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Thursday, January 27, 2022
at 5:00pm -
6:00pm
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Commemorations
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Zoom
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Description:
Interviews with Lynne Meadow and Tovah Feldshuh in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Arnold Mittelman,
President of the National Jewish Theater Foundation (NJTF), will speak
with the artistic leader of the Manhattan Theatre Club, director Lynne Meadow, and Broadway star, actress and author Tovah Feldshuh
on the role of theatre in Holocaust Remembrance. Both of these esteemed
artists are recipients of the 2021 NJTF Lifetime Achievement Award.
Together with Mr. Mittelman, they will discuss how their creative
process and Jewish heritage has informed their remarkable body of work.
Renowned Broadway and off-Broadway award winning producer Daryl Roth
will provide introductory remarks.
From Arnold Mittelman, NJTF
President and Director of NJTF Holocaust Theater International
Initiative at University of Miami Miller Center; “we are living in times
when studies indicate that the memory and knowledge of the Holocaust is
lessening. Unfortunately, this coincides with the passing of living
survivors and the rise of antisemitism. Civilization will be profoundly
and negatively affected if the causes of this man-made tragedy are not
understood in the context of today’s world. By researching, educating
and performing Holocaust-related theater we utilize our talents to
inform and alter the course of these events.”
This event is online
only. A link to the Zoom webinar will be emailed to registrants two
days before the event, with reminder emails on the day of the event. Register here.
Arnold Mittelman is a Producer,
Director, Educator and Author with a nationally recognized career of
artistic and educational achievement. He helped found and/or lead five
major not-for-profit theaters including the acclaimed New York Free
Theater, The Whole Theater Company and The Coconut Grove Playhouse. He
has launched numerous world premieres and commercial theatrical
productions for Broadway, Off Broadway, National Tours and the West End.
His distinguished teaching, educational and innovative training
programs have accompanied his body of work. In 2007 he created and was
named President and Producing Artistic Director of the National Jewish
Theater Foundation. Mr. Mittelman is founding director of the NJTF/HTII Holocaust Theater International Initiative,
at the University of Miami Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic
Studies, overseeing its work in research, education and production. The
NJTF produced and Mr. Mittelman directed the critically acclaimed NYC
production of the stage and film version of Holocaust play The Soap Myth by Jeff Cohen. Most recently NJTF and Mr. Mittelman produced the NYC and London productions of the newly reimagined musical Rothschild & Sons
by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Sherman Yellen. He is co- author of
“Enacting History: A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through
Theater” published by UK Routledge Press.
Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club)
has been the artistic visionary and leader of MTC since 1972, creating
hundreds of new productions on and off Broadway that have put the
company at the forefront of the American theatre. Lynne has directed
dozens of U.S., New York and Broadway premieres including Richard
Greenberg’s The Assembled Parties; Margaret Edson’s Wit; Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; David Rudkin’s Ashes; Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Armenians; Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories; and Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind.
She has accepted four Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Revival on
behalf of MTC, as well as numerous Drama Desk, Lortel, Obie and Outer
Critics Circle Awards, among others. Education: Bryn Mawr College, Yale
School of Drama. Teaching: Yale, NYU, SUNY, Fordham. Awards: Mr. Abbott
Award, Lucille Lortel and Lilly Awards for Lifetime Achievement, Margo
Jones Award, Louis Auchincloss Prize, Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
Tovah Feldshuh,
a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee, has been awarded three honorary
Doctorates of Humane Letters. For her theatre work, she has won four
Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the
Theatre World, the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best
Actress. She is a playwright, concert artist, and author. Her first
memoir, LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played,
has been chosen as a “Must Read” by Good Morning America and was ranked
the Number One New Release in Parent and Adult Child Relationships on
Amazon. TV credits include: Holocaust, Law & Order, The Walking Dead, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend where Feldshuh can be seen singing the dignified showstopper: "Where's the Bathroom!" Films include: Kissing Jessica Stein, A Walk on the Moon, The Idolmaker, Golda’s Balcony the film, Paramount Pictures’ Clifford, and the just completed Armageddon Time opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway. Broadway: Yentl, Golda’s Balcony, Irena’s Vow, Saravá!, Lend me a Tenor, Pippin
etc. Off-Broadway: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dr.
