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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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-update-with-avi-ben-hur-6/
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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
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-around-the-world-generation-to-generation-the-evolution-of-memorialization/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210912T140000
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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
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur-8/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210817T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210714T160000
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SUMMARY:Summer Book Club with Susan Stein | Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric & Just Us: An American Conversation
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a citizen in conversation about whiteness in America? Join CWB’s Summer Book Club double-header read of Citizen: An American Lyric and Just Us: An American Conversation  by Claudia Rankine. These two books are brilliant and provocative; they are also quite challenging reads for their style\, structure and content. Let’s work together to unpack them! Rankine creates portraits that weave essays\, poems and images to invite us\, one conversation at a time\, to face whiteness in America.  Together we will think about how each of us is a citizen in many different ways and the role personal transformation plays. With CWB Resident Teaching Artist Susan Stein we talk about our selves and our historical selves\, personal and political while looking at Rankine’s unique frame by frame books that ask us to consider Microaggressions and the unseen ways racism lives in our society. Reading Citizen\, part prose poem\, part journal entry\, part photographs\, and Just Us\, an assembly of essays\, poems\, documents\, and images\, we will consider how Rankine’s multi-faceted approach shapes the way each text we encounter can be both window and mirror. Never telling us what to do\, she urges us to begin a discussion. We will use her books to do just that. \nEach session will run approximately 60 minutes. \nReading Schedule:  \nJune 16: Read through Book (Chapter) V\, Citizen\, p. 79 \nJune 23: Complete Citizen \nJune 30: Just US \nJuly 7: Just US \nJuly 14: Final Session \nAbout the books:\nCitizen: An American Lyric \nFinalist for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry\nWinner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\nFinalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism\nWinner of the 2015 PEN Open Book Award\nWinner of the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry \nClaudia Rankine’s bold recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights\, seemingly slips of the tongue\, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom\, at the supermarket\, at home\, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane\, online\, on TV—everywhere\, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak\, perform\, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging\, Rankine argues\, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay\, image\, and poetry\, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary\, often named “post-race” society. \nTo purchase Citizen: Amazon | Private Online Book Seller | or purchase at your local book store!\nJust Us: An American Conversation \nAs everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand\, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine\, without telling us what to do\, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history. \nJust Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together\, even and especially in breaching the silence\, guilt\, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport\, the theater\, the dinner party\, the voting booth—where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments\, beliefs\, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect. \nThis brilliant arrangement of essays\, poems\, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to\, and with\, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond\, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text\, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. \nSometimes wry\, often vulnerable\, and always prescient\, Just Us is Rankine’s most intimate work\, less interested in being right than in being true\, being together. \nTo purchase Just Us | Amazon | Private Online Book Seller | or purchase at your local book store!\nThese titles are eligible for the CWB book reimbursement stipend for classroom educators only. (Up to $100 in a calendar year- participation in the program is required.) \n        Susan Stein is an actor\, playwright and teaching artist in NYC. Stein has spent the past eight years touring her original play\, Etty\, directed by Austin Pendleton\, to theaters\, universities\, schools and prisons throughout the United States and parts of Europe. Stein has been an Artist/Scholar in residence at Cambridge University\, Duquesne\, Boston College\, Vanderbilt and Chapman University. She leads workshops in writing and acting throughout the US and UK. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School and SUNY Purchase and received a Master’s in Writing at Wesleyan University. She was on the faculty of Princeton Day school for 13 years.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/summer-book-club-with-susan-stein-claudia-rankines-citizen-an-american-lyric-just-us-an-american-conversation-5/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Judy Batalion about her book "The Light of Days" with Dr. Josh Andy
