All times given in Eastern Standard Time
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Preventing Genocide OPEN CLASSROOM SERIES: This program is part of our Open Classroom Series, through which we invite the public into our classrooms to learn from guest lecturers alongside our students. The talk will be delivered in webinar format. While we prioritize our students\u2019 participation, non-student participants may ask questions through the Q&A feature.<\/p>\n Donation Presentation from the Cz\u0119stochover Society and Relief Committee<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Wednesday, September 20 at 2:30 PM (Center, LC-215) The Cz\u0119stochover Society and Relief Committee was founded in 1914 as a Landsmannschaft (immigrant association) for Jewish immigrants from Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland in New York City. Its role evolved with the times, particularly after the Holocaust and with the upward mobility and them slow passing of its founding members.<\/p>\n Lea and Harry will return to Ramapo on the evening of October 25th to speak with the campus community and, specifically, with students enrolled in Dr. Labendz\u2019s course, \u201cParadigms of Genocide.\u201d See below for more information.<\/p>\n Ann Hagedorn, Keynote Address for CONTACT Symposium<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Monday, October 9 at 6:00 PM (Hybrid: Friends Hall and Zoom) Ms. Hagedorn will speak about her latest book,\u00a0Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Simon & Schuster, 2021)<\/p>\n Born in Iowa, schooled in science at Columbia University, and as American as baseball, George Koval was the ultimate secret agent. Because he had security clearances to the Manhattan Project, he was able to pass invaluable classified information that helped Soviet scientists produce an atomic bomb years earlier than US experts had expected. The FBI only identified him several years after he had returned to the Soviet Union, and in 2007, Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded him Russia\u2019s highest civilian honor for his contribution to the Soviet atomic bomb program.<\/p>\n This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n Academic Symposium at the Center<\/strong><\/p>\n CONTACT: The Movement and Meeting of Jewish People and Artifacts<\/strong>\u00a0across Cold-War Boundaries<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n October 9 \u2013 11, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n Survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda Speak OPEN CLASSROOM SERIES: This program is part of our Open Classroom Series, through which we invite the public into our classrooms to learn from guest lecturers alongside our students. The talk will be delivered in webinar format. While we prioritize our students\u2019 participation, non-student participants may ask questions through the Q&A feature.<\/p>\n Food and Holocaust Memory Thursday, October 19 at 6:00 PM (Hybrid: Trustees Pavilion 1 and Zoom) In her intergenerational memoir, Ms. Weinfeld weaves her story with that of her grandfather, Poppy. Poppy\u2019s account of loss and rebuilding, layered with Weinfeld\u2019s own journey to self-acceptance in the face of antisemitism, shows readers that trauma does not affect only the individual, but can transcend generations.<\/p>\n Copies of\u00a0From Generation to Generation: A Memoir of\u00a0Food<\/span>, Family, and Identity in the Aftermath of the Shoah<\/i><\/a>\u00a0will be available for sale at the event. Ms. Weinfeld will be available to sign them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Genocide and Diaspora: Cz\u0119stochover Society and Relief Committee<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Wednesday, October 25 at 6:30 PM (Hybrid: Friends Hall and Zoom) The Cz\u0119stochover Society and Relief Committee was founded in 1914 as a Landsmannschaft (immigrant association) for Jewish immigrants from Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland in New York City. Its role evolved with the times, particularly after the Holocaust and with the upward mobility and them slow passing of its founding members.<\/p>\n OPEN CLASSROOM SERIES: This program is part of our Open Classroom Series, through which we invite the public into our classrooms to learn from guest lecturers alongside our students. The talk will be delivered in webinar format. While we prioritize our students\u2019 participation, non-student participants may ask questions through the Q&A feature.<\/p>\n This talk is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n Our Kol\u00edn Scroll: The Legacy of Czech Torahs around the World<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Monday, October 30 at 12:30 PM (YMCA in Wayne)<\/strong> Dr. Labendz will display and discuss the Czech Memorial Scroll from the city of Kol\u00edn, which the Center proudly exhibits in the Special Collections Reading Room, LC-215. Dr. Labendz will share new insights on the meaning and uses of so-called \u201cHolocaust Torahs.