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Sunday, March 12 at 1 PM
A Call to Action on Darfur
12 PM Action Fair
1PM Symposium
Participants include:
Keynote Speaker, John Prendergast, Special Advisor, International Crisis Group
Rabbi Lee Bycel, Senior Advisor, Global Strategy, International Medical Corps
Jerry Fowler, Director, Committee on Conscience (USHMM)
Suliman Giddo, Founder & President, Darfur Peace & Development
Mark Hanis, Chief Executive, Genocide Intervention Network
Richard Levine, freelance photographer, International Medical Corps
Kenneth Roth, Director, Human Rights Watch
Dr. Annie Sparrow, Human Rights Watch
Former Marine Captain Brian Steidle,
Save Darfur Coalition
With introductory remarks by Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Participating Organizations:
American Jewish World Service
Amnesty International
Anti-Defamation League
Celebrate Africa Foundation
Darfur Crisis Committee of Brooklyn Parents for Peace
Darfur Rehabilitation Project
Genocide Intervention Network
Help Darfur Now
Human Rights Watch
International Crisis Group
International Medical Corps
Richard Levine, photographer
Save Darfur Coalition
Union for Reform Judaism
In 2003 the Sudanese government ordered the Janjaweed armed militia to begin a campaign of forced evacuation from Darfur, which has escalated into full-scale genocide. As the tragedy is unfolding in the Sudan, response from the international community has been called a moral catastrophe. The Jewish concept of tikkun olam - repairing the world - and knowledge of the current situation in Darfur provokes many questions:
- Is there a humanitarian imperative to reach out to those in need?
- Is it possible to be compassionate and strategic?
- How can Darfur be stabilized?
These questions and others will be explored in this day-long symposium and action fair. Participants will walk away with a better understanding of the current situation in Darfur and the refugee camps in neighboring Chad. Activists, aid workers, thinkers, policy makers, and lay people will provide the tools necessary to raise awareness and take action.
Representatives from Human Rights Watch, the Committee on Conscience (USHMM), the Genocide Intervention Network, and others, will be on hand throughout the day for an action fair in the Museum's education wing.
The Museum will also present a screening of the MTV documentary Translating Genocide: Three Students Journey to Sudan.
Click here for more information.
Free with suggested donation
This program is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Priscilla and Harold Grabino in memory of Rabbi Balfour Brickner and his commitment to social justice.
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Wednesday, March 22, 7 P.M.
FILM
Sentenced to Marriage ( 2004, 65 minutes, video, Hebrew with English subtitles)
Post screening discussion with director Anat Zuria; Rabbi Yonah Reiss, Director, Beth Din of America; Bronya Shaffer, mashpia and Chabad woman; and Susan Aranoff, Agunah activist.
One of Israel's most daring directors explores the limits of Jewish custom and law in this groundbreaking film. Set in Israel's oppressive rabbinical courts, Sentenced to Marriage reveals a reality that seems utterly unimaginable in contemporary American Jewish society.
$10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 students, free for members
Co-sponsored by Jofa
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Sunday, March 26, 2:00 PM
FILM
Double Feature:
Child in Two Worlds: The Story of Jewish War Orphans (60 min., 1993, Betacam SP, English subtitles)
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank (75 minutes, 1988, Betacam SP, English narration and subtitles)
Child in Two Worlds, traces the lives of Jewish children who were sent to live with Christian families during the Holocaust. In his international Emmy Award-winning documentary film, The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, Dutch filmmaker Willy Lindwer explores the fate of Anne Frank and her family after their discovery and deportation by the Nazis. A discussion with Lindwer will follow the screening.
Screened in conjunction with Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust.
$10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 students, free for members
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Wednesday, March 29, 7 P.M.
Modern Memoirs: Who She Was and Omaha Blues
With Sam Freedman, Columbia University School of Journalism, and Joe Lelyveld, Former New York Times executive editor
Join two of New York's most celebrated journalists for a discussion of memory, family, and Jewish identity. In Who She Was, Sam Freedman traces the remarkable life of his mother, who died of cancer at age fifty. Joe Lelyveld, former New York Times executive editor and the son of famed Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, sorts through his father's belongings while ruefully remembering his Cleveland upbringing in Omaha Blues .
$5 all tickets, free for members
This program is part of the Museum's book club, Looking Back, Facing Forward, co-sponsored by the Forward and moderated by its features editor, Gabriel Sanders.
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Sunday, April 2, 2:30 PM
CONCERT
Regina Resnik Presents: Covert or Convert?
A Powerful Expression of the Jewish Spirit
Regina Resnik, narrator; Darynn Zimmer, soprano;
Michael Philip Davis, tenor;
Charles Robert Stephens, baritone; Vlad Iftinca, piano;
Guest artist, David Leisner, guitar
This unique program features the work of Felix Mendelssohn and Anton Rubinstein, converts to Christianity, and Otto Klemperer, a convert back to Judaism, along with unheralded Jewish composers who wrote covertly during the Inquisition, under Communism, and in the Holocaust. Works by Aldo Finzi,
Anton Rubinstein, and others will have their premieres in the Museum's Edmond J. Safra Hall. All of them are powerful expressions of the Jewish spirit. Presented and narrated by opera legend Regina Resnik.
