Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Monday, November 4, 2024
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Online course
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Description:
Participate in this online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching of historical and contemporary antisemitism in today’s classrooms. Antisemitism did not fade after World War II, but is a global phenomenon that continues to rise. Participation in this course will give you the tools needed to deliver thoughtful, engaging, and historically accurate lessons on contemporary antisemitism for students.
Course Details:
Program includes three interactive modules; approximately 6 hours to complete in total – at no cost.Proceed at your own pace each week, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educators.Complete all three modules for a 6-hour certificate.Final module includes additional time to complete optional final project for a 10-hour certificate.Graduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Course Schedule:
Opens November 4th and closes December 2nd.Optional Final Project: Due December 2nd.
Program Outcomes:
Learn about the comprehensive resources available in Echoes & Reflections to support the teaching of historical and contemporary antisemitism.Be introduced to a sound pedagogy for teaching about the Holocaust.Practice instructional strategies designed to help your students learn about the complex history of contemporary antisemitism that persists in their schools, communities, and the world.(Optional) Prepare a final project to take back to the classroom.Become part of a network of educators teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, December 1, 2024
at 1:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Address provided upon registration
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Description:
Join Hadassah El Paso to paint ceramic butterflies together while learning important lessons of the Holocaust through stories, art, and photographs, and honor the 1.5 million children who perished.
To register, click here.
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Monday, December 2, 2024
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy. Use this course to provide students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
Course Details:
Course begins December 2nd, 2024 at 7am ET. About 4 hours to complete – at no cost.Proceed at your own pace, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educators.Complete all activities for a 4-hour certificate. Graduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
After completing this course you will be able to:
Explore a sound pedagogy for planning and implementing Holocaust education in the classroom.Identify forms of assistance provided to Jews by non-Jews during the Holocaust, including the Kindertransport.Examine the role and impact of antisemitism on rescue efforts.Discuss how the Kindertransport and other avenues of rescue were considered a “choiceless choice” for Jews.Explore how rescuers are both extraordinary and ordinary as well as the impact studying the choices of rescuers during the Holocaust can have on our choices today.Explore various resources and tools to support your teaching of the complex ideas of rescue and support in the context of the Holocaust.
To enroll, click here.
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Monday, December 2, 2024
at 7:30pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Legacy Midtown Park
8240 Manderville Ln Dallas, TX 75231
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Description:
Many Jewish actors, directors and Hollywood Industry insiders had direct family ties to Jews caught up in the Holocaust. Through entertaining and powerful film clips and stories honoring these great artists of Hollywood, this program will showcase how an industry responded to the darkest moments in world history. Come and see how Hollywood and the Jewish history intertwine through this fascinating event.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
at 5:30pm -
6:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Eighty-six years after mobs destroyed synagogues, shattered shop windows and assaulted Jews in a spasm of hatred known as Kristallnacht, Jews in Europe fled for their lives again, this time in Amsterdam.
A “Jew hunt,” New York Times columnist Bret Stephens called the attacks surrounding a soccer match between Israeli and Dutch teams, pointing out that the haters had said more about “Cancer Jews” than about Gaza. “Grotesque as the phrase is, it can no longer surprise,” he continued, punctuating his point with a reminder of recent anti-Jewish abuse and assaults in America as well as in Europe.
Even as Stephens was writing, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, was flying to Amsterdam to meet with the Dutch prime minister, justice minister and national security adviser as well as leaders from the local Jewish community. Writing in USA Today after his trip, he warned about what the violence in Amsterdam and the hostility on American campuses may foreshadow. “As history has shown us time and time again, antisemitism starts with the Jews – but never ends with the Jews.”
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center is honored to welcome Jonathan Greenblatt and Bret Stephens for a conversation addressing the question of whether the Gaza War caused the new eruption of antisemitism or whether it simply uncorked the flow of ancient hatred, the media’s downplaying of Jew-hating and the ways forward.
Jonathan A. Greenblatt is the CEO of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and its sixth National Director. As chief executive of ADL, Jonathan leads all aspects of the world’s leading anti-hate organization. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovative leader with deep experience in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.
