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    VIRTUAL PROGRAM With Author Richard Hurowitz, In the Garden of the Righteous 7:00 PM over Zoom Moderated by Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld, CEO, Zekelman Holocaust Center Sponsored By The Second World War took the lives of more than fifty million, more than six million exterminated through crimes of such enormity, a new name to describe the […]

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    VIRTUAL PROGRAM With Author Jonathan Freedland, The Escape Artist Moderated by Rita Benn 12:00 PM over Zoom In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal […]

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    VIRTUAL PROGRAM With Author Andrew Lawler, Under Jerusalem Moderated by Yaron Eliav, Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish History of Late Antiquity, University of Michigan 7:00 PM over Zoom In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he […]