Ohio Council on Holocaust Education sponsors a FREE Ohio Educator Workshop:

Echoes & Reflections

Monday, June 10, 2013
9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Youngstown State University

The training will be facilitated by Sarah Weiss, Executive Director of The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education. Echoes and Reflections is the result of an unprecedented partnership among three leaders in education: the Anti- Defamation League, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and Yad Vashem. This resource includes everything teachers need to teach the complex issues of the Holocaust and its lessons for today.

The Workshop Includes:

• Training and a FREE copy of the Echoes and Reflections Multimedia Curriculum
• Access to lesson plans, primary sources, handouts, pictures, video testimonies, and more
• Presentations by Dr. Helene Sinnreich and a Holocaust Survivor

Full Day Workshop (Includes Lunch)  Space is limited, registration deadline is June 2.
To register, please contact Sarah Weiss at 513-487-3055 or sweiss@holocaustandhumanity.org.
In partnership with The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education

The Jewish Community Center invites you to the

Grand Opening

of the Thomases Family Endowment of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation Art Gallery and

Wine & Cheese Reception

Thursday, May 9th 6:30pm

505 Gypsy Ln., Youngstown

RSVP- 330-746-3250 ext. 108

Bio

David LaBelle is a photographer, editor, teacher, and author. He has worked for 20 newspapers and magazines, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he was assistant managing editor for photography. LaBelle directs the photojournalism program at Kent State University and has taught at Western Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky. In 1991, the National Press Photographers Association honored LaBelle with the Robin F. Garland Award for photojournalism education. LaBelle has written four books, including “The Great Picture Hunt.” Israel’s diverse people and cultures fascinate LaBelle. He created a traveling exhibit of images from the country after a 2012 trip with students from Kent State University.

Special Thanks to: ZOA of Youngstown, Thomases Family Endowment Fund, The Jewish Studies Program at Kent State

Choose from:

Comparative Religious Thought II

PHIL 21021, 3 credit hours
Humanities CORE, Global Diversity Course

Introduction to Jewish Studies

AS 22001, 3 credit hours
Jewish Studies minor requirement

On this trip, students will visit many historic and religious sites studied in the courses.  You can participate in this program even if you are in Israel with birthright or another program.

Contact: 

Prof. David Odell-Scott (Ph.D.), Coordinator Religion Studies, 330-672-2315, dodellsc@kent.edu

Prof. Chaya Kessler, Director Jewish Studies, 330-672-8926, ckessle7@kent.edu

MaltzMuseum

(From Left to Right)
Back Row: Chaya Kessler, Sarah Martin, Tali Merdler, Cecily Mullins, Ranen Reichstein, Julia St. John, Jeff Long, Eric Ritenour, Sol Factor
Front Row: Traci Hoffman, Emily Fullerton, Erica Itzkowitz
Not in picture: Nicholas Hall, Hannah Servedio

Students of the Elementary Hebrew II class and the Intro. to Jewish Studies class visited the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Exhibit “Spots of Light: To be a Woman in the Holocaust.” Direct from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem- The first International exhibition to focus exclusively on women and their experience in the Holocaust. In addition, they also visited the permanent exhibition An American Story and the Temple- Tifereth Israel Gallery.

Free and open to ALL

Tuesday, April 9th 11am-12pm

Room 117 Business Administration Building

Join Professor Kristin Stasiowski for an introduction to Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish chemist & author.  Professor Stasiowski will discuss Primo Levi’s well-known memoir of survival in Auschwitz, If This is a Man, and lead discussion in response to one of the central ideas of the book: human dignity.

sponsored by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages

The Jewish Studies program and the Department of History present the following films about the Holocaust:

La Rafle

Tuesday April 2, 7:00-9:00PM
Michael Schwartz room 177

The film portrays the few weeks in July 1942, when more than 13,000 Parisian Jews, including more than 4,000 children, were rounded up and taken to the now notorious Vel' d'Hiv stadium.

A Day in October

Thursday April 4, 7:00-9:00PM
Michael Schwartz room 177

A fictional story of Danish rescue of Jews that chronicles the courage of a young Jewish woman who risks her life and that of her family by concealing a wounded resistance fighter in their home in 1943 just prior to the Nazi invasion of Denmark.

Free and open to all.