Events in Your Community (May 1 – 31, 2023)
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
PAST JAHM COMMUNITY EVENTS
WEEK OF MAY 1
America’s Poets Encounter the Past, for the Sake of the Future
5/1/2023 8 PM EDT
Cost: FREE event
Selection of readings by noted contributors to the book New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust and a conversation about the importance of this groundbreaking work the Jewish Book Council calls a “remarkable volume.” Click here for details and to register
Organized by: New Voices Project, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Dramatic Reading of Avraham and Mary
5/3/2023 7 PM EDT
Cost: $5 general public
Avraham and Mary: A Historical Fiction of My Immigrant Grandparents is a historical novel based on family stories of Sherry Fishman’s grandparents, who immigrated to the U.S. from what is now Belarus in the early years of the 20th century. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, OR
The American Way: Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe
5/4/2023 12:00 PM PDT
Cost: FREE virtual event
Join AJU and authors of The American Way to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month. Hear the incredible true story of a forgotten piece of history involving old Hollywood, comic books, and the Holocaust. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Maven: Spirited by American Jewish University
Monsters and Miracles: Horror, Heroes and the Holocaust
5/4/2023 3 PM EDT
Cost: Free
Online Event: Author Ira Kitmacher discusses his book Monsters and Miracles. Al Kitmacher and Pearl Harris were heroes. In WWII, Al led his Jewish family to temporary safety, and through miracles he survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi death camps. Pearl, with her military service in the Navy WAVES, helped fellow Jews who were suffering at the hands of the Nazis. The author’s family, who were lost to the Holocaust, are given a voice by recreating their lives in Nazi Europe. Click here for details and to register.
Organized by: National Museum of American Jewish Military History, Washington, DC
Detroit’s Kosher Meat Riot of 1910
5/4/2023 7 PM EDT
Cost: FREE event
In May 1910, Detroit’s Kosher meat prices soared. Inspired by their New York counterparts, local Jewish women organized a boycott and riot, even opening a co-op market for the community. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, Farmington Hills, MI
Theatrical Reading of “For Love”
5/7/2023 2 PM EDT
Cost: $5 general public
The play was inspired by the story of David Fuks’ parents who were survivors of the Holocaust. It is also a tribute to the memory of Fuks’ younger sister (of blessed memory). “For Love” is both humorous and poignant. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, OR
WEEK OF MAY 8
Finding Hope After The Holocaust: Portraits of Resilience
5/9/2023 12:00 PM PDT
Cost: FREE virtual event
Author B.A Van Sise and AJU’s Michael Berenbaum discuss a photographic chronicle of 90 Holocaust survivors and their stories of resilience and hope in achieving the American Dream. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Maven: Spirited by American Jewish University
Encountering the Sublime: The Art of Maurice Schmidt | Guest Lecturer Laura Huckaby
5/11/2023 6 PM CDT
Cost: FREE event
MSJE welcomes guest lecturer Laura Huckaby, Curator and Assistant Director of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas, for a discussion of our current Special Exhibition, “God, Goats and Pickup Trucks: Maurice Schmidt’s Visions of Texas.” Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, New Orleans, LA
The American Way
5/11/2023 6:30 PM PDT
Cost: FREE event
In this exuberant real-life adventure written by Bonnie Siegler and Helene Stapinski, the publisher of DC Comics comes to the rescue of a family trying to flee Nazi Berlin, their lives linking up with a dazzling cast of 20th century icons, all eagerly pursuing the American dream. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Holocaust Museum LA, Los Angeles, CA
We Are Working for a Healthy Generation: A Lecture Marking a Century Since the Reorganization of the JDC and its Transformation into a Permanent Organization to Meet the Needs of World Jewry, led by Dr. Jonathan Sarna
5/12/2023 12 PM EDT
Cost: FREE event
During World War I, the founders of JDC assumed that the organization would be temporary. Instead, JDC responded to new conditions and transformed its mission from wartime relief to sustained support of suffering Jews abroad. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), New York, NY
WEEK OF MAY 15
Celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month: Mazal Tov New York
5/15/2023 6 PM EDT
Cost: Free
Celebrate the spirit of Jewish culture through the world of dance and music in this traditional Jewish dance and music show based in New York City. This event is for Late Elementary (9-11 years), Tweens (12-13 years), and Teens (14-17 years). The event will take place at the Pikeville Branch of Baltimore County Public Library. Click here for more information and to register.