\u201d For more information about our\u00a0Kol\u00edn scroll<\/a>, visit our designated webpage.<\/p>\n Jewish Genetic Genealogy: Adina Newman, Cairenn Binder, and David Gurney<\/span> Sunday, November 5 at 2:00 pm (Kol Dorot<\/a>, Oradell)<\/strong> Dr. Adina Newman (My Family Genie<\/a>), renowned expert in Jewish genetic genealogy, will describe the challenges of (investigative) genetic genealogy in the Jewish population. She will also share insights into Jewish genetic genealogy after the Holocaust.<\/p>\n Finally, the presenters will share case studies of now-solved cold cases involving unidentified decedents with Jewish ancestry.<\/p>\n Dr. Newman will make AncestryDNA kits available for free to survivors and their children (2G), with the submission of an application.<\/p>\n Rededication of Holocaust Statue, \u201cOne Man in Memory of Six Million\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday, November 8 at 4:30 PM (Friends Hall \/ Grove) \/ View our Gallery<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Join us for a student-led rededication ceremony for this landmark and symbol, not only of memory but of our commitment to a future free from antisemitism, racism, and bigotries. Last year, Ramapo College\u2019s Student Government Association passed a\u00a0unanimous bill<\/a>\u00a0calling for better lighting and signage for our Holocaust memorial. Judith Peck\u2019s 1973 statue, \u201cOne Man in Memory of Six Million,\u201d was donated in 2010 by Yvonne Mannheimer Lorber in remembrance of the Mannheimer family. Center Advisory Board Member Arthur Barchenko designed and donated the lighting.<\/p>\n Banned Music: Solo Concert by Pianist Itay Goren in Commemoration of Kristallnacht<\/span> Thursday, November 9 at 7:00 PM (Beth Haverim Shir Shalom) In a return appearance at BHSS, renowned pianist and former Ramapo College faculty member Itay Goren will offer a solo piano presentation called \u201cBanned Music.\u201d Mr. Goren will perform and speak about the lives and works of five composers from different nationalities \u2013 Pavel Haas, Erich Korngold, Luigi Dallapiccola, Darius Milhaud and Paul Hindemith, all united by the fact that their music was banned by the Nazis.<\/p>\n Rabbi Ilana Schwartzman (BHSS) will introduce the evening and offer a benediction, after which Center Director will offer framing remarks.<\/p>\n Commemoration Kristallnacht through Music Composed in the Holocaust Ghettos and Camps<\/span> Sunday, November 12 at 7:00 PM (Temple Beth Tikvah, Wayne)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Responsibility to Protect<\/span> Mr. Wilkens will speak to the students in Dr. Labendz\u2019s course, \u201cParadigms of Genocide,\u201d about what he witnessed and did during the Rwandan Genocide. The theme of the week will be the \u201cResponsibility to Protect<\/a>,\u201d a principle adopted by the United Nations after the failure of the international community to intervene to stop multiple genocides in the 1990s.<\/p>\n OPEN CLASSROOM SERIES: This program is part of our Open Classroom Series, through which we invite the public into our classrooms to learn from guest lecturers alongside our students. The talk will be delivered in webinar format. While we prioritize our students\u2019 participation, non-student participants may ask questions through the Q&A feature.<\/p>\n Transitional Justice after Genocide <\/span> OPEN CLASSROOM SERIES: This program is part of our Open Classroom Series, through which we invite the public into our classrooms to learn from guest lecturers alongside our students. The talk will be delivered in webinar format. While we prioritize our students\u2019 participation, non-student participants may ask questions through the Q&A feature.<\/p>\n “Human Rights Law at 75: Promises and Challenges\u201d Monday, December 4 at 5:00 PM in Pavilion 1<\/strong> Moderator:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Mihaela Serban Mengele Would Say Please to Me\u00a0<\/em>\/\u00a0Mengele mi \u0159\u00edkal pros\u00edm<\/em>\u00a0(2023) Monday, January 29 at 7:00 pm at the JCC on the Palisades Gaming and the Holocaust with Luc Bernard<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Monday, February 12 at 7:00 pm via Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n This presentation will be the first in a series of five webinars exploring the theme of New Technologies, Holocaust Education, and Antisemitism.<\/em><\/p>\n Luc Bernard designs popular video games. His most recent creation is\u00a0A Light in the Darkness<\/em><\/a>, which is available for free through Epic Games. The game tells the story of a working-class family of Polish Jews in France during the Holocaust, and is considered the first video game to portray the Holocaust accurately.