Apr 23, 2019 | Programs & Events
“To Listen to a Witness Is to Become a Witness: Why We Speak” will be the theme for the annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, May 5, at 4 pm. The Holocaust Remembrance Day event will feature eyewitness accounts of the Shoah from survivors and witnesses. Featured...
Apr 3, 2019 | Programs & Events
Congregation Temple Israel and the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center are bringing seven-time Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner to town for a concert reading of The Soap Myth on Thursday, May 2. The Soap Myth takes place more than a half-century after the end of...
Mar 28, 2019 | Programs & Events
More than a half century after WWII at the desperate urging of a passionate survivor, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same story. Played out against the backdrop of deadline reporting and journalistic integrity, the...
Mar 5, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
The 2019 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will feature “The Ritchie Boys,” a fascinating documentary telling the little-known story of Jewish refugees from Austria, Romania, and Germany who volunteer to fight the Nazis. Realizing their...
Feb 28, 2019 | News, Programs & Events
The second Gregor’s Violin recital comes March 17 with an added bonus: the opportunity to wish a happy 100th birthday to Szyfra Braitberg, Gregor’s wife. The ongoing exhibit tells the story of Gregor (z”l) and Szyfra’s struggle and survival during the Holocaust and...
Feb 27, 2019 | News, Programs & Events
“To Listen to a Witness Is to Become a Witness” and “Why We Speak” will be the themes for the annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, May 5, at 4 pm. The Holocaust Remembrance Day event will feature eyewitness accounts of the Shoah from survivors and witnesses....
Feb 8, 2019 | Film Screenings, Programs & Events
The 2019 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will present the 2014 documentary The Yatzkans, directed by Anna-Celia Kendall, for its February showing. “What to do with all of my mother’s stuff and that beat-up piano?” asks the filmmaker. In this...
Feb 8, 2019 | Lectures, Programs & Events
Dr. Jan Grabowski will discuss the complicity of the Polish “blue” policemen in the persecution and murder of Polish Jewry during the Annual Gale Lecture, scheduled for Sunday, March 10, at the Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Dr. Grabowski will also...
Feb 4, 2019 | News, Programs & Events
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for the 2019 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. This is the 16th year that the annual...