Organized by: Baltimore County Public Library, Towson, Maryland
Jewish Cook Book Series: Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish
5/16/2023 7 PM EDT
Cost: FREE event
The award-winning author Cathy Barrow presents her most recent cookbook, Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish. Learn how to perfect the classic bagel, homemade schmears, deli mainstays, and specialty bagel sandwiches. In this lively presentation, she will not only relate the life experiences and practical knowledge that brought her to the world of cookbook-writing, but also demonstrate how to make 3 delicious schmears. Wait ’til you see how easy it is to make lox at home! Click here for details and to register.
Organized by: Mayerson JCC, Cincinnati, OH
Understanding Antisemitism: The Past Meets the Present
5/17/23 10 am EDT
Cost: Free
Note: this event is for State of Michigan Employes and Contractors
Join the State of Michigan Equity and Inclusion Officers in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the virtual event, “Understanding Antisemitism: The Past Meets the Present”. President Biden formed a group to coordinate government efforts to counter antisemitism and other forms of hate and bias. Its first order of business is developing a national strategy to counter antisemitism. This talk, by an award-winning author and scholar, Pamela Nadell, during Jewish American Heritage Month, asks questions critical to this initiative. Who are the Jews? What is antisemitism? When and where has it burst out in the American past? How is it manifested today? How can reflecting on the past inform the future?
State of Michigan Employees: Register Here
State of Michigan Contractors: Register Here
Celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month: Mazal Tov New York
5/19/2023 2 PM EDT
Cost: Free
Celebrate the spirit of Jewish culture through the world of dance and music in this traditional Jewish dance and music show based in New York City. This event is for Late Elementary (9-11 years), Tweens (12-13 years), and Teens (14-17 years). Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. The event will take place at the Towson Branch of Baltimore County Public Library. Click here for details and to register.
Organized by: Baltimore County Public Library, Towson, Maryland
Maine Jewish Hall of Fame 2023 Induction
5/21/2023 3 PM EDT
Cost: FREE event for virtual attendees
The Maine Jewish Hall of Fame bestows recognition on outstanding Maine Jewish leaders who have brought distinction and honor to the State of Maine and beyond. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME
WEEK OF MAY 22
Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
5/23/2023 12 PM PT
Cost: FREE event
Join author Susan Blumberg-Kason, who will talk about her book Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (forthcoming, Post Hill Press, November 2023). This biography of Bernardine Szold Fritz traces her experiences moving to and living in Shanghai in 1929, and her perspective as a Jewish salon host who engaged with Chinese and expats “around the arts as the civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon.” Presented in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Chinese American Librarians Association and Association of Jewish Libraries
3GNY Interfaith Panel: Married to a 3G
5/23/2023 8 PM EDT
Cost: Free
Please join 3GNY virtually for an intimate panel discussion on 3Gs in interfaith marriages, as part of our Jewishness, Activism and Belonging series. Click here for details and to register.
Organized by: 3GNY, New York, NY
Book Launch & Author Talk: “The Weight of History, the Power of Apology”
5/24/2023 6 PM CDT
Cost: FREE event
How do you right an historic wrong? Can you ever really accept reparations for the evils of the past? Fifty years after the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre, Cajun author Warren Perrin explores the devastating terror attack and the murder – and legacy – of one athlete in particular, Jewish Tulane weightlifter David Berger, in his new book, “The Weight of History, the Power of Apology.” Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, New Orleans, LA
Social Practice Institute Virtual Artist Talks
5/25/2023 7 PM EDT
Cost: FREE event
The GCJM Social Practice Institute and artist residency trains Jewish identifying southern-based artists in the pedagogy of socially engaged art practice alongside a curriculum of Jewish thought leadership. Following the training, the artists then design and carry out a social practice artwork that intersects with and engages the Jewish communities in their southern-based hometowns. Click here for details and to register
Organized by: Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, Greensboro, SC