\u00a0A Light in the Darkness<\/em>\u00a0promotes empathy a path to historical understanding and has been played throughout the word. Bernard has also built a model Holocaust museum,\u00a0Voices of the Forgotten<\/em><\/a>, in the virtual universe of the popular Fortnite platform. Since then, he has been sought after to help prominent Holocaust museum expand their reach by moving into digital space.<\/p>\n The Recent Ethnic Cleansing of 120,000 Artsakh Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh<\/span> Wednesday, February 21 at 7:00 pm via Zoom Edwin Black, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Antisemitism<\/span> Wednesday, March 6 at 7:00 pm via Zoom Artificial Intelligence holds many untold promises for humanity. This lack of certainty has the potential both to excite and terrify. Edwin Black, noted historian and public speaker, will lead us in a discussion of AI\u2019s potential to affect the spread and mitigation of antisemitism.<\/p>\n Countering AI Antisemitism in Theory and Practice<\/span> Sunday, March 10 at 11:00 am via Zoom As a follow up to our discussion with Edwin Black, we will host Dr. Ildik\u00f3 Barna (E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Budapest) and Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor (CEO of\u00a0Cyberwell<\/a>, Israel) for a discussion of how to identify and combat antisemitism in a world increasingly influenced by Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat do Russians Think about the War in Ukraine?\u201d<\/span> Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory & Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany<\/em><\/span> Tuesday, March 26 at 7:00 pm at Ramapo College, ASB 136 and via Zoom Panel Discussion: \u201cWhose Story is it to Tell?\u201d<\/span> The Panel Dr. Jessica Carr<\/strong><\/a>, Assoc. Professor of Religious Studies at Lafayette College Moderated by\u00a0Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz<\/strong>, Director of the Center<\/p>\n Panel Discussion: \u201cResistance or Resilience? Religious Belief and Practice in the Face of Oppression\u201d<\/span> Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 pm via Zoom We ask:\u00a0What, if anything, distinguishes\u00a0resistance<\/span>\u00a0from resilience? How have theologians and practitioners adapted their traditions to the conditions of oppression, and what have been the consequences of such changes? What wisdom survives to inform the future, when oppression abates or changes in nature? Can practitioners make their wisdom and experiences intelligible to outsiders, including our former oppressors, without adopting the majority\u2019s frameworks of historical and religious perception? What is lost if we do not meet this challenge? Are their universal lessons to be found in our particularity?<\/p>\n Featuring:<\/p>\n Dr. Ryan McLaughlin, Chair of Theology at St. Elizabeth University Moderated by Dr. Richard Quinlan, St. Elizabeth University<\/p>\n Cosponsored with\u00a0Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education<\/a>\u00a0at St. Elizabeth University<\/em>.<\/p>\n Accenture: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Holocaust Research<\/span>
\nTallan Donine, USHMM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Wednesday, September 6 at 6:30 PM (Zoom only)
\n<\/strong>The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\u00a0teaches that the Holocaust was preventable and that by heeding warning signs and taking early action, individuals and governments can save lives. With this knowledge, the\u00a0Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide\u00a0works to do for the victims of genocide today what the world failed to do for the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. The mandate of the Simon-Skjodt Center is to alert the United States\u2019 national conscience, influence policy makers, and stimulate worldwide action to prevent and work to halt acts of genocide or related crimes against humanity, and advance justice and accountability. Learn more at\u00a0ushmm.org\/genocide-prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Represented by Lea Wolinetz and Harry Rapaport, the\u00a0Cz\u0119stochover Society and Relief Committee\u00a0<\/a>will present a significant donation to the Center. With this small ceremony, we mark the beginning of what we know will be a lasting relationship between our two organizations. The Center is honored to help keep the memory of Jewish Cz\u0119stochowa alive for future generations. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Acclaimed author and journalist,\u00a0Ann Hagedorn<\/a>, will deliver the keynote address for a scholarly symposium to be held at Ramapo College, October 9 \u2013 11, \u201cCONTACT: The Meeting and Movement of Jewish People and Artifacts across Cold-War Boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Cover](\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/Sleeper-Agent-Cover-197x300.jpg\")
