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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Game Changers with Director Noam Sobovitz and Professor Zimeremann
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Game Changers\n\n\nSynopsis \nHow did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust\, against insurmountable emotional and political barriers and threats of terror\, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with former German and Israeli footballers\, historians\, and diplomats\, along with rare archival materials\, the film examines the power of personal friendships to bring down the wall between nations\, and of football\, to pave the way between adversaries. \nNoam Sobovitz: Director \n \nNoam Sobovitz is a young-generation Israeli filmmaker and “Game Changers” is his debute feature doc. A graduate of Tel Aviv University film school\, Noam was the editorial producer of a docu-series about the ultra-orthodox media in Israel “The Right Not to Know” for KAN 11. His film “Homecoming” for HOT won the best short film at Astra Film Festival. \n \n\n \n \nThank you to our partners
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SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry
DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nOur 3rd Session will feature \nWhy Should We Care? \nThe Holocaust and Public Humanities \nwith Professor Björn Krondorfer \n  \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nWhile we are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\, we want to stay alert to the fact that for students learning about it today\, this history is more than three generations ago. We should not assume that either students\, teachers or the general public easily connect to the history and legacy of the Holocaust. Krondorfer will talk about his experiences with Public Humanities projects that help to connect us to the Holocaust. \n \nProf Bjorn Krondorfer \nBjörn Krondorfer is Regents’ Professor and the Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University. As Endowed Professor of Religious Studies\, he also teaches in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. He received his Ph.D. at Temple University\, Philadelphia. His field of expertise is religion\, gender\, and culture\, and (post-) Holocaust and reconciliation studies. His scholarship helped to define the field of Critical Men’s Studies in Religions. \nIn 2007-08\, he was guest professor at the Institute of Theology and the History of Religion at the Freie University Berlin\, Germany\, and he held the status of visiting Faculty Affiliate at the University of the Free State\, South Africa. He received a Senior Research Fellowship at the Vrije University in Amsterdam (2016/2017) and is the recipient of the Norton Dodge Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievements. He is currently the VP of the “Association of Public Religious and Intellectual Life” (APRIL) and in 2020 was elected chair of the “Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Human Rights Studies.” He has been invited to speak\, present his research\, and facilitate intercultural seminars in Armenia\, Australia\, Austria\, Belgium\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Canada\, Finland\, Germany\, Italy\, Israel & Palestine\, Poland\, South Africa\, South Korea\, Switzerland\, The Netherlands\, United Kingdom\, and the United States \nAs director of the Martin-Springer Institute\, he has organized several international academic symposia. He has mentored the creation of several exhibits: Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto; Resilience: Women in Flagstaff’s Past and Present; and the permanent installation of a Berlin Wall exhibit at NAU. He has curated the art exhibitions Wounded Landscapes (2014) and Echoes of Loss: Artistic Responses to Trauma (2018). In 2019\, he has been awarded a one-month residential fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute on the theme of “truth and reconciliation.” \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23\, 2023 Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023 Eli M. Rosenbaum and Dr. Tamir Hod  on Achieving Legal Accountability for WWII Nazi Crimes: Experiences of the Israel National Police and US Department of Justice 
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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring:\nCharles Gallagher S.J.\,  on Nazis in Copley Square\n  \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n \nFather Gallagher is a Professor of History at Boston College who has written an  important book about Nazi activities – German and American Nazi  activities – in Boston. It is a major study of how German government officials and Nazi allies in America \, most especially the  German American Bund worked in tandem to try to undermine US support for Britain and for Jews and to strengthen American isolationism in the crucial pre-war years. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nMay 17th 2023 featuring’s Session: A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Air Born
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Air Born:\nwith Liat Eini-Netzer & moderator Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nA fascinating little-known historical tale is stirringly recounted in Air Born\, an inspiring documentary that brings the story of the children who grew up in Israeli air force bases housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s.  \nIn a civilian housing complex surrounded by a bustling military base where his father served\, director Yoram Ivry recalls his childhood protected by a fence and a guard with an endless feeling of freedom and security\, full of dramatic events that influenced his life and the lives of so many other children who grew up in the shadow of wars.  \nCelebrating the heroism and derring-do attitude of Israeli pilots\, Air Born also touchingly conveys a valuable history lesson that is both informative and inspirational. \nLiat Eini-Netzer is a senior partner at B. Levinbook & Co. \n \nMs. Eini-Netzer lives in Tel Aviv\, married and mother of 3 children. \nMs. Eini-Netzer has 30 years of experience in every aspect of civil and commercial litigation\, in all courts\, and in all areas of substantive law. She has represented clients including leading corporations in Israel and abroad\, the majority of banks in Israel\, overseas banks\, various financial bodies\, institutions\, public companies\, and more. \nMs. Eini-Netzer also possesses outstanding specialist expertise and experience in banking regulation. In addition\, her unique skills ideally position her to advise service providers\, primarily banks\, and represent them in standard form contracts. \nFurthermore\, Ms. Eini-Netzer provides pro bono legal representation and assistance for non-profit organizations that strive to advance worthy causes. She also lectures at various forums and seminars on a range of subjects\, including banking law. \nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies.
