Join us for a two-day event led by Amanda Ripley and learn how to disagree with grace! You may attend one day or both days, whatever best fits your schedule. …
Taking steps towards change – updates from our Social Justice teams
The Stan Greenspon Center is ready to make significant change in 2019 for immigrants, for housing, for healthcare, for justice within the criminal system, for others, and for ourselves. Here …
Do you love learning? We’ve got you covered.
This year is off to a great start and it’s only February! During the last month, The Greenspon Center took Holocaust education programs into four schools, hosted the international viewing …
Remember With Us This January
In January of 2017, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) launched their international campaign #WeRemember. They urged people around the world to photograph themselves holding a sign with the text “We …
Begin the New Year with New Ideas
Winter is a time when the earth quietly prepares itself for the rush of growth and beauty that is Spring. Take a tip from Mother Nature and use this quiet …
Changing Clothes, Changing Realities and Celebrating our Greenspon Second Anniversary
The Stan Greenspon Center celebrated its second anniversary with a staged reading of Protective Custody Prisoner 34042 – the compelling story of our Charlotte cherished Holocaust survivor and scholar, Dr. …
“Never Again” is Not Enough
A friend of mine recently had the opportunity to speak with a Holocaust scholar who keeps an eye on antisemitism in many places. After the conversation, she told me that …
Speeches, Secrets, and Superman! Three Engaging Courses Coming to Queens this Winter
Isidor I. Rabi, the Nobel laureate in physics, was once asked, ”Why did you become a scientist, rather than a doctor or lawyer or businessman, like the other immigrant kids …
80 years ago today…
80 years ago today, we awoke to a nightmare – if we ever went to sleep at all. 80 years ago today, any one who closed their eyes to the …
Nights and Days of Brokenness
Eighty years ago, on the night of November 9th, 1938, the Nazi government stood by and watched as synagogues, Jewish owned businesses, schools, and homes were vandalized, looted, and destroyed. …