This past week my husband watched an episode of “Finding Your Roots” hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on which all three famous people discovered new information about their Jewish …
Centropa Opens Application Process for Summer Academy 2020
Each summer, Centropa turns the great cities of Central Europe into classrooms for dedicated teachers (grades 6-12) interested in learning more about 20th century Jewish and European history, civics project, …
Why Texas Should Matter to You
by Amy Lefkof Hopefully Texas, the Lone Star State, will go down in history as the lone state —the only one — to decline refugee resettlement. As someone who rooted …
Jewish and Muslim Women Standing Together for Peace
Jewish and Muslim women will be standing together for peace at Charlotte’s 2020 Women United March in First Ward Park, January 25, 2020. Join us… We are excited to participate in …
Holocaust Whispers: Lessons in Resilience
Dr. Teresa Stephens has more than 32 years of experience as a Registered Nurse, in both clinical and academic settings. Over the past decade, she has explored the narratives of …
Responding to Cyberhate in the Age of Technology, Greenspon Center 3rd Anniversary Celebration
Join the Stan Greenspon Center for Peace & Social Justice on March 26th to hear the riveting story of Tanya Gersh, who fought back in the face of a neo-Nazi …
Dr. Keaton Receives NAACP Community Champion Award
Reverend Dr. Willie Keaton, Jr. was honored with the NAACP Charlotte-Mecklenburg Branch’s Community Champion Award at their Freedom Fund Award Banquet on Saturday, December 7, 2019. The theme of this …
Dr. Cernyak-Spatz, of blessed memory – a survivor, a teacher, an inspiration, and a friend
Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz, a survivor who testified to the worst of humanity so we could remember, a professor who taught us about history so we could learn, a woman of …
Second Annual Sklut Lecture with Justice Mark Davis: Parallels Between Torah & our Modern Legal System
Queens University Jewish Studies presents The Second Annual Sklut Lecture Justice Mark A. Davis Parallels Between the Torah and our Modern Legal System Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:00 pm- 7:00 …
Evolving and Devolving
Written for Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 2019) and Veteran’s Day (November 11, 2019) Language evolves. Research evolves. Learning evolves. We have been told to expand our language. November 9-10, 1938 was …