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SUMMARY:Arab-Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:The Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions:\nThree concentric levels:\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\nMultiple narratives:\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession IX: Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\nIn December 1987\, the Palestinians re-entered the Israeli consciousness with the outbreak of massive civil disobedience that spread from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in the so-called “Intifada.” Although this uprising petered out by 1991\, by September 1993 Israeli and PLO representatives began a political process in an attempt to come to a final peace agreement between the sides. These talks and accords continued until the summer of 2000 when they collapsed in Camp David. Within weeks a second Intifada broke out which was characterized by Palestinian bombing attacks on the Israeli civilian population. Israel responded with force and the construction of a barrier to thwart the bombers. In 2005 Israel decided to disengage from the Gaza Strip. This resulted in the armed takeover of the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and 4 subsequent conflicts with Israel in 2008/9\, 2012\, 2014 and 2021. Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not existed for the past 6 years. \nSubjects to be covered: The 1st Intifada\, the Oslo Process\, 2nd Intifada\, Gaza redeployment\, 2005-2021 \nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nFinal SESSION in this series: \nJune 21\, 2022\nAll sessions will be 2:00pm-3:30pm ET. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders. \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact ellen@classroomswithoutborders.org \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:Love It Was Not Post Film Discussion with Avi Ben Hur and Maya Sarfaty\, the director/writer\, and Miki Marin daughter of Roza/Shoshana Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation 75 and sponsored by Dr. Daryl Miller is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Love It Was Not” and engage in a post-film discussion with the film director/writer\, Maya Sarfaty\, and Miki Marin daughter of Roza/Shoshana Orenstein in conversation with CWB Scholar\, Avi Ben-Hur.\nA tragic love story between a prisoner and her captor. Flamboyant and full of life\, Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz as a young woman\, and soon finds unlikely solace under the tutelage of Franz Wunsch\, a high-ranking SS officer who falls in love with her and her magnetic singing voice. Risking a certain execution if caught\, their forbidden relationship went on until her miraculous liberation. But when a letter arrives from Wunsch’s wife\, thirty years later\, begging Helena to testify on Wunsch’s behalf\, she’s faced with an impossible decision: will she help the man who brutalised so many lives\, but saved hers\, along with some of the people closest to her? \nMaya Sarfaty\nMaya Sarfaty is a director and writer\, known for Love It Was Not (2020)\, The Most Beautiful Woman (2016) and Overtime (2014). Filmmaker Sarfaty painstakingly worked through the archives of Israel’s Yad Vashem and Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation\, looking for recordings of women indexed as workers in the “Kanada” facility at Auschwitz and listening for mentions of Helena and Franz in their personal survival stories. \nMiki Marin\nMiki Marin\, is an actress\, director\, and co-owner of the School of Arts in Ha’Bustan\, Natanya (in Israel)\, which she has run with her husband\, Ze’evik Marin\, for 45 years. Miki and Ze’evik have two daughters\, Or and Stav Marin\, who are both dancers and choreographers. \nThe film\, Love It Was Not (2020)\, directed by Maya Safarty – a former dance and theater student of Miki’s – tells the unbelievable story of Miki’s mother\, Roza/Shoshana Orenstein\, and her sister\, Helena (Zippora) Citron\, during their time in Aushwitz.  \nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders. \nThank you to our partners:\nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact melissa@classroomswithoutborders.org
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SUMMARY:First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers- A conversation with Loung Ung
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters House\, South Africa Holocaust and Genocide Foundation and CWB partner together for a discussion with Loung Ung\, author of the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father and the critically acclaimed 2017 Netflix Original Movie directed by Angelina Jolie based on her book. \nBorn in 1970 to a middle-class family in Phnom Penh\, Loung Ung was only five years old when the Khmer Rouge Soldiers stormed into her city and her family was forced out of their home in a mass evacuation to the countryside. By 1978\, the Khmer Rouge had killed Ung’s parents and two of her siblings. In 1980\, she and her older brother escaped by boat to Thailand\, where they spent five months in a refugee camp. \nLoung’s first memoir\, the national best-seller First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Harper Perennial)\, details her survival of Cambodia’s killing fields\, one of the bloodiest episodes of the twentieth century. Some two million Cambodians — out of a population of just seven million — died at the hands of the infamous Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime. Of her family of nine\, five survived. Book Link Here \nToday\, she has shared her messages of building resilience\, healing from trauma\, civic service\, activism\, and leadership in the U.S. and across the world. She has spoken at numerous schools and\nuniversities\, including Stanford University\, Boston College\, Yale University\, the Young Presidents’ Organization\, The Million Dollar Round Table Plenary\, Omega Women’s Leadership\, the UN Conference in Nepal. \nThis program is hosted by the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum and is in partnership with:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/first-they-killed-my-father-a-daughter-of-cambodia-remembers-a-conversation-with-loung-ung/
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SUMMARY:Israel Update with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to participate in an update on Israel offered once per month. Given the events in the past few months\, from the recent conflict with Gaza to the internal political upheaval in Israel there is a necessity to get an educated view from the “inside”. We are offering an opportunity to hear from our in-house scholar – Avi Ben-Hur – as he helps us navigate and understand what is happening with the cease-fire with Hamas and the potential change of leadership of the Israeli government.\nConcluding Session for this Series:\nNovember 16\, 2021 Israel and Climate Change\, Jewish worship at the Western Wall\, & Archaeology Update\nPrevious sessions:\nOctober 12\, 2021 – Covid Update\, The Temple Mount\, The Other Epidemic: Violence & Crime in Arab society\, and New Archeological Finds\nSeptember 14\, 2021 – Jail Break\, Marriage Survey\, and Archaeological Findings\nAugust 17\, 2021: Israel-Poland Relations\, Resurgence of Covid – the Delta Variant\, Climate Change & Jerusalem Wildfires\, and the Olympians\nJuly 6\, 2021: Update on the new government\, Covid-19 in Israel and more.\nJune 22\, 2021: The 36th Government of Israel- June 2021\nJune 8 & May 19: How did this happen and where is it going?\nThe present malaise confounding Israel caught everyone by surprise. How did things slide out of control so quickly? What are the major challenges facing Israel at this very moment? How is the conflict impacting the political impasse since the recent March elections? What does the future hold for the relations between Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel?\nOur scholar in residence will be speaking about all of the above issues and more this coming Wednesday… \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. At Present\, Avi is an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism Licensing Boards and is the ongoing scholar in residence of Classrooms Without Borders.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-update-with-avi-ben-hur-5/
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SUMMARY:"Oma and Bella" Post Film Discussion with Alexa Karolinski\, the director and Jeffrey Yoskowitz\, an expert on Eastern European Jewish cuisine and its history: Moderated by Martine Perry\, Germany Close Up Program Coordinator.
