin completed her degree course in material-technology at the Technical University in Chemnitz (Saxony). After the fall of the Berlin Wall she worked as an author and a journalist for the publishing house “Deutscher Fachverlag”\, the fold newspaper “Energie & Management”\, the “Spiegel” and “Financial Times Deutschland”. From 2004 to 2007 she worked as a correspondent for the biggest German weekly “Die Zeit”. From 2008 to 2015 she was European correspondent of “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in Brussels. Since 2015 she leads the economic department of the parliament office in Berlin. \nProf. Dr. Roland Sturm\, Senior Fellow at IParl (Institut für Parlamentarismusforschung)\, holds the chair of German and Comparative Politics\, European Studies and Political Economy at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1996. He is co-editor of the journals „Gesellschaft-Wirtschaft-Politik“ and „Zeitschrift für Politik“. His scientific work deals with policy research\, the political system of the United Kingdom and federalism and multi-level democracy within the European Union. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Washington (Seattle)\, the Peking University and the University Pompeu Fabre (Barcelona). \nDr. Kaleen Gallagher grew up in the United States. She studied German and French at the University of Cambridge and completed a doctorate in German literature. She has lived in Germany since 2012 and works in the field of political education and as a freelance translator. \nThis midday event is geared toward both Educators and Students.  There will be ample time for Q & A. \nIn Partnership with Germany Close Up:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour of Israel - A Nation Marches on Its Stomach
DESCRIPTION:Until you can travel again in person\, join Rabbi Jonty Blackman on a virtual trip to Israel. Through the end of the year\, Jonty will give one lecture per month for CWB’s community of learners.\nThis program is in partnership with The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Rodef Shalom Congregation  \nRegistrants only need to RSVP once to be registered for the entire series. \nPAST TOURS\nJuly 12: Pathway to Destruction – The twists and turns that lead to the Roman Destruction of Jerusalem 2 millennia ago. \nAugust 9: Tel Aviv – The city that doesn’t sleep – A look at the first Hebrew City and\, in many ways\, the city that is the pumping heart of the modern day State of Israel. \nSep 13: Start Up Nation – A journey following Israel’s extraordinary tale from socialist society to one of the leading nations in the technological revolution. \nOct 18: A nation marches on its stomach! – An exploration of Israel’s culinary journey from the falafel and daily rationing to the explosive culinary scene that is Israel today. \nNovember 8: Treasures of the Mediterranean – A tour following some of the wonders on the coast of Israel. \nDecember 13: Gems of the Holy Land – A peek into some of the lesser known\, but none-the-less extraordinary stories and places that dot the Land of Israel. \nJonty Blackman \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/virtual-tour-of-israel-a-nation-marches-on-its-stomach-2/
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SUMMARY:"The road to Babi Yar" Post-Film Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, and Liberation75 is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “the road to Babi Yar” and engage in a post-film discussion with the documentary Film Maker Boris Maftsir in conversation with CWB Scholar\, Avi Ben-Hur.\n“The Road to Babi Yar” is the newest film of the documentary project by Boris Maftsir\, about the Shoah of the Jews of the Soviet Union. With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22\, 1941\, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began\, characterized by the massacres of Jews\, exemplified in the Ukraine. \n“The road to Babi Yar” shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine\, during which the Nazis\, with the participation of local residents\, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence\, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites\, symbolized by Babi Yar. \nConversations with historians\, local residents – eyewitnesses to those events and Jewish survivors of the Shoah\, presented in the film\, allow us to recreate a comprehensive and painful picture of the fate of the Jews of Ukraine during the Shoah. \nBoris Maftsir\nBoris Maftsir was born in Riga\, Latvia\, in the then-Soviet Union.  In 1970 he was arrested by the KGB and sentenced to one year in prison on charges of Zionist activity. In 1971\, he emigrated to Israel\, where he enrolled as a student with the newly-established Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. He graduated with the department’s first graduating class. \nMaftsir started his career as a producer with the Israeli Film Service\, where he grew to become the Service Manager. In 2009-2017\, he founded and chaired the documentary film department at the Haifa WIZO Academic Center. Throughout his distinguished career\, he has produced over 200 documentaries and directed over 30 films.  \nIn 1998-1999\, Maftsir became Director of the Department of Culture and Art at the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture. In 1999-2001\, he was appointed Director General of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption. In 2003-2005\, he served as Head of Delegation of the Jewish Agency in Russia\, Belarus and the Baltic States. \nIn 2006\, Maftsir was appointed Director of Yad Vashem’s Names Project\, which aimed to recover the names of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust in the USSR. This project became life-altering for him. After completing his service at Yad Vashem in 2012\, he dedicate his time fully to his multipart documentary project “Searching for the Unknown Holocaust.” Traveling all across the former Soviet countries of Ukraine\, Russia\, Belarus\, Moldova\, and the Baltics\, Maftsir is documenting events that have until now not fully become part of the collection memory of the Holocaust.  \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar 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. \nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-road-to-babi-yar-post-film-discussion/
