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Reimagining the “Oberammergau Passion Play”

9/13/2022, 12:00 pm

Mosaic representing Christ's Face, in byzantine style. Golden background. It is modern, made by a Sicilian artist, and looks like the Blessing Christ of the Monreale Cathedral or Cefalu' one. The background is made of golden leaf. This image is characteristic for its uniqueness.

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Director Ken Burns (Courtesy photo: LBJ Library)

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“The U.S. and the Holocaust”: An Evening With Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein

9/12/2022, 7:30 pm

Boston Pops Symphony Hall, Boston

$15

Book Talk: “The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power”

9/11/2022, 10:00 am

Temple Emanuel, Newton

Golda Meir (Public domain image)

Free

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Josh Lambert Discusses “The Literary Mafia”

9/9/2022, 12:00 pm

Wellesley Magazine, Fall 2020, Professor Josh Lambert, Septemebr 24, 2020.

Free

(Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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“Three Minutes – A Lengthening” Boston Premiere

Up Next: 9/2/2022, 7:05 pm

Landmark's Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge

$3

“Wartime North Africa” Book Launch

9/1/2022, 6:00 pm

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$10

Jewish Bookshelf: The Six Day War to the Yom Kippur War

9/1/2022, 12:00 pm

Mandel Center for the Humanities, Waltham

(Photo: ILAN BRUNER/Government Press Office)

Free

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“Saving Freud” Book Launch

8/23/2022, 7:00 pm

Ferdinand Schmutzer/Wikimedia Commons)

$10

Embodied Holocaust Education Teen Workshop Series

Up Next: 8/15/2022, 10:00 am

Urbanity Dance, Boston

(Photo: roshinio/iStock)

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10/4/2019 Top Pick

Anti-Semitism: Call It What It Is, Call It Out

Rabbi Michael Ragozin’s sermon from the first day of Rosh Hashanah 5780.

By Rabbi Michael RagozinFor Congregation Shirat Hayam of the North Shore

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10/4/2019 Top Pick

The Art and History of Boston’s 100-Year-Old Vilna Shul

Boston’s oldest immigrant-built synagogue is undergoing a massive restoration.

By WGBH

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10/1/2019 Top Pick

Journalist Traces Grandmother’s Holocaust Rescue

Survivor testimony forms the basis of a new series from the USC Shoah Foundation, as Boston-based Rachael Cerrotti follows the path of her grandmother’s flight from Hitler’s genocide.

By The Times of Israel

Ruth on her 100th birthday (Courtesy photo)

9/26/2019 Top Pick

Holocaust Survivor Celebrates 100th Birthday

JF&CS is excited to announce that our friend Ruth, who we know through our Schechter Holocaust Services program, recently turned 100 years old!

By Jewish Family & Children’s Service

referral. IRINA DANILOVA

9/23/2019 Top Pick

Excavating the Truth in Arlekin’s Spellbinding ‘The Stone’

Across six decades, a single house tells a story of guilt and duplicity in Germany.

By The Boston Globe

Dunya Ensemble performs “Jews and Sufis: Shared Musical Traditions” at the New England Conservatory on Thursday, Sept. 12. From left: Edwin Seroussi, director of the Jewish Music Research Centre; ethnomusicologist Joseph Alpar; Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, director of Dunya Ensemble; Ridvan Aydinli, an Istanbul-based ney (flute) player; and George Lernis, a drummer and world percussionist. (Photo: Rich Tenorio)

9/18/2019 Top Pick

Music Spotlights Coexistence Between Turkish Jews & Muslims

Makam music from the Ottoman Empire is performed at “Jews and Sufis” concert at Jordan Hall.

By Rich TenorioFor JewishBoston

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9/16/2019 Top Pick

How I Found My Bubby in ‘The Auschwitz Album’

Seventy-five years ago this summer, an SS photographer at Auschwitz-Birkenau created one of the Holocaust’s most important but poorly understood primary sources.

By The Times of Israel

A letter in Yiddish from Russian Jewish mother Feiga Shamis to two of her children (Courtesy photo)

9/11/2019 Top Pick

Little-Known Period of Anti-Jewish Massacres Subject of Documentary

By Rich TenorioFor JewishBoston

Michael Gruenbaum (Courtesy photo: Dennis Darling)

9/4/2019 Top Pick

Holocaust Survivor’s Memoir Reaches New Audiences Abroad

Michael Gruenbaum’s Holocaust memoir has struck a chord with publishers abroad.

By JewishBoston

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