Ruth Westheimer in Mark St. Germain’s one woman tour-de-force Becoming Dr. Ruth. March 5-11, she will be in concert as Tovah is LEONA!
in Florida playing the infamous Queen of Mean, Leona Helmsley. Tovah is
the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award, Hadassah's
Myrtle Wreath & Mother of the Year Award and the Israel Peace Medal.
Instagram: @tovahfeld. Website: www.tovahfeldshuh.com.
Daryl Roth holds the singular distinction of producing 7 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Anna in the Tropics; August: Osage County (2008 Tony); Clybourne Park (2012 Tony); How I Learned to Drive (the original Off-Broadway production and the upcoming Broadway debut); Proof (2001 Tony); Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; and Wit.
The proud recipient of 12 Tony Awards and London’s Olivier Award, her
over 120 award winning productions include: the 2013 Tony winner for
Best Musical, Kinky Boots, 6 years on Broadway and around the globe; Absolute Brightness; Angels in America (2018 Tony); Buyer & Cellar; Caroline, or Change; Company; Curtains; Gloria: A Life; Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia (2002 Tony); Indecent; It Shoulda Been You; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Normal Heart (2011 Tony); The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; War Horse (2011 Tony); and The Year of Magical Thinking. Upcoming: the new musical Between the Lines based on Jodi Picoult's bestselling book; How I Learned to Drive starring the original cast, Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse; the revival of Funny Girl starring Beanie Feldstein; and Paul Grellong’s The Power of Sail,
which will premiere this winter at the Geffen Playhouse in LA starring
Bryan Cranston. Ms. Roth is a Trustee of Lincoln Center Theater and the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Honored to have been
inducted into the 2017 Theatre Hall of Fame.
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Community-Wide Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
Honoring Our Survivors: Tova Friedman and Maud Dahme with The Jewish Federation of Somerset, Hunterdon, and Warren Counties, Shimon and Sara Birnbaum-JCC, The JCC Holocaust Memorial, and Education Center, and JEWISH LIFE.
Join the Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Raritan Valley Community College for this special online event as they honor Tova Friedman and Maud Dahme for their dedication and tireless efforts to further Holocaust education.
Register here.
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education (Chhange) for their virtual commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, featuring Dr. Devin Naar, Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington.
Dr. Naar will discuss the experiences of Sephardic Jews during the Holocaust. Sephardic communities flourished in Greece and other parts of the Mediterranean region for generations. When the Nazis invaded, the vast majority of these Jews were deported to concentration camps and murdered. Dr. Naar will help shed light on this often-overlooked part of Holocaust history.
Register here.
Dr. Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies, Associate Professor of History, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Born and raised in New Jersey, Dr. Naar received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University. He has also served as a Fulbright fellow to Greece. His first book, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture.
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
at 6:30pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The community is invited to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day with the Lappin Foundation.
This year's commemoration is dedicated to the memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust. The featured speaker will be Michael Gruenbaum, survivor of Terezín and author of Somewhere There is Still a Sun. The guest moderator will be Josh Kraft, President of Kraft Family Philanthropies.
The program is free and everyone is welcome. For more information, contact Susan Feinstein at (978) 740-4431 or via e-mail sfeinstein@lappinfoundation.org.
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
at 6:30pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota for their 2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration.
Register here.
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
at 6:30pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-BelsenPresented by Dr. Bernice Lerner Former Dean of Adult Learning, Hebrew College; Senior Scholar, Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility
On April 15, 1945, three weeks before World War II’s end, a unit of the British Second Army entered Bergen-Belsen. Hardened military men sickened at the sight—nothing they had seen in battle came close to the depravity at the then-largest Nazi concentration camp. Among the 60,000 desperate and emaciated inmates were 25,000 who would die if they did not receive immediate medical care. Brigadier Glyn Hughes, the army’s Deputy Director of Medical Services, committed himself to the complex and harrowing task of trying to save lives. Fifteen-year-old Rachel Genuth, who had lost her parents and four siblings in Auschwitz, was among those at death’s door.