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SUMMARY:Women in the Holocaust with Dr. Carol Rittner and Dr. Michael Berenbaum
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Liberation75\, is excited to offer the opportunity to engage in our unique series: Confronting the Complexity of Holocaust Scholarship: Reflections on the Past\, Present\, and Future of Holocaust StudiesThe rise of anti-Semitism across the globe alongside the current data that points to a serious void in understanding about the Holocaust in the 21st century shines a light on a critical need to continue the task of Holocaust Scholars to honor the memory of the Shoah.\nIn each of our 9 part series we will meet Top Scholars in the field and focus on their research and scholarship.\nThe 9th and Final Session in this series will feature: Haunted Laughter: Jonathan Friedman in conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum on the use of comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and the Holocaust.\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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. \nProfessor Jonathan Friedman \nJonathan Friedman is currently Professor of History and the Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University in West Chester\, Pennsylvania. He has been at West Chester since 2002. Before that\, he worked as a historian at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles. He has edited five books and authored five as well\, including\, most recently\, Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler\, The Third Reich\, and The Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television (Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books\, 2022).  \nPrevious Sessions in this Series:\nOctober 13\, 2021 3PM ET: Women and the Holocaust with Dr. Carol Rittner RSM Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita\nNovember 10\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Six Million!? with Documentary Film Maker: David Fisher\nDecember 8\, 2021 at 3pm ET: Auschwitz: Not Long Ago\, Not Far Away.\nJanuary 12\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Wendy Lower: Using Photographs as Evidence\nFebruary 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Antisemitism and Book Banning in 2022?\nMarch 9\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Professor Larry Langer; the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in the field of literature and testimony\nApril 13\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Jonathan Petropoulos\, Ph.D.\, the world’s leading scholar on Nazi stolen art\nMay 11\, 2022 at 3pm ET: Mark Weizmann\, speaking on Holocaust denial\, minimization\, trivialization\, and distortion\nThank you to our partner: \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/women-in-the-holocaust-with-dr-carol-rittner-and-dr-michael-berenbaum/
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SUMMARY:Israel Update with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an update and overview about the current situation in Israel.You are invited to participate in an update on Israel offered once per month. Given the events in the past few months\, from the recent conflict with Gaza to the internal political upheaval in Israel there is a necessity to get an educated view from the “inside”. We are offering an opportunity to hear from our in-house scholar – Avi Ben-Hur – as he helps us navigate and understand what is happening with the cease-fire with Hamas and the potential change of leadership of the Israeli government. \nConcluding Session for this Series:\nNovember 16\, 2021 Israel and Climate Change\, Jewish worship at the Western Wall\, & Archaeology Update\nPrevious sessions:\nOctober 12\, 2021 – Covid Update\, The Temple Mount\, The Other Epidemic: Violence & Crime in Arab society\, and New Archeological Finds\nSeptember 14\, 2021 – Jail Break\, Marriage Survey\, and Archaeological Findings\nAugust 17\, 2021: Israel-Poland Relations\, Resurgence of Covid – the Delta Variant\, Climate Change & Jerusalem Wildfires\, and the Olympians\nJuly 6\, 2021: Update on the new government\, Covid-19 in Israel and more.\nJune 22\, 2021: The 36th Government of Israel- June 2021\nJune 8 & May 19: How did this happen and where is it going?\nThe present malaise confounding Israel caught everyone by surprise. How did things slide out of control so quickly? What are the major challenges facing Israel at this very moment? How is the conflict impacting the political impasse since the recent March elections? What does the future hold for the relations between Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel?\nOur scholar in residence will be speaking about all of the above issues and more this coming Wednesday… \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar 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.
