At the Greenspon Center we are listening, learning, and offering avenues for creating change everywhere – in Grier Heights, in Charlotte, and online. Greenspon Center advocates supported a July 24th …
Journey Through Jewish Poland: Roots, Resilience, and Renewal Join Talli Dippold, Rabbi Judy Schindler and Scholar-in-residence: Dr. Tomasz Cebulski on an epic journey through Poland
Many of us hear “Poland” and immediately think of the devastation related to the Holocaust. And yet, there is another, more powerful story there. Did you know that in the …
Nostra Aetate: The Seminal Catholic Document in the Fight against Antisemitism
“In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church examines more closely her relationship …
Celebrating Five Years of Collaboration
For the past five years, the Stan Greenspon Center and the Olga Lengyel Institute, based in New York City, partnered to bring a weeklong educator conference to life here in …
#How2FaceHate – Our New Initiative
The Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice is excited to announce our newest project, #How2FaceHate (#H2FH). On the website www.how2facehate.org, young people who have experienced acts of hate …
Sacred Threads: Encountering Nostra Aetate for our Time – A Regional Interfaith Conference
Join people from all faiths for a regional interfaith conference entitled “Sacred Threads: Encountering Nostra Aetate for Our Time,” to explore the remarkable content of Nostra Aetate — the 1965 …
Time to Break the Silence by: Frances Hamilton
It has been totally disregarded, or begrudgingly noted with the least amount of recognition, for too long. It’s been threatened, degraded, forced out, pushed aside, silenced, unappreciated, criticized, downplayed or …
Wine & Wisdom: A Low Stakes Way To Get Connected
By Hannah Eccleston The summer months are often thought of as a break, especially from education. Students are out of school for the summer, and often religious classes are paused …
From the Field: Teachers and Students Share with Us
For teachers, July is the month that embodies Summer Vacation. June ends with a few days of school followed by a week or so of finishing grades and other odds …
Queens Alum join together to create Belk Chapel Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Initiative
By Mohammed Jibriel (Class of 2019), former president of Queens’ Muslim Student Association (Salam), and Noah Goldman (Class of 2019), former president of Queens’ Jewish Student Association (Hillel). “So great …