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Scuola Spagnola Sephardic Synagogue, Venice, Italy
View from St. Mark's Square out Church of San Georgio Maggiore and Gondolas, Venice, Italy
Campo de Ghetto Novo Jewish Ghetto, Venice, Italy
Students Walk through the Ghetto Jewish Ghetto, Venice, Italy
Dr. Afridi teaches Students Jewish Ghetto, Venice, Italy
Karski Exhibit Opening Reception https://manhattan.edu/news/holocaust-genocide-and-interfaith-education-center-host-jan-karski-exhibit
Guests gather at Karski exhibit opening reception. https://manhattan.edu/news/holocaust-genocide-and-interfaith-education-center-host-jan-karski-exhibit
Andrzej addresses those gathered at the reception about Karski https://manhattan.edu/news/holocaust-genocide-and-interfaith-education-center-host-jan-karski-exhibit
Rajek Speaks about Karski's life https://manhattan.edu/news/holocaust-genocide-and-interfaith-education-center-host-jan-karski-exhibit
Students admire the Karski exhibit https://manhattan.edu/news/holocaust-genocide-and-interfaith-education-center-host-jan-karski-exhibit
Manhattan College students admire the Karski exhibit https://manhattan.edu/news/holocaust-genocide-and-interfaith-education-center-host-jan-karski-exhibit
Former Director Schweitzer admiring "The World Knew: Jan Karski's Mission for Humanity" https://manhattan.edu/news/holocaust-genocide-and-interfaith-education-center-host-jan-karski-exhibit
"The World Knew: Jan Karski's Mission for Humanity" on display at Manhattan College from February to https://manhattan.edu/news/holocaust-genocide-and-interfaith-education-center-host-jan-karski-exhibit
Carmen-Francesca Banciu Ms. Banciu reads passionately from her post-Communist work "Mother's Day: Song of a Sad Mother"
SchweitzerLecture '16 HGI founder Dr. Frederick Schweitzer addresses the crowd gathered for the lecture presented in his name, on the twentieth anniversary of HGI
Candle's Dr. Afridi leads a candle lighting ceremony as a tribute to victims of other genocides.
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MMandel Professor Dr. Maud Mandel of Brown University Addresses the crowd gathered for her lecture "Is Fraternity Possible: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Contemporary France, History and Reflections"
MMandel2 The crowd gathered for Dr. Mandel's Lecture
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Dr. Schweitzer and NYC City Council Member Eric Dinowitz
HGI 25th Anniversary Gala
Dr. Schweitzer with proclamation commemorating the founding of the Holocaust Resource Center in 1996
Elisha Wiesel
"A Conversation With Wai Wai Nu"
Wai Wai Nu
"Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Europe" Lecture
Dr. Afridi and Dr. Hafez
Sami Steigmann
Sami Steigmann & Dr. Afridi
Rooting Out the Seeds of Hate Lecture
HGI hosting the Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies Annual Conference
Dr Eric Ward giving a Plenary Talk "Antisemitism and Critical Race Theory in America"
Dr. Wendy Lower's Plenary Workshop
The Consortium members and guests visit the Herman and Lea Ziering Archive
Nadine Strossen's Plenary Talk on Free Speech and Misinformation
Dr. Jake W. Newsome
Pink Triangle Legacies Event
Launch of New Voices Book Event
Dr. Afridi & Dr. Georgette Bennett
"How Do They Get Away With It?" Event
Dr. Afridi
Dr. Victoria Barnett
Dr. Simran Jeet Singh Speaking
"The Light We Give" Book Signing
Dr. Zachary Mazur
"Fifty Years at Manhattan College: A Scholar's Life"
Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust"
Adi Rabinowitz Bedein, Dr. Afridi, and students
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Featured speaker: Ron Kronish & Respondents: Rabbi Bob Kaplan and Sheikh Moosa Drammeh Ron Kronish, Founding Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), Ron Kronish is now an independent scholar, educator, speaker, and writer. “Profiles in Peace,” his new book on Israeli and Palestinian Peacemakers. Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish is an independent scholar, writer, blogger, lecturer, teacher and mentor. For the past several years, he has been a Library Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. From 1991-2015, he served as the Founder and Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), which was Israel’s premier interreligious institution during those years. He was educated at Brandeis University (BA), Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the editor of Coexistence and Reconciliation in Israel: Voices for Interreligious Dialogue (Paulist Press, 2015) and the author of The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, A View from Jerusalem, (Hamilton Books 2017). He currently teaches courses about Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding at the Schechter Institutes for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, in the Department for Adult Education and for the Drew University Theological School (via zoom) in Madison, NJ.
Adi Rabinowitz Bedein, Activist & Holocaust Education. Adi is a young activist who lives in Israel and is a tour guide at Yad Vashem, she will lecture on: “Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust- True Heroism.” Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust During the Holocaust the Jewish people were facing 3 options: Passivity, collaboration and Resistance. In my lecture about Resistance during the Holocaust I discuss the meaning of the Jewish resistance- a story about Strength and true Heroism which can teach us so much that is relevant for our everyday life.