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SUMMARY:Arab-Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:Arab-Israeli Conflict Course with CWB In House Scholar Avi Ben HurThe Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels:\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives:\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession IX: Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\nIn December 1987\, the Palestinians re-entered the Israeli consciousness with the outbreak of massive civil disobedience that spread from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in the so-called “Intifada.” Although this uprising petered out by 1991\, by September 1993 Israeli and PLO representatives began a political process in an attempt to come to a final peace agreement between the sides. These talks and accords continued until the summer of 2000 when they collapsed in Camp David. Within weeks a second Intifada broke out which was characterized by Palestinian bombing attacks on the Israeli civilian population. Israel responded with force and the construction of a barrier to thwart the bombers. In 2005 Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip. This resulted in the armed takeover of the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and 4 subsequent conflicts with Israel in 2008/9\, 2012\, 2014 and 2021. Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not existed for the past 6 years. \nSubjects to be covered: The 1st Intifada\, the Oslo Process\, 2nd Intifada\, Gaza redeployment\, 2005-2021 \nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nFinal SESSION in this series: \nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar 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. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact ellen@classroomswithoutborders.org \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-9/
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SUMMARY:The Sonderkommando Uprising with Dr. Gideon Greif
DESCRIPTION:The stories of the heroism\, rebellion\, resistance and revolt of the Jews in the Holocaust are not marginal and are not limited at all. Contrary to popular belief for many years\, the Jews took up arms near them and organized uprisings against the Germans and their aides wherever circumstances allowed.(Image: Anniversary of the Sonderkommando revolt in Auschwitz Brama główna i wartownia obozu Auschwitz II – zdjęcie archiwalne\, czarno-białe) \nDuring the Holocaust\, three armed uprisings of Jews in the extermination camps were recorded\, a very impressive statistic: \nin half of the extermination camps\, the Jewish prisoners performed the miracle of the revolt against their German tormentors.\nThis is in addition to the hundreds of revolts of Jews in the ghettos\, revolts for the most part of which we have only limited knowledge.\nThe first revolt in the extermination camps took place in the Treblinka extermination camp on August 2\, 1943\, the second – in the Sobibor extermination camp on October 14\, 1943 and the third and final – in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp\, on October 7\, 1944\, 77 years ago.\nThis revolt\, which was planned and carried out by the Sonderkommando men – a group of Jewish prisoners forcibly employed in the industrial-factory murder facilities of the Auschwitz camp – was different from its predecessors. The two uprisings that preceded it\, in Treblinka and Sobibor\, were primarily intended to bring an end to the mass murder of Jews\, to sabotage the murder facilities and to bring the mass murder of Jews to the attention of the world. \nAt the time these revolts took place\, the “Final Solution” process was at its peak. When the revolt broke out in Auschwitz\, this factor was no longer relevant: most European Jews were no longer alive\, so the rescue motif was not the main cause of the revolt. Among the factors that motivated the revolt were these points: Revenge on the Germans for their monstrous crimes in Auschwitz\, the desire of the Sonderkommando men to save themselves so they could report to the world what they saw in Auschwitz\, a desire to be engraved on the pages of history that the Jews in Auschwitz were not only victims of cruel\, vicious and heinous murder but were anxious to fight with weapons in hand against their persecutors\, and the primary and immediate factor was the desire to sabotage the planned mass murder against the masses of Hungarian Jews\, an action for which the Sonderkommando were well aware. \nProf. Gideon Greif \nProf. Gideon Greif is an Israeli historian\, educator and pedagogue. He is Chief Historian and Researcher at the “Shem Olam” Institute for Education\, Documentation and Research on Faith and the Holocaust\, Israel\, Chief Historian and Researcher at the Foundation for Holocaust Education Projects in Miami\, Florida and a senior Researcher and Historian at the Ono Academic College in Israel.  \nProf. Gideon Greif was recently nominated Director of the Center for Hebrew Language\, Culture and Civilization at the Philological Faculty\, the University of Belgrade\, The Republic of Serbia\, and Director of the Center for History\, Culture and Civilization of the Serbian Jews and the Serbian People\, at the Ono Academic College in Israel. \nProf. Gideon Greif is considered one of the world renowned historian-experts on the history of Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. His most famous contribution to the history of Auschwitz is his pioneer\, groundbreaking research “We Wept without Tears”\, on the history of the “Sonderkommando”\, a special Jewish prisoner squad in Auschwitz-Birkenau\, compelled to work at the mass killing installations.  