$20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 members/students
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Wednesday, April 5, 7 PM
FILM
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time (2001, 90 min., 35mm)
This beautiful, meditative documentary follows renowned artist Andy Goldsworthy as he sculpts with ice, driftwood, leaves, stones, and dirt. Revealing the profound sense of breathless discovery and risk in Goldsworthy's work, Rivers and Tides captures the essential unpredictability of working with nature. Filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer followed the artist for over a year, intimately documenting his improvisational process and capturing the serene spectacle of his works.
The Garden of Stones, Goldsworthy's only permanent New York City installation is a contemplative space dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and honoring those who survived.
$5 all tickets, free for members
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Sunday, April 9, 12 - 2 PM
COMMUNITY FAMILY SEDER
Led by singer Shira Kline
Presented with The Jewish Community Project of Lower Manhattan (JCP)
Take a Passover journey with music educator and performer Shira Kline. Through storytelling, singing, crafts, and activities, kids and their families are invited to join Shira for an interactive fun-filled community Seder. Search for the Afikomen, reenact the story of Exodus, hunt down the Ten Plagues, all the while learning the rituals of the Passover Seder.
Seating is limited so reserve your family's tickets today.
Light lunch will be served.
For more information please call Stacy Pinero at 646.437.4301.
Advance Ticket Price : $40 per family of 4, $15 per adult, $10 per child
Door Price : $45 per famiy of 4, $20 per adult, $10 per child
Museum Family-Level Members : $35 per family of 4, $10 per adult, $5 per child
JCP is creating a family Haggadah specifically for this Seder and they are looking for children's artwork to fill the pages. Please contact JCP at info@jcpdowntown.org or call 212.334.3522 to have your child's artwork included.
The Museum's collaboration with JCP is made possible by a grant from UJA-Federation of New York.
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Sunday, April 9, 2006, 2:30 PM
Pickman Museum Shop Event
Creating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities
Featuring author David Arnow, Ph.D.
The Passover Seder is not a memorial to an event long ago, rather it is about participating in a conversation that provides hope and strength for the struggle to make tomorrow a brighter day. The retelling of Exodus should be dynamic and unique, and not put everyone to sleep.
Creating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities inspires Seder participants of all ages to encounter central concepts of Judaism in thought-provoking, and stimulating ways. Suggested activities range from re-enacting the march from Egypt to Israel, to opposing and defending the use of plagues against the Egyptians. In this innovative book, readers are encouraged to make the ritual their own, using Passover as an opportunity to better understand and internalize Judaism, freedom, and faith.
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Sunday, April 23, 2006
Annual Gathering of Remembrance
Join with community leaders for New York City's oldest and largest commemoration to honor the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
This year's Annual Gathering of Remembrance will be held at the Hunter College Assembly Hall, 69th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues.
Tickets are required. Please call 646.437.4200, ext 4490 for more information, or email agr@mjhnyc.org . A voluntary contribution of $36 per person is recommended and will entitle you to a ticket. While donations are not required, they will help to defray the cost of the event.
Co-sponsored by the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization, in association with the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. This program is not sponsored by or affiliated with Hunter College. |
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Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is April 25, 2006.
Tuesday, April 25
Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Come to the Museum to remember those who were lost, and learn from those who survived. Hear personal stories from artifact donors, Holocaust survivors, and their families.
Museum admission is complimentary
Donation suggested
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Wednesday, April 26, 7 P.M.
Sun Rays at Midnight (XLibris Press, forthcoming April 2006)
With author Norbert Friedman
A chronicle of life before, during, and after the Holocaust and a unique examination of the spirit of those who endured the darkest days of the twentieth century told through the eyes of one of the period's most astute and insightful observers. Friedman reflects on the many relationships that sustained him through that time -- from the most intimate to the most intricate -- from familial love to his powerful faith in humankind and God.
A survivor of 11 concentration camps, Norbert Friedman was the recipient of the 2001 Louis E. Yavner Citizen Award, given by the New York State Board of Regents in recognition of his outstanding contributions to education about the Holocaust and other violations of Human Rights.
Free with suggested donation
This program is part of the Museum's book club, Looking Back, Facing Forward, co-sponsored by the Forward and moderated by its features editor, Gabriel Sanders.
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Ticket Purchase
On-line: Click on the link listed after each program.
Phone: Call 1.646.437.4202
In Person: Visit the Museum Box Office at 36 Battery Place,
Battery Park City, New York.
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at:
Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
General Information
1.646.437.4200
Advance ticket purchases are recommended. All sales are final.
Phone and internet orders are subject to service charges.
Programs, performers, dates, and times are subject to change.
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