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)\, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Oma and Bella” and engage in a post film discussion with Alexa Karolinski\, the director and Jeffrey Yoskowitz\, an expert on Eastern European Jewish cuisine and its history: Moderated by Martine Perry\, Germany Close Up Program Coordinator. \nOma and Bella is an intimate glimpse into the life of two dynamic elderly Jewish women in Berlin. The film follows them as make elaborate dishes recalled from their childhoods\, before the Holocaust. Through the cooking of the sumptuous meals\, they retain a part of their past past while remaining very much engaged in the present. \nAlexa Karolinski\nAlexa Karolinski is a German-Canadian screenwriter\, director\, producer. She has received the Peabody and Adolf Grimme awards for her work. \nBerlin-born Alexa Karolinski is a documentary filmmaker\, who divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. Karolinski premiered her first feature documentary\, Oma & Bella\, at the Berlin Film Festival in 2012. Adopting a non-traditional form of story-telling\, Karolinski is inspired by fashion\, art\, and design in both her personal and commercial projects. \nHer clients include CR Fashion Book\, V Magazine\, VICE Magazine\, Opening Ceremony\, Eckhaus Latta\, NastyGal\, Nowness and Arte TV. She was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2012 by Filmmaker Magazine. In 2019\, Karolinski co-wrote and co-created the Netflix show Unorthodox\, which is based on writer Deborah Feldman’s memoir. \nJeffrey Yoskowitz\nJeffrey Yoskowitz is a Brooklyn-based food entrepreneur\, creative producer\, and thought leader at the intersection of food\, culture and business. He’s also a Jewish food expert and a devotee to all things fermentation. \nAs co-founder of The Gefilteria\, he produces a cutting edge artisanal gefilte fish and culinary events\, presents lectures and cooking demos around the world\, and creates unique content related to Jewish food. Jeffrey co-authored the cookbook The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods\, which was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist and a top book of the year in USA Today\, Epicurious\, Newsday\, etc. The book sparked a national conversation about the legacy of Eastern European Jewish food traditions. \nJeffrey’s writing on food\, culture\, and the environment has been published in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Forward\, among others. He has contributed to both The Mile End Cookbook and The 100 Most Jewish Foods. He created and edited the literary site Pork Memoirs\, which was featured in O magazine and Grub Street. \nHe was named to both the Forbes 30 Under 30 in food & wine and to the Forward 50\, and he served as a guest chef at the esteemed James Beard Foundation multiple times. \nModerated by: Martine Perry\, Germany Close Up Program Coordinator \nMartine Perry\, Germany Close Up Program Coordinator\nMartine Perry has been working as a Germany Close Up program coordinator since February 2012. She holds a Bachelor’s degree with majors in Political Science and German from the University of Melbourne and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Freie Universität\, Berlin.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/oma-and-bella-post-film-discussion-with-alexa-karolinski-the-director-and-jeffrey-yoskowitz-an-expert-on-eastern-european-jewish-cuisine-and-its-history-moderated-by-martine-perry-germany-close/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour of Israel - Tel Aviv
DESCRIPTION:Jonty has led many seminars and missions in Poland and Israel and is a gifted educator and a fascinating storyteller. Jonty has a unique way of connecting his teachings to his audience\, such that their experience of learning leaves a deep and enduring impact on their lives. He weaves together Jewish history with philosophy\, culture with archaeology\, and the tragedy of the Holocaust with probing\, source-based theological questions. His intricate knowledge of Jewish history and the Holocaust\, combined with his analytical and sensitive approach to challenging philosophical questions offers students a profound educational experience.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/virtual-tour-of-israel-tel-aviv/
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210706T140000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210630T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T055335
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210629T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210624T150000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210622T140000
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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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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/
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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-2/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour of Israel with Rabbi Jonty Blackman: What would happen if the Messiah were to come at night
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-with-rabbi-jonty-blackman-what-would-happen-if-the-messiah-were-to-come-at-night/
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SUMMARY:"Complicit" Film and Post Film Discussion with the filmmaker Robert Krakow in conversation with SS St. Louis Passengers\, Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation and the George Washington University’s Rabin Chair Forum\, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Complicit” and engage in a post-film discussion with the filmmaker Robert Krakow in conversation with SS St. Louis Passengers\, Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener.\nComplicit is a production of the SS St Louis Legacy Project and is touring as part of the 82nd anniversary of the voyage of the SS St Louis. The film contains rare footage and candid interviews with the heroic Jewish refugees from Germany who were turned away by the United States in June\, 1939 and who returned to the US to make extraordinary contributions to American society. It also includes never-before-seen footage of the US Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal’s exposé of America’s inadequate response to the Jewish refugee crisis of the time. \nComplicit also features the 2012 US State Department ceremony in which Deputy Secretary of State William Burns makes the first ever apology to a delegation of surviving passengers of the SS St Louis before a group of high-ranking diplomats and foreign service officers. Part of this ceremony includes the fictional courtroom drama depicting Franklin D Roosevelt on trial for complicity in crimes against humanity. \nClick HERE for more information about the SS St Louis Legacy Foundation \nRobert Krakow \nRobert Krakow (on the right pictured with Jonathon Krakow attending PM Justin Trudeau’s apology to the passengers of the SS St. Louis on November 7\, 2018) Robert is a graduate of Georgetown Law School and the author of two acclaimed plays\, The False Witness and The Trial of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Both plays have been performed in theater venues throughout the United States.  \nKrakow is the creator of the documentary film\, COMPLICIT\, which won 1st prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival for the festival’s prestigious Judaica category for films celebrating the Jewish Experience. His foundation was responsible for bringing 14 surviving passengers from the refugee ship\, SS St Louis\, to the US Department of State in September\, 2012\, where Deputy Secretary of State William Burns welcomed the passengers on behalf of President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton. The ceremony included the first ever apology by the State Department for refusing to address the Jewish refugee crisis during the pre-war and wartime period. \nKrakow’s groundbreaking research on the origins of Hitler’s anti-Jewish propaganda was published in The Qualitative Report of Nova Southeastern University.  In November\, 2018\, his foundation lead a delegation of 5 SS St. Louis passengers to the House of Commons in Ottawa\, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed the passengers on behalf of the Government of Canada and made the official apology statement for Canada’s refusal to grant them safe haven in June\, 1939.  \nIn May\, 2014\, he was honored by the City of Miami for his “Championship of Justice and Human Rights and his critical work in the SS St Louis Legacy Project”. \nSonja Geismar \nSonja Geismar – Bronx\, NY: In May 1939\, Sonja’s parents\, paternal grandparents\, two great aunts\, and another great aunt with her husband were passengers on the St. Louis.. In Havana harbor she remembers the tenders and waving to cousins who came to see their grandparents who unfortunately went to Belgium and met their fate in a gas chamber. They went to England at and when their quota numbers were reached they sailed into New York harbor on February 11\, 1940 and the Statue of Liberty came into view. Sonja became a high school social studies teacher. Years later she changed the direction of my career by returning to graduate school for her second Masters degree. She became a high school librarian in an inner city school and after ten years became head librarian. \nEva Wiener \nEva Wiener\, Neptune\, NJ Eva Rose (Safier) Wiener was born in Berlin\, Germany during the rise of Hitler. To escape the Nazis\, her parents were able to book passage on the St. Louis\, for its ill-fated voyage to Havana\, Cuba. When the ship was forced to return its passengers to Europe\, Eva and her parents were among the fortunate ones to be accepted into the quota for England. They immigrated to the United States in May of 1946. Eva was employed as a Budget Analyst at Fort Monmouth\, an installation of the U. S. Department of Defense. While at the Fort she was instrumental in establishing a yearly program commemorating the Holocaust. This program grew to become the most successful program of its kind for a military installation. She has been Past President of the Monmouth County Chapter of B’nai Brith Women and the Gibor Zimel Resnick Chapter of American Friends of Magen David Adom. In November of 2006 Eva was honored by being the recipient of the Eishet Chayil (Woman of Valor) awarded by the Central New Jersey Women’s Branch for Conservative Judaism. In 2012 Eva was selected by her synagogue as the Woman of the Year. In May of 2012 Eva also received a “Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition” for “invaluable service to the community” presented to her by Congressman Frank Pallone\, Jr. \nThank you to our partners:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/complicit-film-and-post-film-discussion-with-the-filmmaker-robert-krakow-in-conversation-with-ss-st-louis-passengers-sonja-geismar-and-eva-wiener/
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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/
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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-2/
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SUMMARY:Czech Embassy: Author Series Ariana Neumann discusses her book "When Time Stopped" with Dr. Josh Andy
DESCRIPTION:Czech 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 will incorporate book talks\, film screenings\, lectures\, musical performances\, exhibitions\, and more beginning June 1\, 2021. \nIntroductory words: Lukáš Přibyl: Head of Public Diplomacy\, Embassy of the Czech Republic\, Washington DC \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with the Czech Embassy\, is excited to offer this opportunity to engage in a discussion with author Ariana Neumann about her book “When Time Stopped.” \nAriana Neumann was born and grew up in Venezuela. She has a BA in History and French Literature from Tufts University\, an MA in Spanish and Latin American Literature from New York University and a PgDIP in Psychology of Religion from University of London. She previously was involved in publishing\, worked as a foreign correspondent for Venezuela’s The Daily Journal and her writing also appeared in The European. \nShe currently lives in London with her husband\, three children\, a basset fauve de Bretagne\, a border terrier and a rescue mutt. \nAbout The Book\nIn this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so\, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary\, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist\, starred review). \nIn 1941\, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis\, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. \nOf thirty-four Neumann family members\, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann\, who\, to escape the German death net\, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo’s eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that\, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela\, he couldn’t bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. \nWhen Hans died\, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters\, diary entries\, and other memorabilia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated\, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving\, finding meaning\, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/czech-embassy-author-series-ariana-neumann-discusses-her-book-when-time-stopped-with-dr-josh-andy/
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SUMMARY:Argentina #2 - Jewish Heritage Around the World Part II series with CWB scholar Avi Ben-Hur and guest speakers
DESCRIPTION:“This series is co-sponsored by Rodef Shalom Congregation.\nJewish Heritage Around the World: \nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to embark on our second Jewish Heritage Series. The communities covered include Britain\, Turkey\, Argentina\, France\, India and more. We will have two sessions per community. The opening session will consist of an historical survey by an expert on the topic. The second session will engage in a dialogue with members of the community. Due to time differences\, it is possible that some of the timing for the “dialogue” sessions will change\, but generally speaking the series will be running on Tuesdays from 2 PM to 3:15 PM Eastern Time. The sessions will take place on the dates below. \nUpcoming Sessions:\nThe Jews of Argentina– May 4th & June 1st\nThe largest Jewish community of Latin America and the 3rd largest in the Americas\, the population peaked at close to 350\,000 in the late 1970s. Jews have been in Argentina since the 17th century and have been involved in and witness to some of the major historical junctions of this young country. The community suffered the worst post WWII attack of any Jewish community in the world when the main community center in Buenos Aires was bombed by Hezbollah in 1994. Jewish life in Argentina is robustly pluralistic with strong Reform\, Conservative and Orthodox communities including rabbinic seminaries\, schools and camps. And yet\, assimilation is on the rise and the population is decreasing. \nJoining us on May 4 were our esteemed guest speakers\, Dr. Judith Freidenberg and Dr. Emmanuel Kahan. \nEmmanuel Kahan holds a PhD in History from the National University of La Plata. He is a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina. He is also a Professor with the History Department at the National University of La Plata and teaches postgraduate courses at several other universities in Argentina. He published many books and articles about the Jewish experience in Argentina and is a member of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association \nJudith Freidenberg holds a PhD in Anthropology from City University of New York.  She taught at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York and at the University of Maryland\, where she is now Professor Emerita.  She published extensively on migration and health.  Two books deal with the Jewish experience in rural Argentina\, and appear in Spanish and English.  She is also a member of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.    \nJoining us on June 1st are our esteemed guest speakers: Dr. Marisa Braylan\, Mirta Kupferminc\, Micaela Bursztein\, Karina Gorenstein and Federico Nemetsky!\nDr. Marisa Braylan \nDr. Marisa Braylan is a lawyer from University of Buenos Aires (UBA)\, specialized in Public International Law (1995). Pedagogical Training of the Teaching Career in that Faculty. Visiting professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences\, Political Science and Sociology of the UBA. Director of the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the DAIA (Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations). She led the research group on “Comparative international law. Denial of the Holocaust in Argentina ”\, program of Institutional Accreditation of Research Projects in Law (DeCyT) carried out jointly by DAIA and UBA. Diploma in migration and refugee protection- Faculty of Law-UBA. Diploma in Discrimination and Right to Equality – Faculty of Law-UBA. Invited professor of Special Didactics of Law\, professor of Legal Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the UBA. \nMirta Kupferminc\nPhoto by: Alejandro Meter\nMirta Kupferminc: Lecturer\, mentor of other artists and teacher\, she lives and works in Buenos Aires. Exhibiting since 1977\, she has had more than 100 solo and group shows in Argentina\, Cuba\, Brazil\, Uruguay\, China Switzerland\, Spain\, Taiwan\, Japan\, Hong Kong \, Germany\, Israel\, Poland\, France\, Hungary\, England\, United States. Her works can be found in International Collections and Museums. Received local and international printmaking awards\, Example: Great Honor Prize (2012) in Argentina\, First Prize Sivori Museum\, Argentina (2018) Silver Medal Taiwan Biennale (2006) Honor Mention Taipei Biennale (1999)Third Prize  at 7th Koichi Biennale (2008). \nIn 2013 she was the first international fellow at LABA House of Study: a laboratory for Jewish Art and Culture at the 14th St Y NYC.and is also the founding LABA-BA director in Buenos Aires. And also directs Grafia Insurgente Association. \nMicaela Bursztein \nMicaela is the Manager of Project Evaluation for JDC in Latin America \nMicaela was born and raised in Buenos Aires\, Argentina.  She graduated from the ORT High School and went on to complete her BA in Political Science at Universidad de Buenos Aires.  In 2007 she traveled to Israel with Taglit-Birthright Israel.  The trip was transformative for her\, and solidified her commitment to working in the Jewish community.  Prior to coming to JDC Micaela spent seven years in the Finance and Resource Development department of Chabad Lubavitch Argentina.  She has worked for JDC since 2017\, and is also currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration at Universidad de San Andrés.  \nKarina Gorenstein \nEducational Training\n• GRADUATE IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT-­ UNTREF (Licenciada en Gestión\nEducativa. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero)\n• TEACHER FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION -­ ISFD 7 CABA. (PROFESORA PARA LA\nENSEÑANZA PRIMARIA. INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE FORMACIÓN DOCENTE N7)\n• SPECIALIZED TEACHER IN ADOLESCENT AND ADULT EDUCATION. PROFESORA\nESPECIALIZADA EN EDUCACIÓN DE ADOLESCENTES Y ADULTOS ISFD N1\nAVELLANEDA\nProfessional Experience\n• GENERAL DIRECTOR in AGNON Y MELAMED –AMIA -­ Teacher Training Institutes\n(since February 2018)\n• PROJECT CORDINATOR in TEACHERS ACCOMPANYING SCHOOL TRAJECTORS.\nDir. Of Elementary Education. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION City of Buenos Aires. (since\nFebruary 2017)\n• DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION OF THE NATION. Ministry of Education and\nSports of the Nation. January 2016-­January 2017)\n• Teacher in presencial and distance courses at the National and International level / Teacher\nTraining Programs / Institutional advice / Content writing /\nScholarships and Prizes\n• FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP for School Directors. Held in Columbus-­OHIO USA 2013\n• YAD VASHEM SCHOLARSHIP -­ “The teaching of the Shoah and the dilemmas of its\ntransmission” -­ Held in Jerusalem-­ January 2020\n• TEAMWORK AWARD Ministry of Modernization of the Government of the City of Buenos\nAires year 2013.\n• INNOVATION AWARD Ministry of Modernization of the Government of the City of Buenos\nAires year 2014 \nFederico Nemetsky \nSon of a father from Tucumám\, a small City in the north with a small Jewish Community\, and a mother from Campana\, an even smaller town near Buenos Aires with a tiny Community\, Federico has been living all his life related with Judaism and working with the Jewish Communities around Argentina. \nCurrently\, he is working on his PhD in Cultural Diversity and finishing a master degree with a specialization in Jewish Studies. He is the Director of Studies of the Agnon and Melamed Institutes (Jewish Teachers training institutes) and the Coordinator of the postgraduate course “”Jewish History and its Teaching””. \nHe is a lecturer both for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences and institutions in a wide variety of topics mainly related with Jewish culture and geo-political analysis of the Middle East. \nFederico is and active participant of local Jewish political scene and takes part in different Zionist and Jewish organizations\, like being a member of the Board of the KKL in Argentina. \n Past sessions:\nThe Jews of Britain – January 19th & February 2nd\nFrom the earliest known accusation of “blood libel” (William of Norwich – 1144) to the “falling out” of British Jewry and the Labor Party\, the history of the Jews in Britain has known its ups and downs. In addition to tracing the trajectory of the Jewish presence in the British Isles\, we plan to unpack the key issues facing British Jewry today\, as expressed by the British Jews we shall be meeting. \nOn January 19th: We welcomed Prof. David Mendelsson to our program \nProf. David Mendelsson is a senior lecturer at Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School (RIS)\, teaching History of the Modern State of Israel and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: From Its Origins to the Present. He is also the most recent past director of the Year in Israel program at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. Prof. Mendelsson holds doctoral and master’s degrees from the Department of Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University. \nOn February 2: We welcomed these esteemed guests:  \nMichael Wegier – Board of Deputies of British Jews: Interim Chief Executive  \nMichael Wegier has worked in Jewish Education and Strategic Planning in the UK\, Israel\, and the United States.  Previous positions include Director of Melitz Educational Centers in Jerusalem\, Director of Jewish Education at the Baltimore JCC and Chief Executive of UJIA in the UK. Michael has also provided Strategic Plannng services to the Jewish Agency and World ORT and other global Jewish organisations. Michael has an MA in Contemporary Jewry from the Hebrew University and is a graduate of the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows. In March\, Michael will begin a new role as Interim Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.  \nJoanne Greenaway – London School of Jewish Studies: Chief Executive \nJoanne joined LSJS\, the London School of Jewish Studies\, in January 2019 as Chief Executive.  LSJS delivers inspiring education programmes which transmit a love of learning and achieve excellence in teaching to transform the Jewish community through teacher training degrees and innovative\, accessible adult education.  Joanne was previously at the United Synagogue where she was Get Case Director within the London Beth Din\, focussing on difficult cases of Get refusal\, as well as the Deputy Legal Director of the US. Prior to this she studied languages at Cambridge University before qualifying as a lawyer and working in private practice for 12 years\, in the field of international arbitration and public international law. Joanne is a graduate of the the Chief Rabbi’s Ma’ayan programme\, the JLC Gamechangers Senior Leadership programme and the LSJS Susi Bradfield Educational Leadership programme. She has worked as a consultant for schools and communities across Europe.  \nMark Gardner – Community Security Trust: Chief Executive \nMark is Chief Executive of CST\, having previously been Director of Communications and Research. He joined CST in 1989\, and is a leading commentator and writer on contemporary antisemitism. Mark  has represented British and European Jews in numerous fora\, for example giving the keynote speech at the 2015 European Union Colloquium on antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate; and giving evidence in British\, Israeli and German parliamentary hearings on antisemitism.  \nMark was awarded a Police Commendation for his role in helping lead Scotland Yard’s cross-London response to the 1999 neo-Nazi nail bomb campaign. He also played a prominent role in the April 2018 ill-fated Jewish community leadership meeting with (then) Leader of the Labour Party\, Jeremy Corbyn MP. \nClaudia Mendoza – Jewish Leadership Council: Co-CEO \nClaudia is the Interim Co CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council and manages the External Affairs Team. Claudia sets the strategy and priorities for the team and leads on the JLC’s policy positions. She has worked for various think tanks as a Research Analyst\, focusing on the Middle East with a special interest in Iran and the transitioning Arab states. \nClaudia has a BSc in Biochemistry from University College London and an MA in Middle East Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London. She is an alumna of the Adam Science Foundation Leadership Programme. \nTurkey and its Jews – February 16th & March 2nd\nThere has been a continuous Jewish presence in Asia Minor (Turkey of today) going back at least 2300 years. The past 600 years of Jewish life in Turkey has taken place within an Islamic milieu. In the Ottoman empire\, which lasted for more than 400 years\, the Jews were considered to be the “most loyal” subjects and it was that empire that gave Sephardic Jews a “safe harbor” in the wake of the Spanish and Portuguese expulsions. Once a flourishing large community\, Turkish Jewry are on the eve of their disappearance. We aim to illuminate the source of Turkey’s positive engagement with its Jews as well as grappling with the question of community continuity in the 21st century. \nJoining us on February 16 was Professor Louis Fishman: \nLouis Fishman is an associate professor in the history department at Brooklyn College\, City University of New York. He is the author of the book\, Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman Era\, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland (Edinburgh University Press\, January 2020). His academic work focuses on late Ottoman Palestine\, the Jews of the Ottoman Empire\, modern Turkey\, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In addition to his academic expertise\, he has written tens of newspaper articles and provided political analysis for numerous international media outlets on Turkish\, Israeli\, and Palestinian affairs. Since 2013 he is a regular contributor for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He divides his time between New York\, Istanbul and Tel Aviv\, all three cities which he considers home. \nHere is the link to Professor Fishman’s book:\nhttps://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-jews-and-palestinians-in-the-late-ottoman-era-1908-1914.html \nAlso available on Amazon  \nJoining us on March 2 is Nisya Isman Allovi\, Karen Gerson Şarhon\, Lisya Behar and Nesi Altaras: \nNisya Isman Allovi has been the Director since 2002  and Curator of The Quincentennial Foundation Museum Of Turkish Jews. Born in Istanbul\, graduated from the International Relations Faculty and Cultural Heritage and Tourism\, she has attended advanced curatorial seminars at AEJM (Association of European Jewish Museums) and in the Federal Republic of Germany. She has conducted presentations in various countries about “”Jews Of Turkey””. Married with two children\, Nisya is an active member of the Istanbul Jewish community.