The research\, first published at Yad Vashem\, has become an international best seller. The book has been translated until now into 14 languages. \nThe book “We Wept without Tears” inspired the Hungarian movie “Son of Saul”\, which won an Oscar in 2016. Gideon Greif worked as a historical advisor for the film. \nWith Itamar Levin Greif wrote the book Uprising in Auschwitz”\, which is the first book in the world dedicated exclusively to the Jewish ‘Sonderkommando” uprising in Auschwitz\, on October 7\, 1944. \nProf. Greif published recently the book “Jasenovac – Auschwitz of the Balkans”\, which won the first prize at the Belgrade International Book Fair on November 2018. \nIt is one volume of a Trilogy by Prof. Greif\, dedicated to the crimes of the Croat-Ustasha Regime against the Serbian People and against the Jewish People during World War two. The three Volumes of the Trilogy\, to be published soon\, contain more than 2500 pages. \nProf. Gideon Greif has won five of the highest Official State Decorations by the Republic of Serbia. \nProf. Dr. Gideon Greif is well known for his lecture technique and he speaks on the Holocaust across the world in three languages (Hebrew\, English and German). His lecture program contains more than 30 topics. He especially loves to speak in front of a young audience to share his knowledge on the Holocaust and its consequences to ensure that the Shoah will never be forgotten and stays a warning signal to mankind. \nThank you to our partner:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-sonderkommando-uprising-with-dr-gideon-greif/
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SUMMARY:The Light of Understanding with Peter Gyori
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders in collaboration with The Embassy of the Czech Republic\, invites you to join us online for a talk with musician/composer Peter Gyori and founder of the project Light of Understanding on September 30\, 2021\, at 4:30 pm EDT. Delve into the beauty and connections of his music during this online event.With humor and nostalgia\, musician/composer Peter Gyori tells the story of his life and various projects trying to unite communities from all possible and impossible corners of the earth. He focuses on the current challenges facing European communities and the growing feeling of “discomfort” of being Jewish in Europe. Through his project Light of Understanding\, he brings together artists and audiences of different ethnicities\, religions\, and cultural backgrounds\, for concerts simultaneously recorded in a church and a synagogue. Join us as Peter performs samples of his work and leads us through the intricacies of his life – from growing up in a Communist country\, ignorance of his Jewish origin\, playing piano in the lobby of a Dead Sea hotel and meeting Rabbi Mordechai who changed his life forever. \nPeter Gyori\nPeter Gyori is a composer\, musician\, and vice president of the Federation of Czech Jewish Communities. He founded the project Light of Understanding\, bringing together communities of different faiths and nationalities to perform concerts. Among others\, he is the recipient of an award from the mayor of the European City of Culture for his contribution to tolerance and co-existence. He describes his work as Diplomacy through Art. He actively participated in the work of the WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps\, European Day of Jewish Culture\, European Shoah Legacy Institute. He also serves as executive director of Bejt Praha\, headed the Czech Council for the Victims of Nazism\, to name a few.     \nLight of Understanding is a unique project which creates a platform for the meeting of artists and audience of various ethnic\, religious\, and cultural backgrounds and his music\, which often uses motifs from Jewish prayers. Peter often manages to unite elements which might seem incompatible at first. Not only does he bring together on stage musicians who work in very different genres\, but in the audience\, there are representatives of states that often find it hard to communicate. Next to one another\, one can see\, for instance\, ambassadors and representatives of not only various European countries\, but also Israel\, Morocco\, Turkey\, Afghanistan\, Pakistan\,  United States\, Jordan\, and Iraq\, Japan\, South Africa and others.    \nIn partnership with the Czech Embassy:\nCZECH EMBASSY SERIES: Through this series\, the Embassy of the Czech Republic brings a broad selection of Czech artists\, intellectuals and professionals connected to Jewish life\, history\, art and culture to engage\, educate and inspire audiences in the United States and beyond. The series incorporates book talks\, film screenings\, lectures\, musical performances\, exhibitions\, and more. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-light-of-understanding-with-peter-gyori/
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SUMMARY:Sukkot! Holidays with Jonty and Julie
