Events

Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 6, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Jan 6, 2026 at 8:00pm

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Join us for a compelling online book talk with historian Scott D. Seligman, author of The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906, as he unpacks a dramatic and little known chapter in American Jewish history. Set in New York at the dawn of the twentieth century, this meticulously researched account begins in the winter of 1905-1906 when a Brooklyn elementary school principal urged his Jewish students to be “more like Jesus Christ,” sparking outrage in the community and inspiring mass mobilization.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 6, 2026 at 6:30pm
Ends Jan 6, 2026 at 8:00pm

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Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a very special evening with Dr. Michael Berenbaum as he presents the Spector/Warren Fellowship Public Lecture: Resilience and Resistance During the Holocaust: Lessons for Today.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 8, 2026 at 7:00pm
Ends Jan 8, 2026 at 8:30pm

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The history of the Karya forced labor camp in Greece might have remained unknown if not for the dedicated research of author Andreas Assael. A photo album purchased from a street vendor sparked his twenty-year investigation to identify victims and perpetrators.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 11, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ends Jan 11, 2026 at 4:00pm

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Join HMMSA as Holocaust survivor Eva Balcazar shares her remarkable story of resilience in the face of Nazi oppression. She will recount her childhood, her beloved parents, and their forced migration from Germany following Kristallnacht in 1938.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 13, 2026 at 3:00pm
Ends Jan 13, 2026 at 4:30pm

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This presentation will focus on the institutional, situational, and personal judgments about the Final Solution, i.e., the Nazi plan to eliminate Europe's Jewish population. The lecture will also place emphasis on the Selection process at Auschwitz, where inmates were either designated to go to the gas chamber or to perform forced labor.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 13, 2026 at 7:00pm
Ends Jan 13, 2026 at 9:00pm

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Congregation Beth Israel's Adult Education Committee is pleased to welcome Ted Deutch, Chief Executive Officer of American Jewish Committee (AJC) who served 12+ years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ted will share insights into AJC's vital role on the global stage, including its often behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts on behalf of Jewish communities and others worldwide. He'll be joined in conversation by AJC National President and Congregation Beth Israel Past President Bobby Lapin, who will moderate a thoughtful discussion on Israel, rising antisemitism, and other pressing issues shaping our world today.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 14, 2026 at 4:00pm
Ends Jan 14, 2026 at 5:30pm

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This virtual program examines how journalists, photographers, radio broadcasters, and newsreel filmmakers reported on the Nuremberg trials and helped bring unprecedented international attention to the court, not only shaping public attention but also how the trials are remembered today.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 14, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Jan 14, 2026 at 7:00pm

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In this 3-session class, led by Professor Margarete Feinstein, discover the remarkable story of Holocaust survivors beginning to rebuild their lives while in Displaced Persons camps in occupied Germany.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 20, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Jan 20, 2026 at 7:00pm

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A 2025 National Jewish Book Award Finalist that judges described as “reads like a thriller” and winner of Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama & Best Story of Overcoming, Irena’s Gift explores how reckoning with family betrayal, moral complexity, and hidden histories can reframe our identities—and why excavating these truths matters at a time when Jewish identity itself is under scrutiny.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 20, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Jan 20, 2026 at 7:00pm

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This virtual program examines how journalists, photographers, radio broadcasters, and newsreel filmmakers reported on the Nuremberg trials and helped bring unprecedented international attention to the court, not only shaping public attention but also how the trials are remembered today.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 21, 2026 at 12:00pm
Ends Jan 21, 2026 at 1:00pm

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Who were the early resisters to Hitler and Nazism? What compelled them to sound the alarm on a fringe political group? How and why did they fail to stop them? And what lessons can draw from it for our own time?
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 21, 2026 at 3:00pm
Ends Jan 21, 2026 at 4:30pm

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This presentation will focus on the institutional, situational, and personal judgments about the Final Solution, i.e., the Nazi plan to eliminate Europe's Jewish population. The lecture will also emphasize the Selection process at Auschwitz, where inmates were either designated to go to the gas chamber or to perform forced labor.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 26, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Jan 26, 2026 at 7:00pm

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Nazism has always faced resistance – from the German artists who risked their lives by drawing caricatures of the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try to expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 26, 2026 at 7:00pm
Ends Jan 26, 2026 at 8:00pm

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The FJMC Committee to Combat Antisemitism will commemorate International Holocaust Day with a discussion on current challenges and trauma for the Jewish people. Dr. Dean Bell, President and CEO of the Spertus Institute will share perspectives on the work of the Spertus Institute to train and educate Jewish leaders to fight antisemitism. He will also discuss his new book, “Judaism, History and the Environment,” Engaging creatively with Jewish texts and history, this book explores the interplay between history, Judaism, and the environment through the prism of natural disasters.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 27, 2026 at 12:00pm
Ends Jan 27, 2026 at 1:00pm

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Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day by introducing your students to an important mission – recovering the identities and memory of those whom the Nazis sought to erase.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 27, 2026 at 7:00pm
Ends Jan 27, 2026 at 8:30pm

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Join HMMSA as Dr. Amon explores the legacy of the first international prosecution of Nazi leaders after the Holocaust. Drawing on courtroom testimony, selected archival footage, and his visits to sites such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, and the historic Nuremberg courtroom, Dr. Amon will examine how judgment at Nuremberg 80 years ago established a permanent historical record of the Holocaust, gave voice to survivors, and affirmed that even the most powerful can be held accountable.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jan 29, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Jan 29, 2026 at 8:00pm

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Naya Lekht is a scholar on contemporary antisemitism and works with the Jewish community to foster pride in the history of the Jewish people.
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