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation of Pittsburgh\, is thrilled to offer this opportunity to engage in discussion with author\, Ariana Neumann about her book “The Light of Days.”\nAbout The Book\nWitnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities\, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage\, guile\, and nerves of steel\, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards\, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade\, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers\, bribed them with wine\, whiskey\, and home cooking\, used their Aryan looks to seduce them\, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children. \nYet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown. \nJudy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood\, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between. She has written for the New York Times\, Vogue\, the Washington Post and many other publications. Prior to her writing career\, she was an academic and is fluent in both Yiddish and Hebrew. Born and raised in Montreal\, she now lives in New York with her husband and children.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/author-talk-with-judy-batalion-about-her-book-the-light-of-days-with-dr-josh-andy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210712T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour of Israel - A Nation Marches on Its Stomach
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-a-nation-marches-on-its-stomach/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210708T140000
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SUMMARY:"When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" Film and Post Film Discussion with producer Jochen Laube in conversation with Dr. Natalia Aleksiun
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation\, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” and engage in a post-film discussion with the producer Jochen Laube in conversation with Dr. Natalia Aleksiun.\nThis program is generously sponsored by Ellen Beller in celebration of her and Tsipy Gur’s birthdays.  \nBased on the award-winning novel by Judith Kerr\, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit tells the story of one family’s successful efforts of escaping Germany and living as refugees\, first in Switzerland\, then in Paris\, and finally in London. Told through the eyes of the precocious nine-year-old Anna\, the exquisitely rendered film allows us to observe her carefree nature evolve into a more mature outlook on life. Still\, she and her brother Max look for adventure at every turn\, and her relationship with her father (the famous German theatre critic Alfred Kerr) reveals a special bond. Directed by Academy-Award winning director Caroline Link\, the film\, like the book\, is destined to become a classic. \nJochen Laube\nimage copyright Sommerhaus Filmproduktion / Frank Stolle \nJochen Laube\, alumni of the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg\, completed his studies with the feature film URLAUB VOM LEBEN (2005\, director\, Neele Volmar). In 2006 he founded Sommerhaus Filmproduktion\, with which he produced films such as NOVEMBERKIND (2008\, director Christian Schwochow) and Grimme Prize-winning documentary\, SONBOL. From 2008 to 2015\, Jochen Laube was a producer for teamWorx\, later UFA Fiction\, and headed up its production office in Ludwigsburg. During this time he produced numerous award-winning cinema and television films\, including Dietrich Brüggemann’s STATIONS OF THE CROSS\, awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Berlinale\, as well as the 2012 International Emmy-nominated mini-series\, “BARON MÜNCHAUSEN”. He also produced Burhan Qurbani’s WE ARE YOUNG. WE ARE STRONG. for UFA Fiction\, which was screened at the Rome and Tribeca international film festivals and nominated for a Lola at the 2016 German Film Awards 2016\, Best Film category. Most recently he produced the German-Canadian coproduction COCONUT HERO (2014\, directed by Florian Cossen) for UFA Fiction\, as well as the documentary EAT THAT QUESTION – FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS (2015\, directed by Thorsten Schütte)\, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2015 Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach resumed production activities together under the umbrella of Sommerhaus Filmproduktion GmbH.\nJochen Laube was appointed to the Producer on the Move programme in Cannes in 2013\, and is a member of the German Film Academy – and part of its First Steps jury since 2017 – and teaches production at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. He is also the initiator and curator of the Ludwigsburg film festival “Lichtspielliebe”.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/when-hitler-stole-pink-rabbit-film-and-post-film-discussion-with-producer-jochen-laube-in-conversation-with-dr-natalia-aleksiun/
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SUMMARY:Summer Book Club with Susan Stein | Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric & Just Us: An American Conversation
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a citizen in conversation about whiteness in America? Join CWB’s Summer Book Club double-header read of Citizen: An American Lyric and Just Us: An American Conversation  by Claudia Rankine. These two books are brilliant and provocative; they are also quite challenging reads for their style\, structure and content. Let’s work together to unpack them! Rankine creates portraits that weave essays\, poems and images to invite us\, one conversation at a time\, to face whiteness in America.  Together we will think about how each of us is a citizen in many different ways and the role personal transformation plays. With CWB Resident Teaching Artist Susan Stein we talk about our selves and our historical selves\, personal and political while looking at Rankine’s unique frame by frame books that ask us to consider Microaggressions and the unseen ways racism lives in our society. Reading Citizen\, part prose poem\, part journal entry\, part photographs\, and Just Us\, an assembly of essays\, poems\, documents\, and images\, we will consider how Rankine’s multi-faceted approach shapes the way each text we encounter can be both window and mirror. Never telling us what to do\, she urges us to begin a discussion. We will use her books to do just that. \nEach session will run approximately 60 minutes. \nReading Schedule:  \nJune 16: Read through Book (Chapter) V\, Citizen\, p. 79 \nJune 23: Complete Citizen \nJune 30: Just US \nJuly 7: Just US \nJuly 14: Final Session \nAbout the books:\nCitizen: An American Lyric \nFinalist for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry\nWinner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\nFinalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism\nWinner of the 2015 PEN Open Book Award\nWinner of the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry \nClaudia Rankine’s bold recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights\, seemingly slips of the tongue\, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom\, at the supermarket\, at home\, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane\, online\, on TV—everywhere\, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak\, perform\, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging\, Rankine argues\, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay\, image\, and poetry\, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary\, often named “post-race” society. \nTo purchase Citizen: Amazon | Private Online Book Seller | or purchase at your local book store!