Bret Stephens is an opinion columnist for The New York Times and the founder and editor-in-chief of SAPIR, a new quarterly devoted to issues of Jewish concern.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
12500 Northwest Military HighwaySan Antonio, TX, 78231
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Description:
Stefan and Marion Hess's happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called "this dying hell"—the infamous concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen.
Faris Cassell, a journalist and writer, lives with her husband in Eugene, Oregon. She earned a B.A. in history from Mount Holyoke College and an M.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon. Her first book, The Unanswered Letter, was the winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 2021.
To find out more, click here.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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General
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the eminent Talmudist Jacob Joseph. All went well until the procession crossed Sheriff Street, where the six-story R. Hoe and Company printing press factory towered over the intersection. Without warning, scraps of steel, iron bolts, and scalding water rained down and injured hundreds of mourners, courtesy of antisemitic factory workers, accompanied by insults and racial slurs. The police compounded the attack when they arrived on the scene: under orders from the inspector in charge, who made no effort to distinguish aggressors from victims, his officers began beating up Jews, injuring dozens.
To the Yiddish-language daily Forward, the bloody attack on Jews was not unlike the pogroms many Jews remembered bitterly from the Old Country, although no one was killed. But this was America, and Jews were now present in sufficient numbers, and possessed sufficient political clout, to fight back. Fed up with being persecuted, New York’s Jews set a pattern for the future by deftly pursuing justice for the victims. They forced trials and disciplinary hearings, accelerated retirements and transfers within the corrupt police department, and engineered the resignation of the police commissioner. Scott D. Seligman’s The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral is the first book-length account of this event and its aftermath.
Scott D. Seligman is a national award-winning writer and historian with a special interest in the history of hyphenated Americans. He is a former corporate executive who holds an undergraduate degree in American history from Princeton and a master’s degree from Harvard. His first Jewish-themed book, The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902, won gold medals in history in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Reader Views Literary Awards and was a finalist in the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards. He lives in Washington. DC.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Reinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982, as his retirement neared, his long-concealed secret came to light. The chief custodian at Oak Park and River Forest High School outside Chicago had been a Nazi, a member of the SS, and a guard at a brutal slave labor camp during World War II. Similar revelations stunned communities across the country. As the Office of Special Investigations raced to uncover Hitler’s men in the United States, neighbors had to reconcile horrific accusations with the helpful, kind, and soft-spoken neighbors they thought they knew. Though Nazis loomed in the American consciousness as evil epitomized, in Oak Park—a Chicago suburb renowned for its liberalism—people rose to defend Kulle, a war criminal.
In Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil, Oak Park and River Forest High School teacher Michael Soffer digs into his community’s tumultuous response to the Kulle affair. He explores the uncomfortable truths of how and why onetime Nazis found allies in American communities after their gruesome pasts were uncovered. Soffer will be in conversation with Hasia R. Diner, professor emeritus of American Jewish History at New York University.
Michael Soffer is a history teacher at Lake Forest High School. During his tenure at Oak Park and River Forest High School, he taught Holocaust studies in a classroom that former Nazi camp guard Reinhold Kulle used to clean. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Forward, Chicago Jewish History, and the Times of Israel. This is his first book.
Hasia Diner is Professor Emerita, New York University where she was the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History. She is the author of numerous books in the field of American Jewish history, American immigration history and the history of American women. She has won both Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and two of her books received the National Jewish Book Award.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
"The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter. Next month there should already be a ghetto, a real one, surrounded by walls. In the summer it will be unbearable. To sit in a gray locked cage, without being able to see fields and flowers." Rutka Laskier was a sensitive and precocious 14-year old who perished in the Holocaust - but the diary she left behind is especially resonant with teenagers and remains a terrific primary resource to teach about the Holocaust. Join Sheryl Ochayon, Echoes & Reflections Project Director for Yad Vashem, to discuss this amazing source, its context, and how to use it in the classroom.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:30pm
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General
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Classrooms Without Borders celebrates the 96th birthday of Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler, whose remarkable story has touched the lives of hundreds of educators and students worldwide.