\nMuseum link: www.muze500.com \nKaren Gerson Şarhon born in Istanbul in 1958. Has a BA in English Language and Literature\, an MA in Social Psychology and an MA in Applied Linguistics. Wrote both her MA theses on the Judeo-Spanish language.\nAt the end of 2003\, she founded the Sephardic Culture Research Center\, where she has been working as its coordinator ever since. The Sephardic Center of Istanbul continues its work on the preservation and documentation of all aspects of the Sephardic culture. Karen heads many projects in the Center. The Centropa Oral History Project\, the Maftirim Project\, The Ladino Database Project\, the Judeo-Spanish – Turkish – Judeo-Spanish dictionary project are the ones that have been finished. She has edited all the books and CDs the Center has published\, which include a book of caricatures in Judeo-Spanish\, 4 books of anecdotes and stories of Matilda Koen-Sarano\, 16 small novels in Judeo-Spanish called “”Romansikos en Judeo-Espanyol”” from the archives of the Alliance Israelite Universelle\, the Judeo-Spanish – Turkish dictionary and a number of CDs in Sephardic music. She is also the chief editor of the only monthly newspaper in the world that is entirely in Ladino\, El Amaneser and also of the Judeo-Spanish page(s) of the weekly Şalom newspaper. In 2011\, she was awarded the medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française by the Ministry of Culture of France for her contribution to the world culture and her efforts in the preservation of Judeo-Spanish\, an endangered language. Karen has many articles on the Sephardic Culture published mainly in 3 languages: Turkish\, English and Ladino. She has also taken part in many TV programs\, documentaries\, etc. on Judeo-Spanish and the Sephardic music and culture. \nShe has Ladino lessons on YouTube and currently at: www.sephardicbrotherhood/ladino 101 \nKaren is also the founder\, singer and presenter of the group Los Pasharos Sefaradis\, the most authentic group in Turkish Sephardic music. Has 9 albums published by this group. \nLisya Behar was born in İstanbul. Volunteering in the Jewish Community since childhood\, Lisya has been president of the local Jewish Youth Team\, helped build a homecare system for the elderly\,  and is one of the co-founders of Limmud Turkey. She is currently the CEO of the Alef Jewish Community Center İstanbul \nNesi Altaras is an MA student in Political Science at McGill University from Istanbul\, Turkey. A member of the shrinking Jewish community of Turkey\, Nesi is a writer and editor for the online Jewish publication Avlaremoz and his current research is on the migration of Jews from Kurdistan in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. His previous work was on the failed peace and reconciliation processes in Turkey on the Kurdish question. His interest is in minorities in both the contemporary Middle East and in late Ottoman history as well as identity in Turkey. \nThe Jews of India – March 16th & 23rd\nWhat? There are Indian Jews? The answer emphatically is yes\, and there is a variety of different types of Indian Jews. One of the questions we will grapple with is when did Jews first arrive in the Indian sub-continent. What kinds of traditions emerged with this community and what kind of relationship did Indian Jews have with their co-religionists around the world\, if any? Another question relates to the fact that historically\, Indian Jews never experienced antisemitism. This being the case\, why did most Indian Jews emigrate to Israel in the 1950s? \nJoining us on March 16 was Dr. Maisie Meyer \nDr. Meyer was born in Calcutta (Kolkata) and grew up in a colonial setting. The subject she chose to research reflects her personal autobiography. It gives her a deeper understanding of Baghdadi Jews\, their emulation of a British lifestyle and their desire to appear as British as possible within the parameters of their faith. She is a double graduate in English and Humanities\, both with honours\, and obtained an MA degree in International History. The British Academy awarded her a scholarship to do a PhD which she was awarded from the London School of Economics in 1994. She pioneered the research of the Baghdadi Jewish Community of Shanghai. Her publications From the Rivers of Babylon to the Whangpoo: A Century of Sephardi Jewish Life in Shanghai (Lanham M.D.2003) and Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Compilation of Biographical Memories (Hong Kong 2013) have been widely acclaimed. \nJoining us on March 23 was Nissim J. Pingle and Ralphy Jhirad \nNissim J. Pingle works for the JDC\, India office as the Director for the EPJCC (Evelyn Peters Jewish Community Center). As a longtime member and somebody who has benefited immensely from the activities of AJDC and JCC\, he sees this role as an opportunity to give back. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations and growth of the JCC programs as well as developing and implementing programs that help in community building and/or Jewish learning. A Physics graduate from the Mumbai University\, he has worked as an Operations Manager for a Call Center and a General Manager for a chain of Fitness Centers. He lives in Navi Mumbai with his wife\, parents and 2 sons. When he is not glued to a computer or TV screen\, he spends time playing with his kids\, quizzing\, and trying hard not be the worst player in Table Tennis! \nRalphy Jhirad is the Trustees of the Bene Israel Heritage Museum and Genealogical Research Centre. Ralphy is the authority on the Jewish Heritage of India and is faculty on the same subject in the Guides Training Course of the Government of India\, Department of Tourism. He is a member of the Jewish Community in India and is dedicated to the preservation of their culture. He published following books\, BOMBAY : Exploring The Urban Jewish Heritage by Shaul Sapir\, Siyon se Sahyadri Tak by Sheba Jeremiah Nagaokar\, The Jews of Pakistan by Yoel Reuben\, Of Muse and Memories by Rebecca Yehezkielm\, The Demographic and Socio Economic Characteristics of Jews in India by Ralphy Jhirad and Lily Ezekiel. He has curated and organized following Exhibitions: Contribution of David Sassoon and family towards the development of Bombay and Jewish Landmarks in Mumbai. He has developed following itineraries for Tours of Jewish Heritage in India: Tour of Jewish Heritage in Mumbai\, Sassoon Landmarks of Mumbai\, Tour of Jewish  Arrival in Raigad and their original traditions\, India a Jewish Perspective\, Tour of the Jews of Kerala\, Tour of the Jewish Community of Ahmedabad. Ralphy organized the first ever visit of the Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogues. A few photos from this visit are enclosed for reference. He has assisted several Authors\, Full Bright Scholars\, Film Makers and Museum Curators during their research in India. He has travelled to various centers of India where Jewish Heritage is predominant and assisted Thousands of Jewish Travelers to either discover their own Jewish Roots in India or learn about the incredible Jewish Perspective in India. Refer Website visitjewishindia.com for more details on various tour options including incredible India and it’s Jewish Heritage. \nFrench Jewry – April 6th & April 20th\nThe great medieval commentator Rashi\, Baron Rothschild\, Alfred Dreyfuss\, Leon Blum\, Simone Weil\, Emanuel Levinas are just a few famous French (Jewish) names that come to mind when thinking about the contribution of French Jewry. The first Jews in Europe to be offered emancipation\, in recent years French Jewry has found itself facing the worst antisemitic attacks in Europe. How this came to be are just some of the subjects we will engage in with this dynamic community. \nJoining us on April 6 was: \nPhilippe Boukara                Philippe Boukara was born in Paris in 1957. He is an historian\, specialised in Contemporary French Jewry. He is a coordinator of Adult Education in the Shoah Memorial in Paris\, and he has been teaching in various academic institutions. He is involved in Jewish-Christian dialogues ans is the honorary chair of Dorvador\, the Conservative Congregation in Eastern Paris. He publishes regularly in the French Jewish press. \nJoining us on April 20 is:  \n                 Yonathan Arfi is vice-president of CRIF and chairman of CRIF’s commission for international affairs. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the CRIF for the last 14 years and has worked closely with former and current presidents of CRIF\, Richard Prasquier\, Roger Cukierman and Francis Kalifat.\nYonathan Arfi was born in 1980 in Toulouse and raised in Paris\, where he graduated from HEC business school in 2003. He is the CEO of Optimal Gestion\, the financial consulting firm he founded in 2007 in Paris.He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Alliance Israélite Universelle (www.aiu.org – main Jewish organization in the field of education in France) and Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (www.ose-france.org – main Jewish social welfare organization in France).\nYonathan Arfi was also the chairman of the French Union of Jewish Students from 2003 to 2005. He founded in 2005 CoExist (www.coexist.fr)\, the leading program in France against racial\, religious andcultural prejudices among French pupils and has been working on the issue of anti-Semitism since 2000. \nMasha Ugryumova is 27 years old and was born and grew up in Tcheliabinsk\, Russia. \nShe moved to France at the age of 18 to study Communication at La Sorbonne University. \nToday she lives in Paris and works for international organisation for Jewish youth Hilel Campus France as the Head of Communication.  \nThanks to her job\, she’s directly concerned by today’s challenges and struggles that Jewish youth of France have to face and looks for the solutions how to deal with that. \n                Elie Touitou\nBorn and raised in Paris\, in a Zionist and traditionalist Jewish Family\, Elie is a Lawyer specialized in Digital and Business Law. In 2016\, during his studies at Sorbonne Law School\, he founded the association Alliance\, in a double reference to Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Beitar and to René Cassin’s Alliance Universelle Israélite (Kol Israel Haverim). \nFirst acting as a local organization inside the University\, the association grew fast and is now a federation of five local association gathering +500 students across the major Parisian campuses. Alliance aims to organize Jewish life on campus\, provide Jewish and Zionist students with the intellectual means necessary to be able to defend their convictions by organizing formation\, lectures\, workshops\, debates and journeys and also to fight antisemitism\, in all its forms\, on French Campuses. \nThe Association developed close bounds with Zionist and/or Israeli organizations with which it works on a daily basis. \nDelphine Gamburg: Director of Communication at the Embassy of Israel in France \nDelphine Gamburg was born in France and emigrated to Israel in 1995. After working for the Israeli Ministry of Integration between 1996-1998\, she joined the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  She worked there as a lawyer until 2005\,  then held various positions in the Department of International Development Cooperation\, and to the Department of Strategic Affairs until her departure to the United States in 2015 where she was the cultural attaché at the Embassy of Israel in Washington DC. \nShe is currently in charge of the Public Communication Department at the Embassy of Israel in France. Delphine has a Bachelor of Laws\, a Masters of International Relations\, and a PhD in American foreign policy in the Middle East. She is married and has 3 children \nKAREN REB RUDEL \nBorn and raised in Johnstown\, Pennsylvania\, Karen grew up with the aspiration to be a comedian\, a musician\, or both… She groomed these crafts from a young age by making everyone around her laugh and beginning a lifetime romance with the flute at the age of 9. She went on to study drama at Temple University in Philadelphia and played in a series of bands. \nFrom the age of 30 until she got married\, Karen was back and forth between Paris and Philadelphia\, working on musical projects and touring (including being the flautist and singer in a Reggae band in Paris). One day her parents came to visit her and Karen\, having learned a lot about Paris\, was showing them around when her mother exclaimed\, “Karen\, you would make a great tour guide!” \nThat was the light bulb moment\, and as the French say\, voila! \nParis has been Karen’s stomping ground for over 20 years\, and her company is in a unique position to give you the historical background and underground cultural scoops that most walking tours leave out. \nAvi Ben-Hur \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi moved to Israel in 1983. Currently\, he is on the faculty of the University of Haifa Tourism School\, an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism\, and the Director of Education of Classrooms Without Borders. \nAn eclectic Israeli educator specializing in Land of Israel studies\, the history of Jerusalem\, the Arab-Israeli conflict and Holocaust studies\, Avi’s expertise is in integrating ideas and knowledge from various disciplines into a comprehensive and coherent narrative.”
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SUMMARY:"Still Life in Lodz" Film and Post Film Discussion with the filmmaker Slawomir Grünberg and Roni Ben Ari in conversation with Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation\, the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, and The Ghettos Fighters’ House\, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Still Life in Lodz” and engage in a post-film discussion with the filmmaker Slawomir Grünberg and Roni Ben Ari.\nOne Painting\, a Century of Jewish Life\nThe lure of family mysteries lies at the heart of “Still Life in Lodz”\, an emotionally riveting documentary that journeys to the historically tumultuous city of Lodz\, Poland. Here\, a surprise reunion with a painting that hung in the same apartment for 75 world-altering years becomes a probing investigation into the power of memory\, art\, time and resilience. \nWhat follows is a deeply personal detective story rich with twists and turns. But\, equally\, the film is an ode to the lost generations of Jewish Lodz and a look at how fragile—but also how incredibly necessary—our relationship with the past is for creating the future. \nThe stirring mystery begins inside an ordinary-seeming tenement apartment where a painting has witnessed the most extraordinary of times. The painting is a serene still life. But it has clung to the wall through incredible personal and global turmoil— through both war and peace\, through moments of joyous communion and shocking chaos\, through everyday scenes of family love and the shattering terror of hate\, displacement\, the Holocaust and totalitarian rule. \nOnce\, this painting was the constant companion to Lilka Elbaum\, who grew up in Lodz and lived there until 1968\, when at the age of 19\, an antisemitic purge drove her and her entire family out of Poland. The portrait might have been a simple likeness of lush flowers and ripe fruit\, but for Lilka\, it had been an indelible connection to her childhood and to Lodz itself. \n48 years later\, by remarkable chance\, Lilka has an emotional re-encounter with the painting in Lodz. This will spark a new journey full of startling new discoveries but also to a reckoning with the countless ghosts and complicated stories of the city. She brings two important companions on her trek\, each with roots in Lodz from different eras\, each searching for their own answers. New Yorker Paul Celler brings the perspective of a second-generation Holocaust survivor as he traces how his mother\, against all odds\, made it out of the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. Exploring the pre-War life of Lodz is Israeli artist Roni Ben-Ari who is drawn back to the spot of her family’s textile workshop once located in Lilka’s same building. Together\, the trio maps their own labyrinthine stories onto Lodz’s current landscape. \nAll of this comes to life through a mix of live moments\, expressive original animation\, authentic drawings and rare archival footage\, which make the past as visceral and intimate as the present. The film is directed by Emmy Award winner Slawomir Grünberg (director and producer of more than 45 docs including the acclaimed KARSKI & THE LORDS OF HUMANITY). Himself a Jewish native of Lublin\, Poland\, Grünberg taps into a handmade style to get to the story’s innermost emotions and to mirror the intangible nature of memories. His unusual approach makes these unique accounts of Jewish perseverance fresh. Expansive as the story is\, Grünberg zeroes in on the details: on the everyday mementos and artifacts that become the precious vessels where families store their most vital remembrances\, and which so often are lasting clues to our life stories. As Lilka\, Paul and Roni hunt for signs and symbols that can link them to their forebears\, the film ponders how it is that mere inanimate objects—artworks\, furniture\, keepsakes\, street corners\, the very buildings we dwell within—are enchanted with feeling\, meaning and connections to one another. \n“Still Life in Lodz” also takes audiences deep into the once thriving Jewish community of Lodz. Jewish culture has been at the core of this once great center of textile manufacturing—still\nfilled with well-preserved factories\, grand apartment buildings and industrial magnates’ palaces—since it came to the fore in the 19th century. \nFor a time\, the city hosted Poland’s second largest Jewish population. Then\, in 1939\, German troops rolled into Lodz\, annexing it to the Third Reich. Soon after\, Nazis undertook an unthinkably inhumane plan: driving nearly 200\,000 Jews into an overcrowded\, 1.5 square-mile area that would become known as the Lodz Ghetto\, sealing the people inside with barbed wire\, leaving\nthem to fend for themselves amidst hunger\, forced labor and deportations to concentration camps. \nIn 1944\, the entire surviving population of Lodz Ghetto was “liquidated” to Auschwitz. Yet even mass catastrophe could not stop Lodz’s Jewish life. With an astonishing fortitude\, thousands returned after the War—including Lilka’s parents\, courageously saved by Polish Gentiles—determined to restart the community. Rising antisemitism would again shrink the population in the 50s and 60s\, but there remains today a small but resolute Jewish community in the contemporary city\, keeping the heritage going. \nFor Lilka\, Paul and Roni\, diving into the riddles and secrets of Lodz’s past brings new personal revelations. But it also opens a way forward. For they each believe that a brighter future can be built by truly honoring the voices that still speak from Lodz’s streets and walls…and from a painting that even in stillness was able to contain some of the vast beauty\, wonders and sorrows of an entire century. \nSlawomir Grünberg\, Producer/Director\nPhotograph by Jerzy Maciej Koba \nSlawomir Grünberg is an Emmy Award–winning documentary producer\, director and cameraman. Born in Poland\, he graduated from the Polish Film School in Lodz before emigrating to the United States in 1981. \nHe has since directed and produced over 45 documentary films spanning a broad range of topic and issues.  