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SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry
DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nMarch Session  \nAchieving Legal Accountability for WWII Nazi Crimes: Experiences of the Israel National Police and US Department of Justice\n  \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah International (GSI) and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nEli M. Rosenbaum will be talking about some of the experiences he has had prosecuting Nazis in the US.  He would explore some of the challenges the US Department of Justice has had to deal\, such as finding documents\, witnesses\, and more years and decades after the crimes were committed\, in another country and continent. \nEli M. Rosenbaum  \n  Photo credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum\n \nEli M. Rosenbaum is the longest serving investigator and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals and other human rights violators in world history.  He has served since 2010 as Director of Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP).  In June 2022\, he was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to serve concurrently as Counselor for War Crimes Accountability\, tasked with coordinating efforts across the Justice Department and with other federal agencies and authorities abroad to hold accountable persons responsible for war crimes and other atrocities committed in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked invasion.  Those efforts are spearheaded by DOJ’s newly created War Crimes Accountability Team\, which he heads and which draws on the extensive expertise of HRSP staff\, supplemented by contributions of professionals in other Justice Department components.  A veteran 37-year Justice Department prosecutor\, Rosenbaum served initially as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI)\, eventually serving as OSI’s Director from 1995 to 2010\, when OSI was merged into the newly created HRSP.  OSI was responsible for identifying\, investigating\, and taking legal action against perpetrators of World War II-era Nazi crimes of persecution\, and its mission was later expanded to include persons complicit in human rights crimes committed in post-WWII conflicts.  He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania\, where he earned undergraduate and MBA degrees\, and Harvard Law School.  He has received numerous awards for his work\, including the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and the “Heroes in Blue” award of the Anti-Defamation League. \nTamir’s focus will be on Israel Police Unit for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes – Holocaust Survivors’ Legal Retribution.  \nIn 1958\, the Central Office of Judicial Administration for the investigation of Nazi crimes was established in Germany. Documenting the actions of Nazi criminals in preparation for their trial brought the bureau’s representatives to contact the Israeli Police in order to help them gather evidence from Holocaust survivors residing in the country. Consequently\, a police unit was needed to deal with the increasing number of inquiries from Germany. For that purpose\, the unit for the investigation of Nazi crimes was established in the Israeli Police. Two years later\, Adolf Eichmann was captured and brought to Israel. This event deeply affected the sentiments of Israeli society toward the Holocaust. One of the impacts was Holocaust survivors who contacted the unit requesting to provide their testimonies. \nMany of the appeals included names of Nazi criminals who could potentially be located and prosecuted. The special police unit comprised almost completely of Holocaust survivors. The survivors played an important role in collecting and documenting the historical records available to us today. Many of the unit members had lost their families in the Holocaust. It may be conjectured that they sought vengeance upon those who committed the crimes. Nonetheless\, if indeed they had such feelings\, they were translated into long hours of detailed legal work that would lead to proper legal procedures through which it would be possible to bring the perpetrators to justice. \nDr. Tamir Hod \n \nDr. Tamir Hod is a historian in the field of World War II and the Holocaust\, as well as the impact of Holocaust remembrance on Israeli society. The topic of his doctoral thesis was the Demjanjuk trial case in Israel\, under the guidance of Prof. Hanna Yablonka. Dr. Hod researched the role the Ukrainian collaborators played in the Treblinka extermination camp. These days\, Tamir is working on a book about the Nazi Crimes Investigations Unit in the Israeli Police. The unit\, which was founded in 1960\, was mainly composed of Holocaust survivors and contributed greatly to various trials in different places around the world against Nazi criminals and their collaborators. Dr. Tamir Hod teaches at Tel Hai Academic College and Western Galilee Academic College. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23\, 2023 Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust\n\nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC
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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMarch 15th 2023\nRefuge Must Be Given\,\nEleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust\n  \nFeaturing: John Sears \n \nJohn Sears’s special interests include landscape history as well as the lives and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. \nSears served as executive director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute from 1986 until 1999 and as associate editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers from 2000–2007. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. I appeared in 2007. Before joining the Roosevelt Institute\, he taught at Tufts\, Boston University\, and Vassar. \nSears divides his time between Northampton\, MA and Hawley\, a hilltown in Western Massachusetts where his paternal ancestors settled in the late 1700s. He grows trees and produces maple syrup on the land he owns. As a board member of the Sons & Daughters of Hawley\, the town’s historical society\, he helped create Hawley’s Old Town Common historic site. Sears served on the Hawley selectboard from 2013 until 2017. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Disability History Museum. \nBOOK SUMMARY: \nJohn F. Sears\, Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt\, the Jewish Plight and the Founding of Israel (West Lafayette\, IN: Purdue University Press\, 2022) pp. 327. \nThroughout Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein six hour documentary America and the Holocaust one name kept being mentioned time and again\, Eleanor Roosevelt who in her column My Day\, public statements\, public activities and private exchanges was a fierce advocate of admitting Jewish refugees to the United States in the years when their admission was the difference between life and death. John Sears who has directed the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in the 1980s and 90s and edited Eleanor Roosevelt’s papers\, which were published in 2007 has written an important book detailing her work on behalf of Jewish refugees during her years as First Lady and then\, perhaps more importantly and more effectively in her public career after the death of her husband on April 12\, 1945\, when no longer constrained by the limitations of her role and her marriage she could speak her mind\, lend her name and energies to the post-war refugee crisis. Eleanor Roosevelt then became a fierce advocate for the creation of the Jewish State and was an integral part of the efforts 75 years ago this week to pass the November 19\, 1947 United Nations Resolution supporting the establishment of a separate Jewish and Arab State in Mandate Palestine. \nIt wasn’t supposed to happen quite that way. Judging from her childhood upbringing and the antisemitism that characterized elite\, monied WASP society\, Eleanor Roosevelt was a young antisemite. One can go through her early writings\, family history and see a hatred of Jews shared by her social class\, freely expressed\, seldom condemned\, widely assumed. Ironically\, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s family was far more accepted of Jews who were business colleagues of his father as well as neighbors in Hyde Park. Yet by the time that FDR became Governor – Jews were an essential part of his coalition – and well before he became President Eleanor’s views had changed and as her social circle widened  and her experience broadened\, she enjoyed enduring and close friendships with Jews\, most especially Jewish women\,’ \nUnlike her husband who say things in political terms\, Eleanor Roosevelt saw things in deeply personal terms\, perhaps a reflection of their genders\, perhaps also a reflection of her innate shyness. FDR was outgoing and gregarious. He talked more than he listened. ER visited many places he could not go because of his physical limitations \, she not only saw more but listened more and reflected upon what she heard. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nApril\, May and June Guests COMING SOON\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring’s Session: A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht:The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews”  Featuring: Rick Richman\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Speer Goes to Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion: With Director Vanessa Lapa and Producer Tomer Eliav moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nSpeer Goes to Hollywood \nAlbert Speer is an enigma. The highest-ranking Nazi in Nuremberg to be spared the death sentence\, Speer was one of Hitler’s closest confidants and his chief architect\, tasked with rebuilding Berlin as the capital of a global empire. Appointed Minister of Armaments and War production in 1942\, Speer was responsible for 12 million slave laborers. And yet\, even now\, he has the reputation of being the ‘good Nazi’ – a myth he carefully constructed himself. The film meets its protagonist in 1971\, while Speer was working on a screenplay for Paramount Pictures\, based on his memoir “Inside the Third Reich”.  \nBased on forty hours of previously unheard audio cassettes\, recorded by screenwriter Andrew Birkin\, it features Speer’s callous attempt to whitewash his past with a feature film. The audio narrative is supplemented by rare archival footage\, from before and during World War II\, during the Nuremberg Trials and later\, during Speer’s retirement as a semi-reclusive country gentleman. At times juxtaposed and at times interwoven\, those three timelines form the narrative of the film that provides ironic and chilling tension. Speer Goes to Hollywood is the film that Speer never made. Thanks to the cassettes\, he is the narrator of his own life story\, but in a way that he never imagined. The rare archival materials selected to illustrate his account offer us a chance to look beyond his words to ponder whether this eloquent but ultimately self-serving narcissist was recording history or recording his story? \n\n\nPress Note\nSpeer Goes to Hollywood offers an intriguing look at the inner workings of a man responsible for the deaths of millions\, yet who consistently strove to be portrayed as an innocent amongst the guilty. This new film by director Vanessa Lapa\, award-winning director of The Decent One (2014)\, is a cautionary tale of how media such as film can be manipulated easily to shape the way that history is remembered. \nAbout the Director Vanessa Lapa \nVanessa Lapa is an Israeli Academy-winning director and producer. She started as an accomplished journalist\, who produced and directed over 100 news reports for Israeli TV. In 2006 she founded Realworks Ltd.\, an independent production company\, specializing in documentary film. Her first TV documentary\, Olmert: Concealed Documentary (2009)\, about Israel’s former Prime Minister was hailed as a uniquely insightful achievement in cinéma verité. Eight years in the making\, the award- winning documentary The Decent One (2014) – a glimpse into the mind of SS chief Heinrich Himmler\, based on his personal diaries – was officially selected for Panorama at the Berlinale. \nVanessa returned to the Berlinale in 2020\, officially selected for “Berlinale Specials”\, with Speer Goes to Hollywood: a feature documentary aboutanother Nazi official – Reichsminister Albert Speer\, one of Hitler’s closest confidants – told in his own words. She was awarded “Best Director” from the Jerusalem Film Festival 2021. Moreover\, the film won “Best Documentary” at the Israeli Academy Awards (“Ophir Awards”) that same year. \n\n\n\nTomer Eliav\, Israeli Academy Award Winning producer. \nBorn and raised in Israel\, graduated as a sound engineer and worked as a sound designer and re-recording mixer at the Mixroom\, the only Dollby Mix stage in Israel for the last 25 years. \nTomer designed and mixed more than 100 features\, documentaries and short films\, lectured for cinema students\, and is a member of the Israeli Academy. Tomer is a co-owner at Realworks Studios\, a production company and post production studio in Tel Aviv. \n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. \n\n\n\n \n\n \nThank you to our partners:\n\n\n\n\nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
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SUMMARY:DISCOVERING THE "JEWISH JESUS"
DESCRIPTION:In this three-session course\, we will seek to uncover the figure of “Jesus the Jew” from the pages of the New Testament.\n\n\nPresumably\, this should not be difficult. After all\, the New Testament contains a great deal of information about the life and teachings of Jesus. \nHowever\, according to most academic scholars of the New Testament\, there is a chronological gap which spans some forty to seventy years between the death of Jesus and the writing of the Four Gospels\, the primary record of his life and teachings. This can be an obstacle in our quest to uncover\, as Amy-Jill Levine\, a prominent Jewish scholar of the New Testament puts it\, “the man from Nazareth as he was understood in his own context and as he understood himself.” \nWe will begin by recreating the Jewish milieu of Jesus’ world – in other words\, the period of late Second Temple Judaism. Against this backdrop\, we will draw on the Gospel material to examine the nature of Jesus’ relationship to Judaism. \nIn the second session\, we will explore the vexed question of the Gospel writers’ portrayal of Jesus’ relationship to the Jews of his day and consider whether\, as some would argue\, the New Testament is an anti-Jewish document. \nThe final session will take place a month or so before the advent of Passover and Easter. Accordingly\, we will closely examine whether there is any substance to the commonly held view that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Passover meal \n\nPaul Forgasz \n\n\nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. \n\n1st Session February 7th 2023\n2nd Session February 21 2023\n3rd Session March 7 2023\n\nThis is a 3 session course: You only need to register ONCE and will be sent the ZOOM link before each session. \nWe are offering PA Educators 5 Professional Development hours for attending the entirety of this course.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T153000
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SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry
DESCRIPTION:A NEW 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nOur 1st Session will feature Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”.  \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nDr. Robert Krell \n \nRobert Krell C.M.\, M.D.\, F.R.C.P.(C)\nProfessor Emeritus\, Department of Psychiatry\, University of British Columbia \nDr. Robert Krell was born in Holland and survived the Holocaust in hiding. The Krell family moved to Vancouver\, Canada where he obtained an MD from the University of British Columbia and eventually became professor of psychiatry. Dr. Krell was Director of Child Psychiatry and also treated Holocaust survivors and their families as well as Dutch survivors of Japanese concentration camps. \nHe established a Holocaust education program for high school students in 1976\, an audio-visual documentation program recording survivor testimony in 1978 and assisted with the formation of child survivor groups starting in 1982. Dr. Krell served on the International Advisory Council of the Hidden Child Gathering in New York in 1991.\nHe founded the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center which opened in 1994 and which teaches 20\,000 students annually. \nFor his activities in Holocaust education and remembrance\, human rights and social justice\, he has received the State of Israel Bonds Elie Wiesel Remembrance Award\, the Boston University Hillel Lifetime Achievement Award\, the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal\, the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award as well as special recognition from the World Federation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors and Descendants. On December 30\, 2020 he was awarded Canada’s highest civilian honour\, the Order of Canada. \nHe has authored and co-edited ten books\, twenty-one book chapters and over fifty journal articles. His memoir Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor\, Psychiatrist and Teacher was published in 2021. \nPresently his interests remain the psychiatric treatment of aging survivors of massive trauma and participating in programs against racism and prejudice. Dr. Krell is married and has three children and nine grandchildren. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law \nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military \nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T160000
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SUMMARY:DISCOVERING THE "JEWISH JESUS"
DESCRIPTION:In this three-session course\, we will seek to uncover the figure of “Jesus the Jew” from the pages of the New Testament.\n\n\nPresumably\, this should not be difficult. After all\, the New Testament contains a great deal of information about the life and teachings of Jesus. \nHowever\, according to most academic scholars of the New Testament\, there is a chronological gap which spans some forty to seventy years between the death of Jesus and the writing of the Four Gospels\, the primary record of his life and teachings. This can be an obstacle in our quest to uncover\, as Amy-Jill Levine\, a prominent Jewish scholar of the New Testament puts it\, “the man from Nazareth as he was understood in his own context and as he understood himself.” \nWe will begin by recreating the Jewish milieu of Jesus’ world – in other words\, the period of late Second Temple Judaism. Against this backdrop\, we will draw on the Gospel material to examine the nature of Jesus’ relationship to Judaism. \nIn the second session\, we will explore the vexed question of the Gospel writers’ portrayal of Jesus’ relationship to the Jews of his day and consider whether\, as some would argue\, the New Testament is an anti-Jewish document. \nThe final session will take place a month or so before the advent of Passover and Easter. Accordingly\, we will closely examine whether there is any substance to the commonly held view that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Passover meal \n\nPaul Forgasz \n\n\nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. \n\n1st Session February 7th 2023\n2nd Session February 21 2023\n3rd Session March 7 2023\n\nThis is a 3 session course: You only need to register ONCE and will be sent the ZOOM link before each session. \nWe are offering PA Educators 5 Professional Development hours for attending the entirety of this course.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T160000