In this author’s talk, Dr. Lerner will discuss events that led Rachel and Hughes to Bergen-Belsen, and why their narratives tell larger, little-known, stories—about the suffering of victims, the struggles of liberators, and about the human capacity for fortitude and redemption. She will also share how she went about researching and writing the life-changing chapters in the lives of Rachel Genuth (who became her mother) and Glyn Hughes.
Register here.
Dr. Bernice Lerner is the author of All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and
other writings on the Holocaust and on virtue ethics. As director of
Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility,
Bernice lectured widely and taught courses on character education and on
the Holocaust. As dean of adult learning at Hebrew College, she created
innovative programs, including the acclaimed Meah, a two-year journey
through Jewish history. Bernice earned a bachelor’s from Stony
Brook University, a master’s from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a
doctorate from Boston University. Dr. Lerner is a senior scholar at
Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility and
an affiliate of the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue.
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
at 9:00pm -
10:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti turned to her grandmother Hana and asked, "Will you tell me your story?" What happened next launched Rachael’s
decade-long quest to retrace how her grandmother remained one step ahead
of the Nazis at every turn and survived the Holocaust thanks to the
kindness of strangers.
More than a decade later, and in honor of International Holocaust
Remembrance Day, award-winning storyteller and photographer Rachael
Cerrotti joins live via Zoom from her home in Maine to share her
grandmother’s story using photographs, video, testimony, and clips from
her critically-acclaimed podcast We Share the Same Sky. This
incredible journey will take you through Central Europe, Scandinavia,
and the United States invoking memories of love, loss, and a woman’s
strength to move forward in the face of uncertainty.
Register here.
This event is produced in partnership with Temple Israel of Hollywood.
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Thursday, January 27, 2022
at 9:00pm -
10:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On 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. Below are two programs that may interest you.
Holocaust Center Seattle and The Defiant Requiem Foundation present Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer. This program highlights music by composers who continued to write new music while imprisoned in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp during World War II. Aware that their lives were fragile, and that deportations to the east were a constant reality, Hours of Freedom explores their need to create this new music as affirmation of a future. Featuring works that miraculously survived, Hours of Freedom is presented as chapters with titles including “The Eyewitness,” “Fate,” “The Broken Heart,” and “The Messenger.” While some of the compositions reflect personal eyewitness accounts of the agony and suffering in Terezín, others express the assurance of a return to life as it was before the war.
The program is one hour in length, and includes recorded musical performances with live commentary from Murry Sidlin, Conductor, and President and Artistic Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation. The program will be followed by a talk-back and Q&A with Maestro Sidlin. This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of Arlene Ehrlich.
Register here.
Questions? Please e-mail Ilana Cone Kennedy, Chief Operating Officer, Holocaust Center Seattle: ilana@HolocaustCenterSeattle.org.
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Friday, January 28, 2022
at 9:00am -
10:00am
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Please join the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University and Montclair Public Schools for the upcoming virtual program Through the Eyes of a Friend.
What does it mean to survive? Sarah is a historically accurate composite character, based on the testimonies of those who knew Anne Frank, as well as other victims, resisters and survivors of the Holocaust and World War II. Through the Eyes of a Friend will come to you as a professionally recorded live performance, with a live post-show discussion and Q&A session with a teaching artist.
For more information, please contact: Dr. Adara Goldberg, Director, Holocaust Resource Center agoldber@kean.edu / (908) 737- 4633
Register here.
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Friday, January 28, 2022
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
What is the nature of contemporary global antisemitism, and how can governments and civil society confront it as a real and urgent crisis?
Join Florida International University for a conversation with Rabbi Baker, Holly Huffnagle, Dina Siegal Vann, and moderator Brian Siegal confront contemporary global antisemitism.
Register here.
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Friday, January 28, 2022
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
According to new research, children as young as three years old can form negative biases when exposed to prejudice, even though they might not understand the "why" of their feelings. This reality demands our utmost attention in developing students' critical literacy skills from a young age so they can successfully interrogate the impact of media and technology in their lives. Schools and families can play a significant role in countering antisemitism and hate by raising young people's awareness about the nature of these prejudices that persist in our schools and communities today.
USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education, along with our partners The Conscious Kid, ADL, and Liberation75, will host a panel discussion about countering antisemitism and other forms of hate in the primary classroom.
Register here.
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
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4:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
Sophie Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, co-founder of the White Rose
non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high
treason after having been found distributing anti-Nazi
leaflets throughout Germany with her brother, Hans Scholl. They
dropped hundreds of these leaflets from a high gallery at the
University of Munich down on crowds of students milling about below —
arguably the only full-fledged public protest against Nazism to have
occurred. Meet Holocaust historian and anthropologist Dr. Jud Newborn, the world’s leading authority on Hans and Sophie Scholl, who will inspire you and motivate you to speak truth to power.
Register here.
THE SCHEDULE
⇒ January 28-31,
watch a documentary film about Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White
Rose Anti-Nazi Resistance on your home device. A link will be provided
to all who register.
⇒ Sunday, January 30 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program. A link will be provided to all who register.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Dr. Jud Newborn served as the Founding Historian and co-creator of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. He is the author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, recently
reissued in an expanded edition. He has lectured worldwide, including
at the United Nations. Following three years of adventurous fieldwork in
Europe as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National
Fellow, including hunting down former SS officers and working
undercover for Poland’s “Solidarity” freedom movement during Communism,
he was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago. In
2018 he was honored by the Anne Frank Center with the “Spirit of Anne
Frank Award.”
Interviewer Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled
Nazi-occupied Europe from Kosice, Slovakia, as a small child in 1941,
via Lisbon, Portugal. Miriam is an appointee to the Florida Education
Commissioner’s Holocaust Task Force. She is the Founding Director of the
University of Miami Holocaust Institute and is a frequent speaker on
Holocaust education at conferences and workshops nationwide. In February
2019 she was given a Special Tribute by the Florida House of
Representatives for her work on behalf of the Jewish Community of
Florida. In October 2019, she was honored in Pittsburgh, PA with The
Lifetime Achievement Award given by Classrooms Without Borders.Tickets are by donation of any amount ($18 minimum suggested, tax-deductible). Season Tickets for all 2022 Sunday programs are also available. To order a ticket click on the button below.
If cost is a barrier, sponsored tickets are available thanks to a generous donor. Just send us an email with subject line SOPHIE to info@sousamendesfoundation.org. Offer valid until January 30 at 2 PM ET (two hours before the program) and then will be removed.
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
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5:00pm
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Commemorations
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Virtual Event
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Description:
Join this USC Shoah Foundation webinar to learn about the trauma, legacy and impact of
being a descendant of a Holocaust refugee or survivor. Through the lens
of their testimonies, as part of the If You Heard What I Heard
docuseries produced by Carolyn Siegel, the grandchildren of Holocaust
survivors will share their experiences of growing up with first-hand
accounts of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Part of a Stronger than
Hate Speaker Series presented by USC Casden Institute and USC Shoah
Foundation.
Speakers:
Moderator-Dr. Kori Street, Finci-Viterbi Interim Director-USC Shoah Foundation
Carolyn Siegel, Founder and CEO, Summer Monday
Dr. Ira Savetsky, Plastic Surgeon
Emily Kane Miller, Founder and CEO of Ethos Giving
Lisa Ansell, Associate Director-USC Casden Institute
Jeremy Ruberg, Rabbi
Register here.
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In addition to an educational component, the program will include the presentation of the 2022 Chesed Award, which is bestowed on individuals who demonstrate exemplary "acts of loving kindness” to Endre (Andy) Sarkany. The Simon Konover Recognition for Excellence in Holocaust Education award will be presented to the following educators: Ian Lowell, Jessica Palliardi, Lauren Thompson, and Kimberly Ballaro. This year, we are also recognizing Classical Magnet and the three Fairfield Middle Schools with a new award, The HERO Center Award for School-wide Excellence in Teaching Holocaust and other Genocides.
This program is free. Register here.
This program is co-sponsored by Voices of Hope and JFACT.
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