DESCRIPTION:It is a fun-filled\, fascinating journey into the myriad of ways that the Festival of Sukkot is celebrated in Israel – both today and in previous centuries. In the virtual experience\, we move through various areas of Israel highlighting the different aspects of the Sukkot festival. This is an experience of celebration that begins in the here and now; then takes us back to ancient times; and eventually returns us to the modern day State of Israel as we celebrate our ancient festival in a modern guise. Grab your Lulav and Etrog – or perhaps just take a seat in front of your screen(!) – and join Jonty virtually for the celebration! Virtual Israel Tours Series. This program is in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation.  \nThis lecture will be offered on Zoom. RSVP to receive the link. (Registrants only need to RSVP once to be registered for the entire series.) \nPast Sessions: \nJanuary 28:Tu BiShvat- Treats\, Shoots and Leaves: The unexpected relationship between the Torah and the Tree. \nFebruary 25: Purim-Taking the mask off the Purim Story  \nMarch 21: Passover: Matza\, Moufletta and Ma Nishtana – Looking at Pesach Through a Different Lens. \nApril 28: Lag Ba’Omer: Of Caves\, Carob Trees\, and Kabbala- Unravelling the mystery behind the festival of Lag B’Omer \nMay 10: Yom Yerushalayim as part of our Virtual Israel Tours Series. (follow the link to RSVP) \nMay 12 @ 4 PM Shavuot: Whose Festival is it anyway? \nJonty Blackman \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. \nCantor Julie Newman \nCantor Julie Newman is the founder of Tiferet\, A Jewish Spirituality Project where she leads Jewish Mindfulness meditation and the independent minyan\, Chavurat Shirah. She practices and teaches Jewish contemplative practices such as meditation\, yoga and chant. Julie received cantorial ordination and her Master in Jewish Education from Hebrew College in Boston. Raised in Southern California\, Julie has lived mostly in Pittsburgh since graduating from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business in 1982. She and her husband\, Bill Klingensmith have two adult sons\, Jake and Ben. Julie\, Bill and Ben have been quarantining together this year\, working from their home just north of Pittsburgh. And their adopted greyhound\, Yogi\, makes sure everyone gets a chance to play each day. \nThank you to our partner:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/sukkot-holidays-with-jonty-and-julie/
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums Around the World: Generation to Generation the Evolution of Memorialization
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory.\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur May Event in this Series: ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’. will feature Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates.\nTali Nates \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many 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) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nHannah Lessing \nHannah Lessing has been Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism since 1995. She has also headed the General Settlement Fund since 2001 and the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria since 2010 – three Funds carrying out their work in remembrance of the victims. \nHannah Lessing is Co-Head of the Austrian delegation to the “International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance” (IHRA). Since March 2011\, she has been Austria’s representative on the International Committee of the Auschwitz Foundation and Member of the Board of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. \nIn 2001\, as a member of the Austrian delegation headed by Ambassador Sucharipa\, Hannah Lessing participated in the negotiations on compensation issues conducted by Under-Secretary of State Stuart Eizenstat\, which led to the signature of the Joint Statement in Washington in 2001. Following this Agreement\, the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism was established in 2001 in order to achieve a comprehensive resolution to open questions of compensation for victims of National Socialism. \nEstablished in order to express the moral responsibility of the Republic of Austria towards victims of National Socialism\, the National Fund carries out a range of activities related to matters of restitution and compensation and the conveyance of historical awareness. \nHannah Lessing has lectured extensively on the work of the three Funds\, as well as in connection with national and international commemoration activities regarding the Holocaust. \nDr. Albert Lichtblau \nDr. Albert Lichtblau was Professor of History at the University of Salzburg\, Austria\, where he is chair and vice-chair of the Centre for Jewish Cultural History. His areas of research include contemporary history\, holocaust\, genocide and migration studies\, but also oral history and audio-visual history. Currently\, he was working on various projects like the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum or the Austrian Heritage Collection. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: Session #1 ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 at 1pm ET/19h00 SAST “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha\nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec).\nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\,\nUpcoming Events:\nJoin us in September and October for our 2 final sessions.\nDetails coming soon!\nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Israel Update with Avi Ben-Hur: Prison Break\, Marriage Survey\, Archaelogical Findings