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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring’s Session\nA Discussion Surrounding \n“Ben Hecht:The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews”  Featuring: Rick Richman\n  \nBen Hecht was a journalist\, author\, essayist\, screenwriter\, polemicist\, Zionist — and a prophet. Learn how this one-man multimedia operation sent the English language into battle on behalf of the European Jews\, at their moment of greatest peril — and forced the Roosevelt Administration to respond. \nFeaturing: Rick Richman \nRick Richman is a resident scholar at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He has written for Commentary\, Mosaic\, The New York Sun\, The Jewish Journal\, The Jewish Press\, The New York Post\, PJ Media\, and other publications\, and is the author of Racing Against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler (Encounter Books\, 2018). \nBOOK SUMMARY: \nAnd None Shall Make Them Afraid recounts the story of how Zionism\, supported by Americanism\, created a modern miracle—told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history. \nThe book presents eight historic figures—four from Europe (Theodor Herzl\, Chaim Weizmann\, Vladimir Jabotinsky\, Abba Eban) and four from America (Louis D. Brandeis\, Golda Meir\, Ben Hecht\, Ron Dermer)—who reflect the intellectual and social revolutions that Zionism and Americanism brought to the world. \nIn some cases\, the stories have been forgotten; in other cases\, misrepresented; in still others\, not yet given their full due. But they are central to the miraculous recovery of the Jewish people in the twentieth century. Taken together\, they recount both a people’s return to its place among the nations and the impact on history that a single individual can make. \nMore than a century ago\, after studying the early Zionist texts\, Louis Brandeis concluded that Jews were the “trustees” of their history\, charged to “carry forward what others\, in the past\, have borne so well.” The stories in this book—recording the extraordinary efforts of extraordinary individuals that created the modern state of Israel and then sustained it—reinforce Brandeis’s observation for our own time. \nThe story of Zionism\, and its interaction with Americanism\, is a continuing one. The book is thus not only about the past\, but the present and future as well. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nMarch 15th 2023 John Sears: Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust. \nApril\, May and June Guests COMING SOON\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
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SUMMARY:My First Sony
DESCRIPTION:A one-man play featuring Israeli actor-director Roy Horovitz\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation present My First Sony\, an award-winning monodrama\, which has toured Israel and the globe to great acclaim and rave reviews for more than 20 years. Based on Benny Barbash’s bestseller by the same name\, the play tells the story of Yotam\, an eleven-year-old child\, who becomes obsessed with documenting his life after receiving a children’s tape recorder\, his “First Sony.” Yotam records events involving his family\, and we hear their voices\, their struggles and heartbreak. He presents his findings with naïve honesty and humor\, which help to soften the painful coming-of-age played so expertly. \n\n\nTHIS IS AN IN PERSON EVENT \nRodef Shalom Congregation \n4905 Fifth Ave\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15213 \nLevy Hall \nSuggested Donation is $10. Reserved Seating $25\n \nPlease make a donation and support CWB to keep transformational educational programming free to the schools and students. \nMake your donation to reserve your seat now! \nhttps://secure.givelively.org/donate/jewish-federation-of-greater-pittsburgh/suggested-donations-my-first-sony \nAND DON”T FORGET TO ALSO REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE  \nOn The Left Hand Side Panel \n \n\n\nMasks may be required at this performance depending on the COVID levels in Allegheny County. We will inform you of any requirements by February 10\, 2023. \n\n\nIN PARTNERSHIP WITH\n\n\n\nAcclaim for My First Sony: \n” A beautiful and very well acted play… Not a dull moment. Horovitz is sensitive\, natural and convincing. He successfully plays a child without falling into childishness\, and gains sympathy without gushing ‘shmaltz’ ” (The Daily Yediot Aharonot\, Israel) \n“A pleasant surprise. It is beautifully crafted and performed” (Judy Unwin\, Global T.V.\, Canada) \n“A document of real emotion. Affecting production\, performed with sensitivity by Roy Horovitz… ‘MY FIRST SONY’ is not a soap opera. The story feels genuine\, Yotam is every 11-year-old you’ve ever met and the story-teller avoid milking his story for cheap emotions and tears. There will be tears but they will be very real” (Colin Maclean\, EdmontonSun)
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LOCATION:Rodef Shalom Congregation: Levy Hall\, 4905 Fifth Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T150000
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Sabotage: A SNEAK PEAK
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Sabotage: with Director Noa Aharoni\, Illustrator Avi Katz\, moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nJanuary 1945\, less than two weeks before the evacuation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp\, four forced laborers women\, Estusia Wajcblum\, Rosa Robota\, Ella Gartner\, and Regina Safirstein were hanged in public\, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine. \nUnder the horrific inferno of Auschwitz\, Anna Wajcblum Heilman\, Estusia’s sister and the youngest member of the women’s resistance underground writes a diary\, describing how over thirty Jewish women\, forced laborers of the “Union” munition factory\, took part in a dangerous smuggling operation\, stealing small portions of gunpowder from the factory and passing it from one to another until it gets to the Sonderkommando men\, planning a large-scale rebellion. \nOn October 7th 1944\, the rebellion spontaneously erupted and prisoners lit up crematorium no 4. In the SS investigation\, some gunpowder from the “Union” was found and suspicions against the women workers were raised. In the dark basements of Auschwitz\, the SS brutally tortured Estusia\, Regina\, Rosa\, and Ella to obtain information about the revolt.  \nThe four took sole blame for the entire underground activity to protect their friends and sisters and were publicly hanged. \nThrough the eyes of Anna Wajcblum Heilman\, Sabotage tells the day-to-day routine of the camp which consists also of many little moments of camaraderie and friendship between young women shaped under harsh circumstances. \n \n\n \n\n\nNoa Aharoni \nWinner of the Best Documentary Film Award (Forum of Documentary Creators\, Israel). Nominated for the Ophir Award for Best Documentary. Noa Aharoni graduated with a degree in TV and Cinema from Sapir College in 1994. In 2017 her documentary movie “Shadows” about the abuse among the second generation of the Holocaust by their survivor parents\, was selected for the prestigious Docaviv Film Festival and IDFA. “By Summer’s End”\, Noah’s first feature film from 2011 has won a Distribution Award and was nominated for the Awards of the Israeli Academy. The film was screened at Haifa International Film Festival (Honorable Mention) and Rehovot Women Film Festival. \n\n\n\nDirectors Statement:  \nWhen I ask myself what attracted me to the making of the film “Sabotage”\, my answer is unequivocal. The female perspective on the Holocaust\, or if you will\, the heroism of women in the Holocaust. The story of the women and their rebellion has been forgotten from the pages of history\, in this film I seek to continue the process they had begun so long ago\, to give these women faces and names\, and to talk about their courage. This film brings their story to memory and consciousness\, thereby correcting the historical injustice. \nAnother challenge that I wanted to crack is a cinematic challenge. I want to talk about a plot that took place 75 years ago\, with contemporary and interesting aesthetic and cinematic tools. I am a director of both feature films and documentaries and the combination of them in my opinion\, in this film\, is the secret that will bring the viewer to the emotional place I am looking for in my films. \n\n\nAvi Katz \nAvi A. Katz\, aka Avitz\, is a graduate from the School of Visual Arts who made his start working on Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues in New York City. His training in animation is evident in his observational pieces\, which make striking use of color and shading. One of the artist’s favorite subjects to draw is cities\, urban landscapes\, and buildings\, which he enhances with details of people\, streetlights\, skylines\, and electrical wires. The artist’s skill is best displayed in his meticulously created renderings of urban scenes\, which showcase his keen eye. Using predominantly chalk and markers for his illustrations\, Avitz contrasts warm and cold tones with bold strokes of dark color to give his pieces more weight. His unconventional approach to the medium and whimsical art style aim to blur the lines between fine art and graphic design. \nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. \n\n\n\nThank you to our partners:\n\n\n\n\nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-sabotage/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T173000