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\nWith Providence Umugwaneza and Erick Nkurunziza<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/Providence-Photo-291x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Wednesday, October 11 at 6:30 PM (Zoom only)<\/strong>
\nProvidence Umugwaneza and Erick Nkurunziza will speak with Ramapo students about their experiences and those of their relatives during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. To prepare for the discussion, students will read Ms. Umugwaneza\u2019s memoir,\u00a0Next Couple of Hours\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Cider Spoon, 2021). We encourage webinar participants to do so as well. Ms. Umugwaneza and Mr. Nkurunziza will visit Ramapo College on April 17, 2023 for a memorial commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.<\/p>\n
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\nWith Michelle Weinfeld\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Michelle Weinfeld wrote a beautiful memoir about her grandfather\u2019s experience surviving the Holocaust, the life lessons he imparted to her, and how being the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor has influenced her Jewish identity. Communion around food and cooking, as well as the power of food to build bridges of intergenerational memory, will be central to our discussion.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/09\/From-Generation-to-Generation-204x300.jpg\")
<\/a>With its heartfelt anecdotes of family holidays, gripping stories of survival, and painful realizations about identity,\u00a0From Generation to Generation\u00a0<\/span>is a universal story of overcoming adversity and not falling victim to negative experiences. Readers will find Poppy to be the grandfather figure they need, learning from his wisdom, his recipes, and his beautiful bond with his granddaughter.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Lea Wolinetz and Harry Rapaport return to Ramapo Campus to speak about the history of Jews in and from Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland. Mr. Rapaport will share his family\u2019s story of murder and survival, which motivated his efforts to rescue Torah scrolls hidden by the Jews of Cz\u0119stochowa during the Holocaust. Ms. Wolinetz will offer a history of the diaspora of Cz\u0119stochowa Jews, before and after the war. Their talk will help our students understand the lasting and global legacies of genocide with a focus on the diasporas it often creates. Our speakers represent the\u00a0Cz\u0119stochover Society and Relief Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Dr. Jacob Labendz will address the weekly Lunch and Learn series at the\u00a0Wayne YMCA<\/a>, which offers a robust slate of Jewish programming in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Join us to mark and memorialize the eighty-fifth anniversary of\u00a0Kristallnacht<\/a>\u00a0(or Reichspogromnacht), a nationwide pogrom perpetrated by the Nazis and their supporters against the Jewish population of the German Reich on November 9-10, 1938.<\/p>\n![\"Black](\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/Destroyed_Ohel_Yaaqov_Synagogue.jpeg\")
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\nPerformed and Presented by Dr. Tamara Rips Freeman<\/span>
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<\/a>Tamara Reps Freeman, D.M.A., is the musicologist of the Association of Holocaust Organizations. She is an adjunct professor of Holocaust music, culture, and education at Yeshiva University, Cali School of Music, Montclair State University, and Saint Elizabeth University. Her dissertation is our country\u2019s sole interdisciplinary Holocaust music education curriculum for grades Kindergarten through high school. Dr. Freeman, a concert violist, performs lecture recitals of music composed in WWII ghettos and concentration camps on her 1935 Joseph Bausch viola, which was rescued from Berlin in 1942. For more, see:\u00a0www.HolocaustMusic.org.<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nWith Carl Wilkens, World Outside My Shoes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/Carl_Wilkens_22.jpg\")
<\/a>Wednesday, November 15 at 6:30 PM (Zoom only)<\/strong>
\nCarl Wilkens\u00a0is an American Christian missionary and the former head of the\u00a0Adventist Development and Relief Agency International\u00a0in Rwanda. In 1994, he was the only American who chose to remain in the country after the\u00a0Rwandan genocide began (Wikipedia). Mr. Wilkens established\u00a0World Outside My Shoes<\/a>\u00a0\u201cto equip and inspire people of all ages to build trusting relationships through restorative thinking and practices.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nWith Dr. Mihaela Serban<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Picture](\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/Mihaela-Serban.jpg\")
<\/a>Wednesday, November 29 at 6:30 PM (Zoom only)<\/strong>