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to participate in an update on Israel offered once per month. Given the events in the past few months\, from the recent conflict with Gaza to the internal political upheaval in Israel there is a necessity to get an educated view from the “inside”. We are offering an opportunity to hear from our in-house scholar – Avi Ben-Hur – as he helps us navigate and understand what is happening with the cease-fire with Hamas and the potential change of leadership of the Israeli government.\nConcluding Session for this Series:\nNovember 16\, 2021 Israel and Climate Change\, Jewish worship at the Western Wall\, & Archaeology Update\nPrevious sessions:\nOctober 12\, 2021 – Covid Update\, The Temple Mount\, The Other Epidemic: Violence & Crime in Arab society\, and New Archeological Finds\nSeptember 14\, 2021 – Jail Break\, Marriage Survey\, and Archaeological Findings\nAugust 17\, 2021: Israel-Poland Relations\, Resurgence of Covid – the Delta Variant\, Climate Change & Jerusalem Wildfires\, and the Olympians\nJuly 6\, 2021: Update on the new government\, Covid-19 in Israel and more.\nJune 22\, 2021: The 36th Government of Israel- June 2021\nJune 8 & May 19: How did this happen and where is it going?\nThe present malaise confounding Israel caught everyone by surprise. How did things slide out of control so quickly? What are the major challenges facing Israel at this very moment? How is the conflict impacting the political impasse since the recent March elections? What does the future hold for the relations between Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel?\nOur scholar in residence will be speaking about all of the above issues and more this coming Wednesday… \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar 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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-update-with-avi-ben-hur-prison-break-marriage-survey-archaelogical-findings/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour of Israel - Start Up Nation
DESCRIPTION:This program is in partnership with The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Rodef Shalom Congregation\nRegistrants only need to RSVP once to be registered for the entire series. \nPAST TOURS\nJuly 12: Pathway to Destruction – The twists and turns that lead to the Roman Destruction of Jerusalem 2 millennia ago. \nAugust 9: Tel Aviv – The city that doesn’t sleep – A look at the first Hebrew City and\, in many ways\, the city that is the pumping heart of the modern day State of Israel. \nSep 13: Start Up Nation – A journey following Israel’s extraordinary tale from socialist society to one of the leading nations in the technological revolution. \nOct 18: A nation marches on its stomach! – An exploration of Israel’s culinary journey from the falafel and daily rationing to the explosive culinary scene that is Israel today. \nNovember 8: Treasures of the Mediterranean – A tour following some of the wonders on the coast of Israel. \nDecember 13: Gems of the Holy Land – A peek into some of the lesser known\, but none-the-less extraordinary stories and places that dot the Land of Israel. \nJonty Blackman \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/virtual-tour-of-israel-start-up-nation/
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SUMMARY:Arab-Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:The Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions:\nThree concentric levels:\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives:\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession IX: Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\nIn December 1987\, the Palestinians re-entered the Israeli consciousness with the outbreak of massive civil disobedience that spread from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in the so-called “Intifada.” Although this uprising petered out by 1991\, by September 1993 Israeli and PLO representatives began a political process in an attempt to come to a final peace agreement between the sides. These talks and accords continued until the summer of 2000 when they collapsed in Camp David. Within weeks a second Intifada broke out which was characterized by Palestinian bombing attacks on the Israeli civilian population. Israel responded with force and the construction of a barrier to thwart the bombers. In 2005 Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip. This resulted in the armed takeover of the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and 4 subsequent conflicts with Israel in 2008/9\, 2012\, 2014 and 2021. Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not existed for the past 6 years. \nSubjects to be covered: The 1st Intifada\, the Oslo Process\, 2nd Intifada\, Gaza redeployment\, 2005-2021 \nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nFinal SESSION in this series: \nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar 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. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact ellen@classroomswithoutborders.org \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Love It Was Not Post Film Discussion with Avi Ben Hur and Maya Sarfaty\, the director/writer\, and Miki Marin daughter of Roza/Shoshana Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation 75 and sponsored by Dr. Daryl Miller is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Love It Was Not” and engage in a post-film discussion with the film director/writer\, Maya Sarfaty\, and Miki Marin daughter of Roza/Shoshana Orenstein in conversation with CWB Scholar\, Avi Ben-Hur.