In addition to Still Life In Lodz\, they include Karski & The Lords of Humanity\, Castaways\, The Peretzniks\, Portraits of Emotion\, Coming Out In Poland\, The Legacy of Jedwabne and Saved By Deportation.  \nGrünberg‘s acclaimed documentary School Prayer: A Community At War aired on PBS stations and garnered an Emmy Award. Among his awards\, Grünberg has received the Guggenheim Fellowship\, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and the Soros Justice Media Fellowship. His credits as director of photography include: Legacy\, an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary feature in 2001\, and Sister Rose’s Passion\, which won Best Short Doc at Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short in 2005. \nAn English edition of the book Sławomir Grünberg—A Man with the Camera by Barbara Grünberg\, will be published in April of 2021.  \nRoni (Halpern) Ben Ari\nPhotograph by Jerzy Maciej Koba \nRoni (Halpern) Ben Ari\, an internationally acclaimed photographer\, and a multimedia artist was born and lives in Israel. Her exhibition Loom|Father|Requiem was shown at the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz and the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. Her grandfather\, Moshe Halpern\, was a weaver of jacquard in pre-war Lodz and her father\, Abraham Halpern\, continued the family tradition in Israel. Roni sees herself as a weaver of memories from the looms’ DNA. \nThank you to our partners:
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SUMMARY:L.G.B.T.Q. Rights in Israel | Bechazit: On The Frontline - Driving Social Change in Israel
DESCRIPTION:This program will be offered on Zoom. Registrants only need to RSVP once to be registered for the entire series.Classrooms Without Borders is embarking our newest Israel seminar which we are calling “Bachazit” – On The Frontline. In our upcoming 6 sessions we will highlight challenges facing Israel and the individuals or organizations that are grappling with the issues at hand. We will illuminate subjects such as the integration of minority groups into the high-tech sector\, the struggle for L.G.B.T.Q. rights\, programs that assist Israelis injured during their military service\, the fight against racism in Israeli society and more. \nTuesday\, May 25: L.G.B.T.Q. Rights in Israel\nIn certain areas Israel is a leader in L.G.B.T.Q. rights (e.g. in the I.D.F. – the Israeli Army)\, but in others is trailing most of the rest of the “enlightened” countries (e.g. marriage). We will meet different representatives from the community and learn about what is going on in Israel today and how it compares with the U.S\nJoining us are: Daniel Jonas and Hila Peer \nDaniel Jonas \nDaniel directs the spokesmanship and public relations array at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is a communications consultant with great experience in the third sector and academe. He is an Orthodox Jew\, born in Jerusalem\, where he lives with his husband\, Uri. Daniel has an MA in Jewish history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His thesis focused on the homoerotic aspect of Sabbatean philosophy. After the Tel Aviv gay center shooting in August 2009\, he increased his efforts on behalf of the LGBTQ community in general and the religious LGBTQ community in particular. He joined Havruta\, an organization of religiously inclined Jewish Gay people\, first as a committee member and spokesperson and then as chair of the organization for six years. In recent years he has broadened his activity to additional political and social areas: He ran for city council on the Meretz ticket and was the director of Yeru-Shalem—The Coalition for a Pluralist Jerusalem and the spokesperson of Bimkom—Planners for Planning Rights. \nHila Peer\, 35 born and raised in Tel -Aviv. formerly the chairwoman of Aguda-The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel. Peer is a cisgender lesbian social activist who believes that true change goes through the Knesset corridors. her previous position was as the vice president of the Aids Task Force and she currently manages an initiative for medical clowns in hospitals. \nPAST SESSIONS:\nTuesday\, May 11: Meet the Ethiopians\nIt has been 30 years since the last mass wave of Jews arrived in Israel from Ethiopia. Their ongoing absorption in Israel has had its ups and downs. We will meet members of the community who have main incredible achievements (on any scale) but we will also put a spotlight on what is not working and what needs to be done to make Israel a more accepting\, equitable society. \nJoining us for this program are: Rabbi Sharon Shalom\, Pnina Agenyahu\, Avishai Tzagahon\, and Tuvia Hezkiyahu \nRabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom\nRabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom (born in Ethiopia\, 1973) is a lecturer and Jewish writer. He is a Rav of one of the Tzohar “Open Communities” in Kiryat Gat. He grew up with the name Zaude Tesfay in a Jewish community in the North of Ethiopia. He works as a Rabbi in Merkaz Shapira Or Meofir special program for Ethiopian emigrants. Rabbi Dr. Sharon is the Head of the International Center for Study of Ethiopian Jewry\, and a Jewish Studies Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities\, Ono Academic College. \nPnina Agenyahu-Director of Partnership Together Network\, Connecting the Jewish People unit at the Jewish agency for Israel. \nPnina served as the Director of Interfaces and Synergy at the Strategic and planning unit of the Jewish agency for Israel after completing four years of Shlichut as Jewish agency senior Shlicha of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington between 2013-2017. In her previous position\, she served as Director of the Hillel Center at Tel Aviv University\, where she worked to promote a broad and diverse discourse of Jewish-Israeli social culture among students and young adults. Pnina has extensive experience in public speaking and teaching and she was invited to speak in many conferences all over the world. She is an activist involved in several volunteer endeavors in Israel\, aimed at social change\, including as a founding partner of the “Uru” movement\, an international task force for Jewish peoplehood by the New York Federation and the Nadav Foundation\, and one of the leaders in promoting the Sigd- Jewish Ethiopian holiday to become a national holiday.  nina serves as a board member and director in various organizations\, as Nativ organization\, the board of directors of the Hologab Theater\, the Hanan Einur Foundation and was appointed by the Minister of Education of Israel as a public representative on Israel’s Council for Higher Education. In 2012 Pnina was the recipient of The Richard M. Joel Exemplar of Excellence Award by Hillel International. In 2014\, as Israel marked 66 years of independence with a tribute to women\, Pnina was named by Haaretz as one of 66 Israeli influential women you should know. In 2016 Pnina was the recipient of the Ted B. Farber Professional Excellence Award for her work on the Israel Engagement Fellowship for Teens. Pnina holds a BA from Hebrew university in Jewish History and Sociology\, MA in political and public leadership from Tel Aviv University\, and she is a graduate of The Mandel Program for Excellence – a new initiative for the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Mandel Foundation. \nPnina is married to Avi and they have 3 little kids Eitan\, Erez and Ella. \nAvishai Malso Tzagahon \nAvishai made Aliya from Ethiopia to Israel with his family in 1984\, through Sudan in Operation Moses. Avishai is one of 4 siblings\, he grew up in Haifa region and lives today in the city of Ramle-Lod.\nFollowing his military service Avishai began his Academic studies\, completing his bachelor’s degree in Filmmaking from Sapir College in Sderot. In 2011\, he published a book about the History of Ethiopian Jews in Amharic\, he plans to publish the book in additional languages this coming year.\nFrom 2006 to 2012 Avishai worked at SPNI- Israeli Nature Protection Society as a coordinator. During his university studies\, Avishai founded together with a group of friends and fellow social activists\, a Voluntary organization called “VOIC – Voice of Israeli Communities.” This organization is focused on preventing abuse and exploitation of young women at-risk\, by older men. The organization is still running on a voluntary basis and Avishai serves as CEO.\nAvishai joined Friends by Nature (FBN) in 2012. He works as a FBN countrywide communities director\, runs the multi-cultural trainings at the organization and is a member of the growing community Garin in Lod.\nAdditionally\, since 2011 Avishai started a film company “Studio 1” and acts as its director. And\, in 2015\, Avishai  founded the  LSFF- Lod Social Film Festival\,  an international film festival that emphasizes social issues.