Howard’s unwavering dedication to Holocaust education, through his long-standing partnership with CWB, has transformed classrooms into spaces of deep learning and reflection. His personal journey of survival, resilience, and hope has inspired countless individuals to confront the past and build a better future.
This special event honors Howard’s incredible legacy and his ongoing work to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten. Be part of this momentous occasion as we pay tribute to a true pillar of remembrance and education.
Classrooms Without Borders requests that participants come prepared to share their own stories about how Howard has impacted you, whether through his teachings, personal reflections, or his lasting influence on your approach to education.
This special event is not just a celebration of Howard’s life, but a collective tribute to the legacy he continues to build through each life he touches.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
How do you talk to young people about something as painful and complex as antisemitism, especially when they are the target? This webinar will explore the concept of 'traumatic invalidation' where experiences of bias and hate are dismissed or minimized, leaving lasting emotional impacts. Through expert insights, this webinar will provide guidance for parents, caregivers and educators to help address their children and teen's needs and concerns, reduce distress, and foster adaptive coping skills. Don’t miss this opportunity to equip yourself with strategies that make a real difference in the lives of the young people you support.
Panelists:Dr. Tara Liberman | Program Director, Jewish Community Mental Health Initiative at the American Psychological FoundationFaculty & Supervisor, William Alanson White Institute, Child and Adolescent ProgramDr. Miri Bar-Halpern | Director of Intensive Outpatient Program, Boston Child Study CenterInstructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical SchoolModerator: Stefanie Singer | Laurie M. Tisch Education Director, ADL
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
at 10:00am -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
This is an in-person program. We look forward to seeing you at the Museum.
Please note: All students must be 6th grade and above and accompanied by an adult chaperone for the duration of the program.
Join the Education Staff of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a day of learning for homeschool students. Activities include a tour of the Museum's permanent exhibition, a Dimensions in Testimony experience, and an interactive classroom program.
SCHEDULE:
9:00 a.m. Arrival and Welcome9:30 a.m. Permanent Exhibition Tours and Dimensions in Testimony Experience 11:30 a.m. Reporting on History activityThis interactive and creative program allows students to create a front page news story over the Dallas Civil Rights movement.12:30 p.m. Program End
Tickets: $15 per participant.
To buy tickets, click here.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands
5125 SHADOWBEND PLACE
THE WOODLANDS, TX, 77381
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Description:
Monthly Jewish Study - Getting a Handle on Modern Antisemitism at Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
at 6:30pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Stein Hall
Congregation Beth Yeshurun
4525 Beechnut
Houston, TX 77096
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Description:
100 Jewish Men
2024-2025
100 Jewish Men is a group of men dedicated to improving themselves and each other as men, fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, friends, and Jews. Through controversial, thought-provoking speakers and small group discussions, we will explore what usually remains unspoken in men’s lives at work and at home. We have an incredible year planned, and we hope you choose to be part of it.
Each event is a stand-alone program. There are no annual fees; you pay per program that you attend.
December Program
Scott Kammerman, Executive Director of Friends of the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, & Antisemitism Advisory Commission joins us this month.
Wednesday, Dec 11 | Dinner at 6:30 pm | Program at 7:00 pm
Beth Yeshurun Members: Program Only - $12 | Dinner & Program - $25
Non-Members: Program Only - $25 | Dinner & Program - $38
Deadline to register: Monday, Dec 9 at Noon
To register, click here.
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Max Friedman is the son of two Holocaust survivors who met after their liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and who had lost everyone and everything they knew and loved. Max spent most of his life avoiding his past, and his parents rarely spoke about their experiences; but every day, he witnessed the trauma of their survival. Later in life, a question from Max's eight-year-old grandson convinced him that he had to learn more about what his parents lived through. After five years of discovery, the result was his book Painful Joy: A Holocaust Family Memoir.
During this webinar, Max, now 74 years old, will tell the personal story of his own family. Join Max as he shares his journey, one which is often heartbreaking—but also heartwarming. With the alarming growth of antisemitism, racism, and authoritarianism in the world, Max feels it is more important than ever to share his story and the lessons learned about resilience, survival, and the dire consequences of hate.
To register, click here.
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