\nProf. Mihaela Serban (Law and Society, Ramapo College) will speak to the students of Dr. Labendz\u2019s course, \u201cParadigms of Genocide\u201d about how societies can repair themselves and return to functionality after genocide. How can justice be achieved after such a grievous crime and what does that mean in this context? How can rifts soaked in blood be rejoined? How have perspectives on these questions developed over time? What lessons may we glean from the history of genocide and recovery?<\/p>\n
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\nThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is 75 years old this year. How many of its original promises have been fulfilled? What kind of challenges has it encountered? Three panelists will provide an overview of human rights both globally and in the US since its signing: Jinee Lokaneeta from Drew University, Atieh Babakhani from Ramapo College, and Jean Carmalt from John Jay College. The event is moderated by Dr. Mia Serban, Ramapo College, and co-sponsored by SSHS, HGS, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.<\/p>\n
\nPanelists:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Jinee Lokaneeta (Drew University), Dr. Atieh Babakhani (Ramapo College), and Jean Carmalt (John Jay College)<\/p>\n
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\nDocumentary Screening & Discussion <\/strong><\/span>with Director Martin Slune\u010dko<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThis documentary film from director Martin Slune\u010dka tells the unbelievable story of Artur Radvansk\u00fd, who survived six concentration camps and, in Auschwitz, served for a few years as Mengele\u2019s assistant. The two returned to Auschwitz, so that Radvansk\u00fd could fulfill the promise he made to his friends to tell their stories. Radvansk\u00fd survived to become an influential leader of the Jewish community in the Czech lands after the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>In October 2023, clashes with the Azerbaijan army led to the ethnic cleansing of some 120,000 ethnic Armenians from the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Media coverage has been sparse, matching the response from the international community.\u00a0Dr. Heghnar Watenpaugh<\/a>\u00a0will address this current crisis and place it in historical perspective.<\/p>\n
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\nWith Arsenii Pogosian<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/strong>A discussion about unjust wars and difficult choices, moderated by Professor Mia Serban. Co-sponsored by the Law and Society Speaker Series, SSHS, Phi Alpha Delta, and the Center.<\/div>\n
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<\/a>The Center and the MA program in Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Stockton University are cosponsoring a four-stop (three state) lecture tour for\u00a0Professor Esra \u00d6sy\u00fcrek<\/a>\u00a0of the University of Cambridge. She will discuss her latest book,\u00a0Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory & Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Stanford University Press, 2023). The study explores when, how, and why Muslim Germans have moved to the center of Holocaust memory discussions. Esra \u00d6zy\u00fcrek argues that German society \u201csubcontracts\u201d guilt of the Holocaust to new minority immigrant arrivals, with the false promise of this process leading to inclusion into the German social contract and equality with other members of postwar German society.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The sad but inevitable passing of the survivor generation, in the immediate future, has raised a number of anxious questions for educators and the Jewish community. Who will tell\u2014indeed, who may tell\u2014the story of the Holocaust in the absence of witnesses and survivors? The Center is convening a panel of authors and memory activists to provide perspective on this question and the future of memory work and representation.<\/div>\n
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\nDr. Meryl Ain<\/strong><\/a>, Author, Novelist, and Educator
\nAaron Ginns<\/strong><\/a>, Education & Outreach Director, 3GNY (Third Generation New York)<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>As a sense of urgency and crisis pervades national and global politics, many worry for our shared future. This includes communities that have faced and continue to struggle against oppression. In this program, we turn to leaders from such communities for guiding wisdom and perspective. Our panel places into active discussion scholars and clergy from different ethno-religious traditions, as we explore the role of faith and religious practice among and within communities subjected to historical and ongoing oppression.<\/p>\n
\nRev. Craig Dunn, Sr. Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Madison
\nDr. Jacob Labendz, Center Director<\/p>\n
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