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SUMMARY:Healing\, Hope and Resiliency: A Pedagogical Tool for Holocaust Education
DESCRIPTION:Ted Comet\, will take us on a journey to view five unique tapestries woven by his late wife\, Shoshana Comet\, Holocaust survivor\, therapist.\n\n\nDemonstration of a unique teaching tool for educators\n\nNOTE: \nThis is an interactive session. Please be aware that Q and A will be embedded in the session\, and participants will be encouraged to have their camera turned on.\n\nJust in the past few years\, Ted Comet\, a 98-year old Jewish community leader\, has welcomed approximately 1\,000 people into his home virtually to view five unique tapestries woven by his late wife\, Shoshana. Shoshana was a Holocaust survivor\, psychotherapist and artist. Each tapestry is a testament to the power of the mind to turn trauma into creative and healing energy. A lifelong friend of Elie Wiesel\, Ted is an eloquent speaking with an inspirational story about suffering\, loss and healing that participants will never forget. \n\n\nIn Partnership With
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/healing-hope-and-resilience-through-art-holocaust-tapestries-tour/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230207T173000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
CREATED:20221209T121404Z
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SUMMARY:DISCOVERING THE "JEWISH JESUS"
DESCRIPTION:In this three-session course\, we will seek to uncover the figure of “Jesus the Jew” from the pages of the New Testament.\n\n\nPresumably\, this should not be difficult. After all\, the New Testament contains a great deal of information about the life and teachings of Jesus. \nHowever\, according to most academic scholars of the New Testament\, there is a chronological gap which spans some forty to seventy years between the death of Jesus and the writing of the Four Gospels\, the primary record of his life and teachings. This can be an obstacle in our quest to uncover\, as Amy-Jill Levine\, a prominent Jewish scholar of the New Testament puts it\, “the man from Nazareth as he was understood in his own context and as he understood himself.” \nWe will begin by recreating the Jewish milieu of Jesus’ world – in other words\, the period of late Second Temple Judaism. Against this backdrop\, we will draw on the Gospel material to examine the nature of Jesus’ relationship to Judaism. \nIn the second session\, we will explore the vexed question of the Gospel writers’ portrayal of Jesus’ relationship to the Jews of his day and consider whether\, as some would argue\, the New Testament is an anti-Jewish document. \nThe final session will take place a month or so before the advent of Passover and Easter. Accordingly\, we will closely examine whether there is any substance to the commonly held view that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Passover meal \n\nPaul Forgasz \n\n\nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. \n\n1st Session February 7th 2023\n2nd Session February 21 2023\n3rd Session March 7 2023\n\nThis is a 3 session course: You only need to register ONCE and will be sent the ZOOM link before each session. \nWe are offering PA Educators 5 Professional Development hours for attending the entirety of this course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/discovering-the-jewish-jesus/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T160000
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SUMMARY:CWB Holocaust Remembrance Day:  2023 Community Wide Teach In
DESCRIPTION:2023 Theme: “Home and Belonging”\n\n\nThe United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.\n  \nOn this annual day of commemoration\, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.\n  \nAt CWB we believe that begins in the classroom.\n  \nWe thank you for all you do to inspire students by promoting universal human values of diversity\, altruism\, forgiveness\, courage\, respect and faith in humanity.\n  \nCWB is curating Resources\, Lesson Plans\, Teaching Tools to facilitate your Classroom Instruction.\nAll Registrants will be sent the curated resources for our Community Wide Teach In!\n\n\n  \nCWB hopes that ALL Educators will teach the lessons of the Holocaust in an effort combat antisemitism\, genocide and hate \,through transformative educational opportunities focused on diversity\, inclusion\, and respect.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/cwb-holocaust-remembrance-day-2023-community-wide-teach-in/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230112T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Liga Terezin
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Liga Terezin with Oded Breda\, Michael Schwartz \, Moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\n“LIGA TEREZIN” is a documentary film ( 2012\, 52 minutes) that tells the incredible story of the soccer league which took place in Ghetto Theresienstadt\, 40 miles North West of Prague (now in the Czech Republic). \nFrom 1942 to 1944\, Jewish prisoners played hundreds of soccer matches on improvised fields set up in the court-yards of the Barracks where they lived. Thousands of spectators watched a mixture of professional and amateur players and briefly escaped the reality of their terrible plight: the hunger\, the sickness and death. All the while they lived in a shroud of fear casted by the terror of the transports that sent people to the “East” and their certain death. \nIn the summer of 1944\, the Nazis made a propaganda film which highlighted the cultural activities in the ghetto. Oded Breda identified his uncle in the soccer sequence and this discovery set him on a quest to uncover information regarding the sport that took place in the ghetto. He interviewed a number of Holocaust survivors who played and watched football in the ghetto as well as a survivor who was on the film’s camera crew. He also watched games in Prague and Amsterdam where he saw the way modern day spectators expressing their anti-Semitic feelings. In Amsterdam he interviewed the Jewish Chairman of Ajax (one of the most famous teams in Europe) who has to contend with the fall out caused by the reaction to the Ajax fans who call themselves\, “The Jews”. \nBreda has harnessed the modern day connection between the Holocaust and Soccer as a vehicle to commemorate the players of the Terezin League. The film illustrates the educational power this opportunity presents when German and Israeli youth soccer players visit Yad Vashem together. \nToday\, soccer is the most watch sport in the world and the love for the ‘Beautiful Game’ has inspired the creators of the film to dedicate it to the players and spectators of ‘LIGA TEREZIN’ \n \n\n \n\n\nOded Breda \nOded is Second Generation to the holocaust. He is married and grandfather. Army rank:Major in Infantry. 2 wars. BA History. High Tech career. Director of Beit Theresienstadt\, Holocaust Museum and Education Center. He is a Julius Hirsch Award winner. Zionist. Amateur Soccer player.\nBeit Theresienstadt director 2009-2015 \n \n\n\nMichael Schwartz \nDirector\, Script \n1987 to present CNN Jerusalem producer. \n“Liga Terezin”\, 2011. Director and Script : Holocaust\, Football and Anti-Semitism. \n \n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur: Scholar in Residence \nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. \n\n\n\nThank you to our partners:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-liga-terezin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion The Partisan with the Leica Camera with Yael Perlov\, Simon Lavee & Moderated by Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion The Partisan with the Leica Camera with Yael Perlov\, Ruth Walk\, Simon Lavee & Moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nA frightened look of a woman\, from a rare self-portrait of a couple\, leads the director to a shocking family story. Hidden secrets revealed when 65-year-old son\, Simon\, discovers that his father\, the photographer Mundek Lukawiecki\, and his mother\, the housewife Hannah Bern\, were the commanders of a Polish assassination squad that operated during the Holocaust. The chilling facts are backed by unique photos taken in the forest by Mundek\, the partisan\, on his Leica camera. \n\n\nYael Perlov \nAs an editor and filmmaker\, Perlov has achieved some very visible success – including a 2001 Ophir Award from the Israeli Film Academy for editing the feature film “Late