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SUMMARY:2024 Annual Event
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Haviv Rettig Gur \n\n \nAbout the speaker: Haviv Rettig Gur is a veteran Israeli journalist who serves as senior analyst for The Times of Israel and is also a frequent guest on the Call Me Back and The Times of Israel podcasts. He has covered Israel’s politics and foreign policy since 2005\, reported from over 20 countries\, served as director of communications for the Jewish Agency for Israel\, Israel’s largest NGO\, and taught at prestigious premilitary academies.  \nHaviv Rettig Gur will address the narratives Israelis and Palestinians hold about each other and why these often-false stories are the greatest obstacle to resolving the conflict. Rettig Gur will argue the necessity for Israelis and Palestinians to honestly understand the other’s identity and rooted connection to the same small patch of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.  \n\nYour support is more important than ever. \nSince the devastating atrocities committed on October 7th\, the JCRC has assumed the responsibility of being our community’s primary first responder in confronting an unprecedented and unrelenting surge in antisemitism while also serving as the consensus public affairs voice in support of Israel. Our annual event is JCRC’s single largest fundraiser and your support enables us to continue our vitally important work. \nEvent Details: \nSunday\, June 2\, 2024  \nDowntown Minneapolis \nEvening event \n5:30 p.m. – Reception on the outdoor covered patio (Light kosher-style dinner and beverages served) \n7:00 p.m. – Program featuring Haviv Rettig Gur (Program to be held indoors) \n8:15 p.m. – Outdoor reception resumes (dessert served) \n9:00 p.m. – Evening concludes  \nDressy Casual Attire – dress comfortably for the weather (outdoor reception on covered patio and indoor program) \nPurchase Tickets \nSpace is limited. If you can join us\, we encourage you to purchase your tickets early. All tickets include a light dinner\, beverage\, a seat for the program\, and complimentary parking.  A kosher meal is available upon request. $500.00 tickets include premium seating and in-depth breakfast briefing with Haviv Rettig Gur on Monday\, June 3\, 2024\, 8:30 am. \n  \nBecome a Sponsor \nSee full details on becoming a Platinum ($10\,000)\, Gold ($5\,000) or Silver ($3\,000) sponsor of The Annual Event. As a sponsor you will receive 10 preferred seating admissions\, 2 admissions to an in-depth breakfast briefing with Haviv Rettig Gur\, and extensive visibility in the advertising and marketing spaces of this event. To reserve your sponsorship or ask questions\, please contact Nina Afremov at 612.677.2330 or nina@minndakjcrc.org. \n  \nIf you are unable to join us this year\, please consider making a contribution. Our annual event is JCRC’s single largest fundraiser and your support enables us to continue our vitally important work. \n       Donate          \n  \nThank you to our generous sponsors \n \n  \nBecome a Sponsor \nSee full details or contact Nina Afremov at 612.677.2330 or nina@minndakjcrc.org \n 
URL:https://minndakjcrc.org/event/2024-annual-event/
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: What's your story? Listening session on Jewish experiences in education
DESCRIPTION:The listening session has been postponed to a later date to be announced.  \nJCRC invites students\, parents\, and educators for a listening session with U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger to share how the October 7 terror attacks and the Israel-Hamas war have impacted K-12 and higher educational spaces. \nComplete our survey\nWhether or not you plan to attend the listening session\, we invite you to complete this optional anonymous survey to help guide JCRC’s ongoing education\, advocacy\, and relationship-building work to combat antisemitism and create communities where Jews experience safety and belonging over isolation and fear.