\nAvishai’s dream is to see the Ethiopian Israeli community take responsibility for itself as equal and productive members of Israeli society. \nTuvia Hezkiyahu \nTuvia Hezkiyahu was born in Gondar\, Ethiopia in 1977 and made Aliyah in 1980 via Sudan. He was raised in Beersheba and studied in a religious boarding school in Ra’anana. Within that framework\, Tuvia participated in a mission to the U.S. through the ADL and is still a member of the organization. \nIn 1996 Tuvia studied film studies in Sapir College and was subsequently conscripted into the I.D.F. serving as a military photographer. From that point until today\, Tuvia has been working as a film director\, editor and cinematographer. In 2003\, Tuvia joined Fasildan Productions\, soon becoming central to this Ethiopian managed company. In 2007 Tuvia was a partner in the establishment of the Israeli Ethiopian TV channel – IETV. Tuvia has edited several documentary films dealing with the Israeli-Ethiopian community and has become one of the outstanding producers in this field. \nTuvia aspires to document the community’s past and history and to pass it on to future generations. \nIn certain areas Israel is a leader in L.G.B.T.Q. rights (e.g. in the I.D.F. – the Israeli Army)\, but in others is trailing most of the rest of the “enlightened” countries (e.g. marriage). We will meet different representatives from the community and learn about what is going on in Israel today and how it compares with the U.S  \nTuesday\, April 27: Tsofen – Building High-Tech in the Arab Society\nWe will learn about the difficulties facing the Arab citizens of Israel to obtain good employment\, particularly in the flourishing high-tech sector and an N.G.O. created by Jewish and Arab high-tech entrepreneurs and economists to advance this agenda. \nJoining us: \nMs Revital Duek\, Co-CEO  \nRevital joined Tsofen in September\, as a co-CEO alongside Sami Saadi. She brings over 20 years of hi-tech experience in both engineering and managerial positions. Prior to joining Tsofen she was Executive Director of Atid Plus. Duek holds a BSc from the Technion\, an MBA from Bar Ilan University\, and is a PhD Candidate in Gender Studies at Bar Ilan University. She is also a Mandel Institute alumna and an IVLP alumna.   \n“I am committed to promoting under-represented groups in STEM through fostering cross-sector dialogue and partnerships\, with the goal of increasing equal opportunities and freedom of choice”―Revital Duek.  \nMs Naama Nagar\, Director of Development  \nNaama has fifteen years’ experience working in civil society in Israel and the US. Prior to joining Tsofen\, she was a resource development consultant at Minuf Group\, supporting a range of social change organizations dedicated to socio-economic development\, human rights\, and shared society for Jews and Arabs in Israel. Naama holds a BA in Jewish Thought and Philosophy from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics\, and studied towards a PhD degree (ABD) in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \nDr Ramzi Halabi―Chairman of the Board \nDr. Halabi\, Brigadier-General (Res) in the IDF\, is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University as well as a strategic consultant\, active in promoting equal economic opportunities for the Israeli Arab. In the past Dr. Halabi served as Mayor of the Regional Council of Daliat-al-Carmel\, Director of the Arab Business Club\, and Head of the IDF Salary and Pensions Department. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Tel Aviv University. \nSunday\, April 11: Ami Ayalon – From Commander to Peacemaker\nDuring the week of Israel Independence Day\, we will meet with Ami Ayalon\, the former decorated commander of the Naval commandos (the Israeli version of Navy Seals) and subsequently the former commander of the Israeli Navy\, former head of the Shin-Bet (Israel’s Internal Security Service)\, former member of Parliament and former government minister. Ami is also a leading voice for making peace between Israel and the Palestinians. We will learn what lead a man who spent his entire professional life fighting terror to befriend some of his enemies and to promote a genuine peace between the warring peoples. \nAdmiral (Ret.) Ami Ayalon \nAdmiral (ret.) Ayalon is a former director of the Israel Security Agency (the Shin Bet) and a former commander of Israel’s Navy. He has served as a cabinet minister and a member of the Knesset. Along with Sari Nusseibeh\, he has headed the ‘People’s Voice’ peace initiative in 2002.  \nAyalon is one of the founders of ‘Blue White Future’\, a non-partisan political  movement\, committed to securing the future of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state through facilitating an inclusive discourse to promote a two state solution.  \nBetween the years 2011-2016 Ayalon has served as Chairman of the Executive Committee at the university of Haifa and until recently he also served as senior research fellow and Director of the Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Program on National Security and Democracy at the Israel Democracy Institute.   \nCurrently Ayalon serves as the Chairman of AKIM Israel (the National  Association for the Habilitation of Children and Adults with Intellectual  Disabilities). He is also the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy & Strategy.  \nAvi Ben-Hur \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi moved to Israel in 1983. Currently\, he is on the faculty of the University of Haifa Tourism School\, an examiner for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism\, and the Director of Education of Classrooms Without Borders. \nAn eclectic Israeli educator specializing in Land of Israel studies\, the history of Jerusalem\, the Arab-Israeli conflict and Holocaust studies\, Avi’s expertise is in integrating ideas and knowledge from various disciplines into a comprehensive and coherent narrative.
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SUMMARY:“Ethics of Trauma\, Memory\, and Public Art” with Dr. Karen Frostig\, Professor and Founding Director\, Locker of Memory memorial project
DESCRIPTION:On Cambodia’s National Day of Remembrance\, Professor Karen Frostig will discuss the trauma of memory\, and the history of memorial culture\, following genocide in three cities Cambodia\, Vienna and Riga. Slide presentations will compare and contrast how these three countries have negotiated national histories of genocide. Special focus will be on the Locker of Memory Memorial to the victims of the Jungfernhof concentration camp\, an endangered site\, currently under development.\nDr. Karen Frostig\, Professor and Founding Director\, Locker of Memory memorial project  \nProf. Karen Frostig\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of the Locker of Memory memorial project at the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Riga\, which she established in 2019.  Developed as a multi-media\, transnational project dealing with forgotten memory\, the project combines history with art\, science and technology. Karen is Professor of Art at Lesley University\, a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University\, and an international public memory artist\, cultural historian\, writer\, and director of The Vienna Project (2013-2014). Areas of scholarship include traumatic memory\, Holocaust studies\, feminist theory\, civic engagement\, and community activism. Karen is the granddaughter of two victims deported to the camp\, and holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Republic of Austria. https://www.lockerofmemory.com
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/ethics-of-trauma-memory-and-public-art-with-dr-karen-frostig-professor-and-founding-director-locker-of-memory-memorial-project/
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SUMMARY:"Social Justice and the Holocaust" interactive session for teachers and students
DESCRIPTION:Social Justice and the HolocaustThe Holocaust occurred 80 years ago and decimated the Jews of Europe. It is an unprecedented example of extreme genocide fueled by hatred and racism. Echoes & Reflections is committed to partnering with educators to foster confidence and amplify the skills needed to teach about the Holocaust in a comprehensive and meaningful way. We’ve curated the following programs and materials to help initiate important discussions and respond to students’ difficult questions.\nWhat are the lessons to be learned from this violent and barbaric episode in history?\nHow do we apply these lessons to modern day society to ensure a more equitable environment for people of all religions and race?\nJoin Sheryl Ochayon\, Program Director of Echoes & Reflections at Yad Vashem\, for an interactive session for teachers and students. \nSheryl Ochayon \nSheryl Ochayon is Project Director of Echoes and Reflections for Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. The program helps teachers and students understand\, process and navigate the complexities of the Holocaust using dynamic materials. As an expert in women and the Holocaust and a dynamic educator\, Ochayon speaks at seminars and international conferences. She has presented most recently at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach. She earned her law degree from Harvard University and practiced law in New York before making Aliyah.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/social-justice-and-the-holocaust-interactive-session-for-teachers-and-students/
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