\nJust Us: An American Conversation \nAs everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand\, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine\, without telling us what to do\, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history. \nJust Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together\, even and especially in breaching the silence\, guilt\, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport\, the theater\, the dinner party\, the voting booth—where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments\, beliefs\, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect. \nThis brilliant arrangement of essays\, poems\, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to\, and with\, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond\, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text\, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. \nSometimes wry\, often vulnerable\, and always prescient\, Just Us is Rankine’s most intimate work\, less interested in being right than in being true\, being together. \nTo purchase Just Us | Amazon | Private Online Book Seller | or purchase at your local book store!\nThese titles are eligible for the CWB book reimbursement stipend for classroom educators only. (Up to $100 in a calendar year- participation in the program is required.) \n	Susan Stein is an actor\, playwright and teaching artist in NYC. Stein has spent the past eight years touring her original play\, Etty\, directed by Austin Pendleton\, to theaters\, universities\, schools and prisons throughout the United States and parts of Europe. Stein has been an Artist/Scholar in residence at Cambridge University\, Duquesne\, Boston College\, Vanderbilt and Chapman University. She leads workshops in writing and acting throughout the US and UK. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School and SUNY Purchase and received a Master’s in Writing at Wesleyan University. She was on the faculty of Princeton Day school for 13 years.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/summer-book-club-with-susan-stein-claudia-rankines-citizen-an-american-lyric-just-us-an-american-conversation-4/
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion of "The Light of Days" By Judy Batalion with Dr. Josh Andy
DESCRIPTION:“About The BookWitnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities\, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage\, guile\, and nerves of steel\, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards\, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade\, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers\, bribed them with wine\, whiskey\, and home cooking\, used their Aryan looks to seduce them\, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children. \nYet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown. \nJudy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood\, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between. She has written for the New York Times\, Vogue\, the Washington Post and many other publications. Prior to her writing career\, she was an academic and is fluent in both Yiddish and Hebrew. Born and raised in Montreal\, she now lives in New York with her husband and children. \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 \n“
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/weekly-book-discussion-of-the-light-of-days-by-judy-batalion-with-dr-josh-andy-4/
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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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-update-with-avi-ben-hur-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210630T160000
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SUMMARY:Summer Book Club with Susan Stein | Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric & Just Us: An American Conversation
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a citizen in conversation about whiteness in America? Join CWB’s Summer Book Club double-header read of Citizen: An American Lyric and Just Us: An American Conversation  by Claudia Rankine. These two books are brilliant and provocative; they are also quite challenging reads for their style\, structure and content. Let’s work together to unpack them! Rankine creates portraits that weave essays\, poems and images to invite us\, one conversation at a time\, to face whiteness in America.  Together we will think about how each of us is a citizen in many different ways and the role personal transformation plays. With CWB Resident Teaching Artist Susan Stein we talk about our selves and our historical selves\, personal and political while looking at Rankine’s unique frame by frame books that ask us to consider Microaggressions and the unseen ways racism lives in our society. Reading Citizen\, part prose poem\, part journal entry\, part photographs\, and Just Us\, an assembly of essays\, poems\, documents\, and images\, we will consider how Rankine’s multi-faceted approach shapes the way each text we encounter can be both window and mirror. Never telling us what to do\, she urges us to begin a discussion. We will use her books to do just that. \nEach session will run approximately 60 minutes. \nReading Schedule:  \nJune 16: Read through Book (Chapter) V\, Citizen\, p. 79 \nJune 23: Complete Citizen \nJune 30: Just US \nJuly 7: Just US \nJuly 14: Final Session \nAbout the books:\nCitizen: An American Lyric \nFinalist for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry\nWinner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\nFinalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism\nWinner of the 2015 PEN Open Book Award\nWinner of the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry \nClaudia Rankine’s bold recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights\, seemingly slips of the tongue\, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom\, at the supermarket\, at home\, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane\, online\, on TV—everywhere\, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak\, perform\, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging\, Rankine argues\, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay\, image\, and poetry\, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary\, often named “post-race” society. \nTo purchase Citizen: Amazon | Private Online Book Seller | or purchase at your local book store!