Events List
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List of Events
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
Session 2: Campus Antisemitism at Home and Abroad
In this session, experts will discuss the rise of antisemitism on college campuses within the United States and Europe. The conversation will focus on antisemitic speech and action on campuses, what drives this rhetoric, and what we might see in the future.
Speakers to be announced!
About the Series
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a three-part series on contemporary antisemitism. Through these public programs, we aim to foster an increased understanding of this long-standing hatred, to discuss the alarming increase in antisemitism globally and in the United States, and to identify concrete steps that can be taken to confront and disrupt antisemitism. For these sessions, we will convene a diverse group of experts to share their knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
at 3:30pm -
4:30pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Our one hour workshops are highly interactive and are hosted live on Zoom by ICS Educators.
We’ll examine the rich diversity and history of Jewish Americans, and gain insights that deepen the understandings of identity for all students. Teachers of world history, U.S. history, ethnic studies, human geography and world religions will all find relevant applications and resources in this workshop.
This workshop primarily supports 6-12 educators. However, all are welcome to participate!
To register, click here.
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
at 12:30pm -
1:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Campus of the San Antonio Jewish Community
12500 NW Military Hwy.
San Antonio, TX 78231
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Description:
Join the San Antonio community at the JCC for a historic and meaningful event as we unveil the First Texas Torah, on special loan from the Institute of Texan Cultures. Scribed in the mid-19th century and believed to have been brought from Germany, this remarkable artifact represents the deep-rooted history of Jewish life in Texas and serves as a testament to the traditions of early Jewish communities in our state.
Come out to learn more about this Torah's journey and its significance in Texas Jewish heritage.
This event is free and open to the community.
The Navasota Torah
This Torah is believed to have been brought from Germany to Texas in 1885 by Philip Hamburger. Philip and his family immigrated from Prussia (a historical region that included land in Poland, France, and Lithuania) to Evansville, Indiana, and then onto Navasota, Texas. The arrival of the Torah prompted the creation of the Congregation B’nai Abraham in Brenham. Then in 1964, Brenham lent the Torah to Shaar Hashalom. Congregation B’nai Abraham is now part of Congregation Tiferet Israel in Austin, TX. After its return from Shaar Hashalom, the Torah was then donated to the Institute of Texan Cultures in 2014. The Navasota Torah is 1534 inches, or 12 feet and 10 inches, long and made of sheepskin parchment.
Inscription
An inscription was added onto this Torah at the end of Deuteronomy. The inscription translates as follows: "I corrected this Sefer [Torah] for the Navasota congregation in the month of Menachem Av, 5657 [1897]. Chaim Schwartz, watchman of the House of Israel in Texas".
To register, click here.
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum San Antonio
12500 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78231
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Description:
Sam grew up in Salonika, Greece. When the Nazis entered Greece, Sam and his family were forced to move into the ghetto by Germans after Passover in 1943. Keeping a promise with his friend Jacques that they would stay together no matter what, Sam took the place of Jacques’ brother when the two were summoned to work forced labor. Sam and Jacques were taken to a concentration camp where they later escaped during their daily work laying down railroad tracks and ultimately joined the resistance.
Learn more of Sam’s remarkable story as told by his son, Jerome Cohen, on May 18, 2025 at 2pm.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
at 2:00pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Constellation Field
1 Stadium Drive
Sugar Land, TX 77498
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Description:
Join us for our 2nd Annual Jewish Heritage celebration! Enjoy kosher food options and special seating to cheer on the Space Cowboys. The Jewish Baseball Museum joins us this year as a presenting sponsor.
To buy tickets, click here.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
What happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places of worship that remained in Poland after the Holocaust? How are they perceived, experienced, and interacted with by Polish society from 1945 to the present? In Poland, where the void left in the wake of a near-total disappearance of its former Jewish population is most vivid—and where the Nazi “Final Solution” took its shape and form—the remaining Jewish material traces have come to embody both the absence of the Jews and their haunting presence. Join Chilik Weizman to discuss the afterlives of the thousands of Jewish communal heritage sites scattered throughout Poland’s postwar landscape, trace the social, political, and cultural history of how Poles have interacted with their presence, and see the extent to which the sites evoke unsettling memories and conflicting perceptions of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish reactions.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
DJHS will conduct their annual meeting and have a fun and interactive demonstration and program about the history of Kosher Dallas.Contact: Halley Gottliebhalley@djhs.org
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Monday, May 26, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
On the seemingly ordinary Saturday morning of January 15, 2022, a terrorist stormed Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville TX during a live-streamed service, taking a group of innocent worshippers hostage. The hostages endured a harrowing 11-hour ordeal that captured the world's attention. Join the courageous Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and award-winning writer-director Dani Menkin to discuss this incident, as well as the gripping film "Colleyville" that they made about it using footage from the live stream and audio and video from security cameras in a rare view from inside the hostage situation.
The film, which explores the complexities of hate crimes and antisemitism, is a story of inspiration and resilience. The film will be made available for a limited advanced screening to those who register for the webinar. Please look for a separate email containing the viewing link to be sent a few days before the webinar. A 2-minute trailer can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/953006306
To register, click here.
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