\nA tragic love story between a prisoner and her captor. Flamboyant and full of life\, Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz as a young woman\, and soon finds unlikely solace under the tutelage of Franz Wunsch\, a high-ranking SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking a certain execution if caught\, their forbidden relationship went on until her miraculous liberation. But when a letter arrives from Wunsch’s wife\, thirty years later\, begging Helena to testify on Wunsch’s behalf\, she’s faced with an impossible decision: will she help the man who brutalised so many lives\, but saved hers\, along with some of the people closest to her? \nMaya Sarfaty\nMaya Sarfaty is a director and writer\, known for Love It Was Not (2020)\, The Most Beautiful Woman (2016) and Overtime (2014). Filmmaker Sarfaty painstakingly worked through the archives of Israel’s Yad Vashem and Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation\, looking for recordings of women indexed as workers in the “Kanada” facility at Auschwitz and listening for mentions of Helena and Franz in their personal survival stories. \nMiki Marin\nMiki Marin\, is an actress\, director\, and co-owner of the School of Arts in Ha’Bustan\, Natanya (in Israel)\, which she has run with her husband\, Ze’evik Marin\, for 45 years. Miki and Ze’evik have two daughters\, Or and Stav Marin\, who are both dancers and choreographers. \nThe film\, Love It Was Not (2020)\, directed by Maya Safarty – a former dance and theater student of Miki’s – tells the unbelievable story of Miki’s mother\, Roza/Shoshana Orenstein\, and her sister\, Helena (Zippora) Citron\, during their time in Aushwitz.  \nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar 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. \nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/love-it-was-not-post-film-discussion-with-avi-ben-hur-and-maya-sarfaty-the-director-writer-and-miki-marin-daughter-of-roza-shoshana-orenstein/
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SUMMARY:First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers- A conversation with Loung Ung
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters House\, South Africa Holocaust and Genocide Foundation and CWB partner together for a discussion with Loung Ung\, author of the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father and the critically acclaimed 2017 Netflix Original Movie directed by Angelina Jolie based on her book. \nBorn in 1970 to a middle-class family in Phnom Penh\, Loung Ung was only five years old when the Khmer Rouge Soldiers stormed into her city and her family was forced out of their home in a mass evacuation to the countryside. By 1978\, the Khmer Rouge had killed Ung’s parents and two of her siblings. In 1980\, she and her older brother escaped by boat to Thailand\, where they spent five months in a refugee camp. \nLoung’s first memoir\, the national best-seller First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Harper Perennial)\, details her survival of Cambodia’s killing fields\, one of the bloodiest episodes of the twentieth century. Some two million Cambodians — out of a population of just seven million — died at the hands of the infamous Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime. Of her family of nine\, five survived. Book Link Here \nToday\, she has shared her messages of building resilience\, healing from trauma\, civic service\, activism\, and leadership in the U.S. and across the world. She has spoken at numerous schools and\nuniversities\, including Stanford University\, Boston College\, Yale University\, the Young Presidents’ Organization\, The Million Dollar Round Table Plenary\, Omega Women’s Leadership\, the UN Conference in Nepal. \nThis program is hosted by the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum and is in partnership with:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/first-they-killed-my-father-a-daughter-of-cambodia-remembers-a-conversation-with-loung-ung/
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SUMMARY:Israel Update with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to participate in an update on Israel offered once per month. Given the events in the past few months\, from the recent conflict with Gaza to the internal political upheaval in Israel there is a necessity to get an educated view from the “inside”. We are offering an opportunity to hear from our in-house scholar – Avi Ben-Hur – as he helps us navigate and understand what is happening with the cease-fire with Hamas and the potential change of leadership of the Israeli government.\nConcluding Session for this Series:\nNovember 16\, 2021 Israel and Climate Change\, Jewish worship at the Western Wall\, & Archaeology Update\nPrevious sessions:\nOctober 12\, 2021 – Covid Update\, The Temple Mount\, The Other Epidemic: Violence & Crime in Arab society\, and New Archeological Finds\nSeptember 14\, 2021 – Jail Break\, Marriage Survey\, and Archaeological Findings\nAugust 17\, 2021: Israel-Poland Relations\, Resurgence of Covid – the Delta Variant\, Climate Change & Jerusalem Wildfires\, and the Olympians\nJuly 6\, 2021: Update on the new government\, Covid-19 in Israel and more.\nJune 22\, 2021: The 36th Government of Israel- June 2021\nJune 8 & May 19: How did this happen and where is it going?\nThe present malaise confounding Israel caught everyone by surprise. How did things slide out of control so quickly? What are the major challenges facing Israel at this very moment? How is the conflict impacting the political impasse since the recent March elections? What does the future hold for the relations between Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel?\nOur scholar in residence will be speaking about all of the above issues and more this coming Wednesday… \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar 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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-update-with-avi-ben-hur-5/
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SUMMARY:"Oma and Bella" Post Film Discussion with Alexa Karolinski\, the director and Jeffrey Yoskowitz\, an expert on Eastern European Jewish cuisine and its history: Moderated by Martine Perry\, Germany Close Up Program Coordinator.