\nJust Us: An American Conversation \nAs everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand\, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine\, without telling us what to do\, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history. \nJust Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together\, even and especially in breaching the silence\, guilt\, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport\, the theater\, the dinner party\, the voting booth—where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments\, beliefs\, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect. \nThis brilliant arrangement of essays\, poems\, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to\, and with\, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond\, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text\, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. \nSometimes wry\, often vulnerable\, and always prescient\, Just Us is Rankine’s most intimate work\, less interested in being right than in being true\, being together. \nTo purchase Just Us | Amazon | Private Online Book Seller | or purchase at your local book store!\nThese titles are eligible for the CWB book reimbursement stipend for classroom educators only. (Up to $100 in a calendar year- participation in the program is required.) \n	Susan Stein is an actor\, playwright and teaching artist in NYC. Stein has spent the past eight years touring her original play\, Etty\, directed by Austin Pendleton\, to theaters\, universities\, schools and prisons throughout the United States and parts of Europe. Stein has been an Artist/Scholar in residence at Cambridge University\, Duquesne\, Boston College\, Vanderbilt and Chapman University. She leads workshops in writing and acting throughout the US and UK. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School and SUNY Purchase and received a Master’s in Writing at Wesleyan University. She was on the faculty of Princeton Day school for 13 years.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/summer-book-club-with-susan-stein-claudia-rankines-citizen-an-american-lyric-just-us-an-american-conversation-3/
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SUMMARY:Weekly Book Discussion of "The Light of Days" By Judy Batalion with Dr. Josh Andy
DESCRIPTION:About The BookWitnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities\, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage\, guile\, and nerves of steel\, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards\, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade\, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers\, bribed them with wine\, whiskey\, and home cooking\, used their Aryan looks to seduce them\, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children. \nYet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown. \nJudy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood\, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between. She has written for the New York Times\, Vogue\, the Washington Post and many other publications. Prior to her writing career\, she was an academic and is fluent in both Yiddish and Hebrew. Born and raised in Montreal\, she now lives in New York with her husband and children. \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/weekly-book-discussion-of-the-light-of-days-by-judy-batalion-with-dr-josh-andy-3/
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SUMMARY:"The House on Wannsee Street: Memoirs of a German Jewish Family" Film and Post Film Discussion with the filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun and her mother Helen Kaplun in conversation with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “The House on Wannsee Street” and engage in a post-film discussion with the filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun and her mother Helen Kaplun  in conversation with Avi Ben Hur. \nThe House on Wannsee Street: Memoirs of a German Jewish Family\nThe movie tells the story of film director Poli\, who lives in Buenos Aires. Her son decides to take his Bar Mitzvah\, in spite of the fact that Poli has no religious traditions\, though she does know her mother is of Jewish origin. \nPoli digs deep into her family’s history\, asking herself why she was not raised as a Jew. She searches in family albums and 8 mm movies\, and finds turn-of-the-century images of her great grandfather Otto\, a lay Jewish German philosopher persecuted by the Nazi. The family is forced to leave their house in Berlin because of Nazi persecution. They first move to Egypt\, then Switzerland and finally Argentina\, where they need to get Church papers to enter the country\, since after Second World War Jewish were not accepted as immigrants. \nPoli investigates how her mother and her two aunts live in the present with this story of exile\, where the Jewish and German identity is marked by exile. \nEighty years later\, Poli returns to Germany to her grandmother’s house on Wannsee Street\, a few meters from where the Final Solution was decreed for all Jews in Europe. \nAbout Poli Martinez Kaplun (Director/Executive Producer/Scriptwriter) \nPoli Martinez Kaplun was born in New York\, United States and currently resides in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. \nShe is a film producer and director educated in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires\, with a Bachelor in Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. \nShe completed specialization courses in television and film\, in the tertiary of the School of Canal 13 and then continued her studies in National Audiovisual Institute of France (INA) where she resided for two years. \nGoing back to Argentina\, she