URL:https://minndakjcrc.org/event/whats-your-story-listening-session-luger/
CATEGORIES:Combatting Antisemitism,Israel Education and Engagement
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SUMMARY:The Power of Place: 2024 JCRC Educator European Summer Institute
DESCRIPTION:The Power of Place\n2024 JCRC Educator European Summer Institute\nJune 17 – 29\, 2024\nVisit Warsaw\, Berlin and Prague \nApplications due Feb. 25\, 2024 \n“Space stands as a witness to what happened.”\n– Yitskhok Rudashevski\, diary excerpt\, Salvaged Pages \n\n\n\n\n\n$2\,425.00 + international airfare per person\n(based on double room occupancy for hotel stays)\n+ mandatory travel insurance \n\n\n\n\n$3\,425.00 + international airfare per person\n(based on single room occupancy for hotel stays)\n+ mandatory travel insurance \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessional/Continuing Education credits for K-12 educators available through Minnesota State University\, Mankato.\nEach participant will be contacted by a trip leader to arrange airfare and must purchase their own travel insurance.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we travel to authentic\, historical sites to better understand the events of the Holocaust\, WWII\, antisemitism\, as well as Jewish life today. Research has shown that traveling to authentic sites is an effective tool in moving people from empathy to action. In addition to gaining personal insight and knowledge\, your students and community will benefit as you bring the lessons and experience home.   \n JUNE 2024 ITINERARY: \nJune 17 (overnight flight from U.S. to Warsaw) \nJune 18 – 28 (on the ground in Europe) \nJune 29 (flight home from Prague to U.S.)   \n Warsaw\, Poland: 4 nights (Sofitel Warsaw Victoria)\nBerlin\, Germany: 4 nights (Westin Grand Berlin)\nPrague\, Czech Republic: 3 nights (Hotel Rott Prague) \nBreakfast included daily at each hotel.   \nWe will have walking tours in each city with professional\, local guides. Charter busses will transfer us to additional sites and will also be our transportation between countries. \nWARSAW: \nWarsaw Ghetto remnants\, Treblinka Museum (former killing center in Nazi-occupied Poland)\, Jewish Historical Institute – Emanuel Ringelblum Archive\, Żabiński villa (original villa from “The Zoo Keeper’s Wife”)\, POLIN Museum of Jewish History\, Lodz   \nYAHAD-IN UNUM (“Holocaust by Bullets” – Father Patrick Desbois) – Spend one full day in the field with Yahad-In Unum staff members as we trace the footsteps of Jews who lived in Polish communities that were destroyed by the Nazis. Through archival research and in-field investigations\, which include interviews with non-Jewish eyewitnesses to the Nazi crimes\, they seek to identify each execution site and mass grave – remembering that each person has a name and a story and deserves to be remembered and memorialized. To this day\, the organization has interviewed 7\,925 non-Jewish eyewitnesses across Eastern Europe\, and it has identified 3\,293 mass graves. The one day in the field will give us an opportunity to investigate the fate of  two specific Jewish communities: to visit the sites of their life and death\, to analyze the archival sources and to listen to eyewitness testimonies. \nYIU – Father Patrick Desbois – His story \nBERLIN: \nSite of Nazi Book Burning\, Checkpoint Charlie\, Reichstag\, Topography of Terror\, Wannsee House (where Nazi leaders met to discuss “The Final Solution”)\, Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Site\, Kindertransport Memorial\, Berlin Jewish Museum \nPRAGUE:  \nJewish Quarter\, Terezin Memorial and Ghetto Museum – spend a full day here with Education staff and guides\, Lidice\, and end our European Summer Institute with a 2-hour private river cruise along the Vltava River.   \nPrerequisite includes attending three intro sessions via zoom beginning in 2024. Post requisite asks participants to design a project and/or program that furthers Holocaust awareness in their own community and communicate with the JCRC through photos\, summaries\, and reflections. \nMeet your trip leaders:  \nLaura Zelle\nDirector of Holocaust Education\, Jewish Community Relations Council of MN and the Dakotas (JCRC) \nLaura is director of Tolerance MN and Holocaust Education at JCRC where she has been on staff since 2005. Laura oversees programming including writing grants and delivering curriculum\, educator workshops\, speakers\, and film showings. She has been responsible for the vision and creation of numerous educational resources. Tolerance Minnesota was awarded the 2018 “Presidents’ Community Partner Award” from Normandale Community College. \n  \nKristin Thompson  \nFounding Director\,  Humanus Network\, Holocaust and Human Rights Education Consulting \nKristin is currently the founding director of Humanus Network. Previously\, she was a classroom history teacher (19-yrs) in MN and Education Program Coordinator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C. (5 1/2 yrs) where her primary task was training teachers in Holocaust education. \n  \nKyle Ward  \nDirector of Social Studies Education at Minnesota State University\, Mankato\n \nKyle Ward is the Director of Social Studies Education at Minnesota State University\, Mankato.  Along with working with future Social Studies teachers\, he also teaches classes on US History and World War II and the Holocaust.  He began his career as a middle/high school Social Studies teacher before working at the university level.  He earned his PhD from Indiana State University and has written on\, and researched topics related to World War II and historiography/historical thinking.   \n  \nSusie Greenberg\nAssociate Director of Holocaust Education\n \nSusie Greenberg\, Associate Director of Holocaust Education\, has spent the last 15 years working at the JCRC\, devoting much of her time planning\, facilitating\, and implementing programming around Holocaust education and remembrance. Susie focuses on the Twin Cities community and beyond  via an active speakers’ bureau\, community trainings\, charter trips to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\, the annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration (Holocaust Remembrance Day)\, and more. Additionally\, she co-curated Transfer of Memory\, a traveling photography exhibit about Minnesota Holocaust survivors\, and coordinated and supervised the exhibition\, Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War in Minneapolis and curated the accompanying local component\, The Story is Here.  \n  \nFor more info contact:  Laura@minndakjcrc.org
URL:https://minndakjcrc.org/event/the-power-of-place-2024-jcrc-educator-european-summer-institute/
CATEGORIES:Holocaust Education & Remembrance
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