Marriage.” In 2016\, the documentary “Ben-Gurion\, Epilogue\,” which she edited and produced\, won an Ophir for best documentary. \nCurrently a visiting lecturer at Duke University\, she was in the Boston area earlier this week for a visit sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel to New England. At multiple locations\, she participated in screenings of her films as well as the work of her late father\, David Perlov\, who was known as “the father of Israeli documentary cinema.” \n\n\n\nRuth Walk: Producer \n\nGraduated from the Sam Spiegel Film School Hadassah College\, Jerusalem Her films\, have earned international acclaim\, airing on various international broadcast stations and winning many awards. \nHer works include Golda – A portrait of Golda Meir The Balcony – The story of the Israeli actor Israel Becker\, Holocaust survivor\, painter and filmmaker ; A New Beginning following prisoners in their fight against the drug plague. \nSimon Lavee \n\n\nAged 75 born in Germany Father of four\, grandfather of nine. Residing in Israel since 1948. First Degrees in Law (Bar Ilan University)\, General History (Soviet studies) Middle East History (Tel Aviv University)\, Geography (Tel Aviv University) and Second-degree studies – Business Administration Unisa (not completed). Simon Lavee speaks Hebrew\, English\, German. Polish\, Arabic. Simon Lavee served 28 years in IDF has combat experience as well as intelligence community in Israel and abroad. Retired high ranking IDF intelligence officer \nToday he runs his law office. Former positions \n\n*Director General of Ramat-Gan.\n*Member of the Intelligence community of Israel.\n*Head of the Intelligence of the Military Counter Intelligence.\n*Head of MOD/IDF worldwide Special Assistance operations.\n*Head of MOD/IDF Foreign Relations.\n*Counselor at the Embassy of Israel to South Africa.\n\n \n\n\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. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n  \nThank you to our partner:
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LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221120T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221120T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
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SUMMARY:November 20\, 2022 Children's Village Open House Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about our 2023 Children’s Village Teen Service Program\n\n\nUntil then\, visit our webpage to learn more: https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/seminar/2023-childrens-village-volunteer-to-make-an-impact/
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/november-20-2022-childrens-village-open-house-meeting/
LOCATION:Rodef Shalom Congregation: Levy Hall\, 4905 Fifth Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
CREATED:20221025T174513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T185138Z
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SUMMARY:November 16\, 2022 Germany Close Up Open House and Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Get a first-hand look at the CWB Germany Close Up Seminar!\n\n\nJoin Classrooms Without Borders at our Open House for Germany Close Up 2023 at The Forge in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood. This event is for interested applicants of the Classrooms Without Borders Germany Close Up Travel Study Seminar taking place July 16 – 27\, 2023. Applicants and attendees must be between the ages of 18-39 to attend Germany Close Up and the Open House. \nSpaces for this event are limited. Register today to save your spot! \n\n\nFor more information about Germany Close Up\, please see the seminar page here: https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/seminar/2023-germany-close-up/
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/november-16-2022-germany-close-up-open-house/
LOCATION:The Forge\, 3345 Penn Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15201\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T163000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
CREATED:20220915T005822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T165015Z
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion After Munich
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion After Munich with Francine Zuckerman & Moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nWhether you witnessed it live\, learnt about it or never even heard of the Munich Massacre at all — this event changed your life. September 5th 1972\, the tenth day of the Munich Olympics\, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September stormed the Israeli athletes’ quarters. The world watched live on television as eleven hostages were taken and later killed. \nFour women were directly impacted by that day: An athlete\, a widow\, and two undercover agents. Their lives changed. Their fates redirected. Their well-being and views impacted by the trauma. But they weren’t the only ones. \n\n\nFEATURING! \n \nShaul Ladany: Survivor Of Holocaust and the 1972 Munich Olympics \nThey call him the ultimate survivor: Shaul Ladany lived through a Nazi concentration camp and escaped the massacre of 11 fellow Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. He will join our Film Discussion. \nFrancine Zuckerman \nA former Montrealer now living in Toronto\, Francine’s work as a director is inspired by her profound connection to French Canada. She graduated from film at McGill University; studied directing at Columbia University\, NYC and writing at Script Factory\, London. She has won numerous awards and been recognized at film festivals around the world. Her strong cinematic vision and her love for working with actors is evident in her films\, THE ATWOOD STORIES; PUNCH ME IN THE STOMACH; PASSENGERS and MR. BERNSTEIN and her documentaries HALF THE KINGDOM; EXPOSURE; WE ARE HERE and AFTER MUNICH has taken her to New Zealand\, England\, Sweden\, Poland\, Germany and Israel. \nShe has recently completed her feature documentary AFTER MUNICH about the aftermath of the Munich Olympic massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in 1972 and how four women’s lives are changed forever\, now in distribution with Go2Films\, this year commemorating the 50th anniversary of the massacre. \nShe is in development on a dramatic series based on world renown writer Margaret Atwood’s first novel THE EDIBLE WOMAN with Entertainment One and a feature non-fiction animated co-pro\, ALMA ROSE\, who was born into a famous musical elite family in turn of the century Vienna but her life changes when she’s interned in the dreaded Auschwitz concentration camp but to save her life and the lives of many others\, Alma becomes the conductor of the legendary Auschwitz women’s orchestra. \n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\nThank you to our partners:
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-after-munich/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T170000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
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SUMMARY:November 6\, 2022 Vienna-Prague Study Seminar Open House Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about our 2023 Vienna-Prague Travel Study Seminar!\n\nThis program is only for educators and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in July 2023.\n\n\nUntil then\, visit our webpage to learn more: https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/seminar/2023-vienna-prague-study-seminar/
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/november-6-2022-vienna-prague-study-seminar-open-house-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T153000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
CREATED:20220818T181830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T173555Z
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SUMMARY:November 6\, 2022 Poland Personally Open House Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about our 2023 Poland Personally Travel Study Seminar!\n\nThis program is only for educators and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in June 2023.\n\nUntil then\, visit our webpage to learn more: https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/seminar/2023-poland-personally-a-study-seminar-to-poland/
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/november-6-2022-poland-personally-open-house-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000
DTSTAMP:20260708T150258
CREATED:20220818T182256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T173418Z
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SUMMARY:November 6\, 2022 Marching Down "Freedom's Road" Open House Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about our 2023 Marching Down “Freedom’s Road”: Civil Rights to the Black Freedom Movement Travel Study Seminar!\n\nThis program is only for educators and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in June 2023.\n\n\nUntil then\, visit our webpage to learn more: https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/seminar/marching-down-freedoms-road-civil-rights-to-the-black-freedom-movement-2023/
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/november-6-2022-marching-down-freedoms-road-open-house-meeting/
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Museums of the Future