opened her audiovisual communication agency and production company\, where for 25 years ago she makes documentaries\, advertising videos\, training videos and projects for major national and international companies. She regularly co-produces documentaries with the French television. \nIn the year 2017\, she made her debut film “Lea and Mira leave their mark”\, a documentary about two women\, survivors of Auschwitz\, that today have more than 90 years of age. The film was selected in the official contest of 10 international festivals and honored with 3 awards for Best Women director\, music and editing by the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards. \nAbout Helen Kaplun\nHelen Kaplun was born in 1942 in Alexandria and emigrated to Argentina in 1949. She studied psychology at the University of Buenos Aires and has been a psychoanalyst in this city ever since. she lived for several years in Ithaka\, New York. \nThank you to our partners:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-house-on-wannsee-street-memoirs-of-a-german-jewish-family-film-and-post-film-discussion-with-the-filmmaker-poli-martinez-kaplun-and-her-mother-helen-kaplun-in-conversation-with-avi-ben-hur/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210623T160000
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SUMMARY:Summer Book Club with Susan Stein | Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric & Just Us: An American Conversation
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a citizen in conversation about whiteness in America? Join CWB’s Summer Book Club double-header read of Citizen: An American Lyric and Just Us: An American Conversation  by Claudia Rankine. These two books are brilliant and provocative; they are also quite challenging reads for their style\, structure and content. Let’s work together to unpack them! Rankine creates portraits that weave essays\, poems and images to invite us\, one conversation at a time\, to face whiteness in America.  Together we will think about how each of us is a citizen in many different ways and the role personal transformation plays. With CWB Resident Teaching Artist Susan Stein we talk about our selves and our historical selves\, personal and political while looking at Rankine’s unique frame by frame books that ask us to consider Microaggressions and the unseen ways racism lives in our society. Reading Citizen\, part prose poem\, part journal entry\, part photographs\, and Just Us\, an assembly of essays\, poems\, documents\, and images\, we will consider how Rankine’s multi-faceted approach shapes the way each text we encounter can be both window and mirror. Never telling us what to do\, she urges us to begin a discussion. We will use her books to do just that. \nEach session will run approximately 60 minutes. \nReading Schedule:  \nJune 16: Read through Book (Chapter) V\, Citizen\, p. 79 \nJune 23: Complete Citizen \nJune 30: Just US \nJuly 7: Just US \nJuly 14: Final Session \nAbout the books:\nCitizen: An American Lyric \nFinalist for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry\nWinner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\nFinalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism\nWinner of the 2015 PEN Open Book Award\nWinner of the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry \nClaudia Rankine’s bold recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights\, seemingly slips of the tongue\, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom\, at the supermarket\, at home\, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane\, online\, on TV—everywhere\, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak\, perform\, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging\, Rankine argues\, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay\, image\, and poetry\, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary\, often named “post-race” society. \nTo purchase Citizen: Amazon | Private Online Book Seller | or purchase at your local book store!\nJust Us: An American Conversation \nAs everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand\, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine\, without telling us what to do\, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history. \nJust Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together\, even and especially in breaching the silence\, guilt\, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport\, the theater\, the dinner party\, the voting booth—where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments\, beliefs\, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect. \nThis brilliant arrangement of essays\, poems\, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to\, and with\, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond\, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text\, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. \nSometimes wry\, often vulnerable\, and always prescient\, Just Us is Rankine’s most intimate work\, less interested in being right than in being true\, being together. \nTo purchase Just Us | Amazon | Private Online Book Seller | or purchase at your local book store!\nThese titles are eligible for the CWB book reimbursement stipend for classroom educators only. (Up to $100 in a calendar year- participation in the program is required.) \n	Susan Stein is an actor\, playwright and teaching artist in NYC. Stein has spent the past eight years touring her original play\, Etty\, directed by Austin Pendleton\, to theaters\, universities\, schools and prisons throughout the United States and parts of Europe. Stein has been an Artist/Scholar in residence at Cambridge University\, Duquesne\, Boston College\, Vanderbilt and Chapman University. She leads workshops in writing and acting throughout the US and UK. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School and SUNY Purchase and received a Master’s in Writing at Wesleyan University. She was on the faculty of Princeton Day school for 13 years.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/summer-book-club-with-susan-stein-claudia-rankines-citizen-an-american-lyric-just-us-an-american-conversation-2/
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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.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-update-with-avi-ben-hur-3/
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