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)\, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Oma and Bella” and engage in a post film discussion with Alexa Karolinski\, the director and Jeffrey Yoskowitz\, an expert on Eastern European Jewish cuisine and its history: Moderated by Martine Perry\, Germany Close Up Program Coordinator. \nOma and Bella is an intimate glimpse into the life of two dynamic elderly Jewish women in Berlin. The film follows them as make elaborate dishes recalled from their childhoods\, before the Holocaust. Through the cooking of the sumptuous meals\, they retain a part of their past past while remaining very much engaged in the present. \nAlexa Karolinski\nAlexa Karolinski is a German-Canadian screenwriter\, director\, producer. She has received the Peabody and Adolf Grimme awards for her work. \nBerlin-born Alexa Karolinski is a documentary filmmaker\, who divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. Karolinski premiered her first feature documentary\, Oma & Bella\, at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012. Adopting a non-traditional form of story-telling\, Karolinski is inspired by fashion\, art\, and design in both her personal and commercial projects. \nHer clients include CR Fashion Book\, V Magazine\, VICE Magazine\, Opening Ceremony\, Eckhaus Latta\, NastyGal\, Nowness and Arte TV. She was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2012 by Filmmaker Magazine. In 2019\, Karolinski co-wrote and co-created the Netflix show Unorthodox\, which is based on writer Deborah Feldman’s memoir. \nJeffrey Yoskowitz\nJeffrey Yoskowitz is a Brooklyn-based food entrepreneur\, creative producer\, and thought leader at the intersection of food\, culture and business. He’s also a Jewish food expert and a devotee to all things fermentation. \nAs co-founder of The Gefilteria\, he produces a cutting edge artisanal gefilte fish and culinary events\, presents lectures and cooking demos around the world\, and creates unique content related to Jewish food. Jeffrey co-authored the cookbook The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods\, which was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist and a top book of the year in USA Today\, Epicurious\, Newsday\, etc. The book sparked a national conversation about the legacy of Eastern European Jewish food traditions. \nJeffrey’s writing on food\, culture\, and the environment has been published in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Forward\, among others. He has contributed to both The Mile End Cookbook and The 100 Most Jewish Foods. He created and edited the literary site Pork Memoirs\, which was featured in O magazine and Grub Street. \nHe was named to both the Forbes 30 Under 30 in food & wine and to the Forward 50\, and he served as a guest chef at the esteemed James Beard Foundation multiple times. \nModerated by: Martine Perry\, Germany Close Up Program Coordinator \nMartine Perry\, Germany Close Up Program Coordinator\nMartine Perry has been working as a Germany Close Up program coordinator since February 2012. She holds a Bachelor’s degree with majors in Political Science and German from the University of Melbourne and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Freie Universität\, Berlin.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/oma-and-bella-post-film-discussion-with-alexa-karolinski-the-director-and-jeffrey-yoskowitz-an-expert-on-eastern-european-jewish-cuisine-and-its-history-moderated-by-martine-perry-germany-close/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour of Israel - Tel Aviv
DESCRIPTION:Jonty 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/virtual-tour-of-israel-tel-aviv/
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