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \n\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur October Event in this Series: Museums of the Future\nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many books\, among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n \nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nAlice Herscovitch The Montreal Holocaust Museum \n \nAlice Herscovitch is currently a Consultant on Donor and Government Relations at the Montreal Holocaust Museum. She retired as the Museum’s Executive Director in 2019\, after 11 years in which the organisation grew considerably in terms of audience\, programming and funding. Among achievements by the MHM team during her leadership\, the Museum tripled its collection\, more than doubled its visitorship\, developed over 20 pedagogical tools\, created local\, national and international partnerships\, led a national teacher training program\, digitised and catalogued its oral history collection\, and led an initiative which successfully digitised and catalogued almost all Canadian collections of recorded survivor testimony. Faced with increasing interest and growth in its publics\, Ms. Herscovitch currently works with the Museum to assure a major expansion and its relocation to the downtown core. Having garnered significant private and government support\, the new Montreal Holocaust Museum will open in a vibrant downtown neighbourhood in Fall 2025. \nMs. Herscovitch is the former Director of Social Development at the Conférence régionale des élus\, a para-public organization devoted to the social\, economic and cultural development of the Montreal region. She was previously the Executive Director of Project Genesis\, a community advocacy organisation working on issues of social rights of marginalized populations\, from 1987 to 2003. She taught for many years at the McGill School of Social Work in social policy and was a member of the Executive Committee of Centraide of Greater Montreal\, as well as the NDG Community Council and a Board member of the Fondation du Grand Montréal. She has worked for over 30 years with people and organizations to promote progressive change on issues of social justice and to sustain non-profit organisations. \n\nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: Session #1 ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 at 1pm ET/19h00 SAST “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha \nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec). \nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\nMay 26\, 2022 ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’. featuring Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates. \nSeptember 29\, 2022 Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom featuring James Bulgin\, Michael Newman\, & Stephen Smith\n\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 compliance@classroomswithoutborders.org
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T163000
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Reckonings with Roberta Grossman: Writer\, Director and Producer\, Karen Heilig: Producer & July Hodara\, Co-Producer Moderated by Professor Michael Bazyler
DESCRIPTION:In the aftermath of the Holocaust\, the unprecedented destruction and plight of\nsurvivors prompts the unthinkable\n\n\nSynopsis \nThey met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help\, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? \nReckonings explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman\, Reckonings recounts the tense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders. Under the constant threat of violence\, they forged ahead\, knowing it would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement and a step towards healing. \n\n\n \n\n \nRoberta Grossman \nWriter\, Director and Producer \nAn award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice\, Roberta Grossman has written\, directed and produced more than 40 hours of film and television. What sets her films apart are high production values\, beautiful cinematic craftsmanship and inspiring protagonists. Grossman’s films tell stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the name of justice. According to Grossman\, “making a documentary is like pushing Sisyphus’ rock up a steep mountain. The only way to summit is to have a sense of personal responsibility to tell a story that would otherwise remain untold.” \n\n\n\nKaren Heilig \nProducer \nKaren Heilig serves as the Assistant Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference and General Counsel. Since 1999 she has participated in negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German Government\, the Austrian Government and negotiations on unpaid Holocaust era insurance policies. She broke ground as the first female representative for the Claims Conference in negotiations. Understanding 70 years of compensation agreements from a personal\, legal and historical perspective\, inside the negotiating room and interacting with those who negotiated the Luxembourg Agreements – Karen was uniquely positioned to help bring this important film to life. \n\n\n\nJuly Hodara \nCo-Producer \nA native of France\, film producer and storyteller July Hodara completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California\, Berkeley before joining Katahdin Productions in 2011. The first film she produced and directed was Hidden (2006)\, an American adaptation of French documentary Les Enfants Cachés (1998) about Jewish children who survived WWII in hiding. July’s first project at Katahdin Productions was Hava Nagila (The Movie) (2012) with director Roberta Grossman. She stayed on to associate produce Above and Beyond (2014) with producer Nancy Spielberg\, On The Map (2016) with director Dani Menkin\, and Netflix Original 2018 Sundance selection Seeing Allred (2018). She co-produced 2019 Berlinale selection Who Will Write Our History (2018). \nAfter her work on those five award-winning documentary features\, she pursued her Master’s in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts\, graduating in 2020. July founded New Moons Productions in 2019\, a media company through which she develops various projects\, with a particular interest for women’s stories. She came on as co-producer for Katahdin features Vishniac (2023) with director Laura Bialis\, and Reckonings (2022) with the Claims Conference and the German Ministry of Finance as production partners. \n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Michael Bazyler \nProfessor Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. He is the author of seven books and more than two dozen law review articles\, book chapters and essays on subjects covering law and the Holocaust\, restitution following genocide and other mass atrocities\, public international law\, international human rights law\, and international trade law and comparative law. His book\, Holocaust\, Genocide and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World (Oxford University Press) is a winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award. \n \n\n\nThank you to our partners:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T153000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \n\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur September Event in this Series: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom\nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many books\, among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nJames Bulgin \n \nJames Bulgin is Head of Content for the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums. He started work on the project in 2016. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director\, with work in the West End and on national tour. His BA was in English and his MA — for which he was awarded a distinction – is in Holocaust Studies. He is currently completing a PhD under the Crosslands scholarship at Royal Holloway College\, University of London\, on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film. \nMichael Newman \n \nMichael Newman is Chief Executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)\, which represents and supports Holocaust refugees and survivors in Great Britain.\nA previous Chair of the Communications Working Group\, he is a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).\nAs well as being an advisor on Holocaust-era restitution issues\, guiding Holocaust survivors and refugees\, and their families\, with applications for compensation and the recovery of Holocaust era assets\, he worked with the UK government to create the position of UK Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and now advises incumbent Lord Eric Pickles.\nOutside of work\, Michael is President of the Anglo-Jewish Association (AJA)\, which supports Jewish students to attend higher and further education and is a founding member of the Claims Conference of which Michael is a Director.\nHe is the co-editor of Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance\, an edited collection of new essays by leading international human rights experts.\nPreviously\, Michael was a consultant to the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) and was a researcher at the Holocaust Educational Trust\, the Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and the Inter Parliamentary Council Against Anti-Semitism.\nHe was awarded on OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021. \nStephen Smith  \n \nStephen D. Smith is Executive Chairman and co-founder of StoryFile\, the world’s first AI Conversational Video platform that brings video to life. \nStephen is an international speaker and oral historian who specializes in immersive media. \nIn addition to his role at StoryFile\, Stephen serves as Executive Director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation\, the archive founded by Steven Spielberg to document the Holocaust and global genocides. He is a theologian by training and in that capacity is USC Visiting Professor of Religion\, where he researches genocide related testimony. \nStephen has authored several books and has two titles forthcoming in 2022: The Trajectory of Memory and Holocaust XR. \nStephen is a member of the order of the British Empire. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha \nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec). \nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg) \nMay 26\, 2022 ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’ Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\n\nUpcoming Events:\n\nJoin us in October for our final session.\n\nThank you to our partners:
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LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T150000
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SUMMARY:Czech Embassy Series: Featuring Novelist\, Poet and Translator Marek Toman
DESCRIPTION:Czech Embassy Series: \nThrough 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. This series began on June 1\, 2021 and runs once a month. \nThe Embassy of the Czech Republic\, in collaboration with Classrooms without Borders\, invites you to the online discussion with Novelist\, Poet and Translator Marek Toman. \n \nNovelist\, poet and translator Marek Toman is passionately dedicated to Jewish culture—the culture of his father\, whom he lost early in life. Born in 1967\, Toman studied philosophy at Charles University\, then he worked as an art editor on Czech Radio. Since 1997 he has been employed at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2000 and 2010\, Toman worked as a diplomat in Estonia and Hungary. \nIn his novels\, he mainly devotes himself to historical topics. He is happy to surprise readers with forgotten episodes of Czech and European history which he researches thoroughly. In his works for children\, he loves to present classics of world literature\, showing children the magic power of reading. As for example in his prizewinning Cross-Eyed Jim’s Coffeehouse.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/czech-embassy-series-featuring-novelist-poet-and-translator-marek-toman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T190000
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SUMMARY:Keeping Up With Kindness Interest Night and Returning Volunteers Hang
DESCRIPTION:Join us on zoom to learn about Classrooms Without Borders’ Keeping Up With Kindness program and how you can get involved! This event is for high school students only.\n\nIn the meantime\, be sure to apply to volunteer with us this year here: https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/forms/keeping-up-with-kindness-volunteer-application/\n\n\nThe Keeping Up With Kindness program was created by Lauren Haffner in response to the tragic shooting on October 27\, 2018 at the Tree of Life Synagogue building. This initiative brings exemplary teen role models to K-5th grade classrooms to teach and engage children in mindful group discussions and lessons focusing on the importance of being kind to one another\, embracing diversity and standing up against bullying. \nThe program is built as a four part classroom series where teen volunteers\, bringing a passion for promoting acts of kindness\, facilitate an engaging\, interactive\, and collaborative conversation with young students in a safe\, communicative and friendly academic environment to teach and nurture a more just society that values\, above all\, kindness and respect for each other. \nAt this meeting\, we’ll learn a bit more about the program and have the opportunity to meet returning volunteers!
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/keeping-up-with-kindness-interest-night-and-returning-volunteers-hang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T163000
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion The Students of Umberto Primo with Director Alessandra Maioletti & Executive Producer Diane Boulanger; Moderated by Avi Ben Hur
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion The Students of Umberto Primo with Director Alessandra Maioletti Moderated by Avi Ben Hur\nA Sneak Peak!\nThe link to watch the film prior to the discussion will be sent out 3 days prior to the Film Discussion. \nWe urge you to watch the film prior to the event.\n\n\nBased on discovered documents that had been long forgotten\, this docudrama tells the stories of nine Greek-Italian Jewish primary school students who were among the hundreds of Jewish children studying at Thessaloniki’s Public Italian school\, Umberto Primo\, until the 1941-1942 school year … when Nazi soldiers entered the region and forever changed the course of their histories. \nSome survived. Tragically\, some did not. \nThis Event is part of a week long series of events:  \n“Agape and Hope Resurrected in Hripsime’s Agony\, Athena’s Mourning\, and Rachel’s Heartbreak” \nClassrooms Without Borders is proud to partner with the Greek and Armenian Communities of Greater Pittsburgh on this week long series of events.  \n\n\n – ABOUT THE FILM – \nThe beautifully filmed docudrama\, The Students of Umberto Primo\, brings to life the stories of nine young Jewish students studying at the Italian school\, Umberto Primo\, in Thessaloniki\, Greece\, during the time of Nazi occupation. The project is the result of a discovery by Antonio Crescenzi of students’ essays\, graduation diplomas\, and other documents of historical importance\, that had been long forgotten in the basement of the Italian Institute of Thessaloniki (formerly the location of Italian School of Umberto Primo). Sadly\, these students never received their graduation diplomas\, or their papers\, because of Nazi persecution. Thanks to Crescenzi’s discovery and subsequent work\, 157 diplomas were presented to survivors and/or their families in January 2017. \nCrescenzi and director\, Alessandra Maoiletti\, collaborated to lovingly and respectfully research and recreate the lives of these young boys and girls\, who were just “coming of age\,” depicting their dreams and aspirations for the future and the exuberance of their youth – a youth cut short for the sole reason that they were Jewish. Some survived the Holocaust. Sadly\, some did not. \nInitially\, The Students of Umberto Primo debuted as a theatre production\, also directed by Maioletti\, which had a highly acclaimed and successful run throughout Greece. The film seeks to not only bring more life to the story\, but to also reach a broader audience with a work of important cultural and historical significance. \nIt is important now\, perhaps more than ever\, to understand the evil that lurks in this world\, and to remind people of what can happen when totalitarianism\, isolationism\, nationalism and fanatic-ideological beliefs overcome the core values and compassion of the “regular citizen.” \nDirector Alessandra Maioletti \nBorn in Athens and raised in Rome\, Alessandra Maioletti has worked as a casting director and assistant director for French\, Italian\, Greek\, and American production companies\, and as a production director for documentaries. She has collaborated with many Greek directors\, including Nikos Koundouros\, Tasos Boulmetis\, Michael Marmarinos\, Menelaos Karamagiilis\, Stelios Pavlidis\, and Dimitris lndares. \nShe is the Director\, writer and producer for “The Students of Umberto Primo”. \n \nDiane Boulanger\, Executive Producer \n \nDiane currently lives and works in both Athens\, Greece and Boston\, MA. She graduated from Boston University’s College of Communications in 1990 with a degree in Broadcasting/Film\, and moved to Greece soon thereafter\, working as a magazine editor for the English-language monthly magazine\, The Athenian. \nHer career took a different trajectory when she moved back to the States in the late 90s\, and began a career in advertising/marketing\, working for (among other ad agencies)\, the legendary Leo Burnett. Currently\, she is the principal of Kickstarter Communications\, an agency that helps smaller enterprises “get off the ground” with branding\, website design\, and other tools to help them succeed. \nDuring a visit back to Greece\, Diane reconnected with Alessandra Maioletti and met Antonio Crescenzi\, who shared with her the storyboards and vision for the film production of The Students of Umberto Primo. She fell in love with the stories and the passion behind this remarkable film and was confident that she could engender support for it from the States; and that crowdfunding would be a good way to go about it. The campaign was a success and contributed to the additional support that was garnered by the hard work of Crescenzi and Maioletti. She also provided website design and social media support to augment the campaign\, as well as her own monetary investment. \nThis incredible film has reignited a passion for great storytelling and beautiful cinematography\, and she is grateful to be a part of the talented team of people who brought these long-forgotten stories to life. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \n \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. \n\n\n \n\n \n\n\nThank you to our partners:
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