Shanghai Ghetto to Screen at HMLC
The next film in the 2018 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be Shanghai Ghetto, screening at 1 pm on July 29 in the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Theater at 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Films in this Sunday series are free and open to the public. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Martin…
HMLC to Commemorate Tisha B’Av with Special Film Program
The Holocaust Museum & Learning Center will screen a special film commemorating Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av, Sunday, July 22, at 2 pm in the HMLC Theater (12 Millstone Campus Drive, 63146). This date in the Hebrew calendar marks the destruction of both the first and second Temples in…
Sh’ma Listen! Speaker Series Welcomes Dr. Avivah Zornberg
Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Sh’ma Listen! Speaker Series and partners are bringing Dr. Avivah Zornberg to the community May 8-9, 2018. Dr. Zornberg will present two different programs. On Tuesday, May 8 at 7:00 pm, Dr. Zornberg will present “Moses Veiled and Unveiled: The Golden Calf.” The narrative of revelation at Mount Sinai is…
Jewish Identity & Empowerment: Lessons Learned on the IDF Battlefield
Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Sh’ma Listen! Speaker Series and Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School are bringing David Sussman to the community. Sussman will present “Jewish Identity & Empowerment: Lessons Learned on the IDF Battlefield” on Wednesday, February 21 at 7:00 pm at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School. David’s story revolves around the time in…
Have a Fling with SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva
Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Center for Jewish Learning welcomes Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Benay Lappe to St. Louis on Sunday, January 28, 2018. Rabbi Benay Lappe is an award-winning educator, specializing in the application of Queer Theory to Talmud study. She is the founder of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. Rabbi Benay Lappe is an award-winning…
Increasing Anti-Semitism: How Bad Is It? What Can Be Done?
Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Sh’ma Listen! Speaker Series, Anti-Defamation League of St. Louis, United Hebrew Congregation and the Center for Jewish Learning are bringing Ira Forman to the community. Forman will present “Increasing Anti-Semitism: How Bad Is It? What Can Be Done?” on Tuesday, January 9 at 7:00 pm at United Hebrew Congregation, 13788 Conway Road, 63141. In this…
Creative Entries Sought From Students for 15th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for the 2018 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. This is the 15th year that the annual competition has been held in dedication to the memory of the…
Rethinking Red Lines: Towards Values-Based Boundaries in Jewish Communal Life
Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Sh’ma Listen! Speaker Series, Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, the Jewish Community Relations Council and Congregation Shaare Emeth are bringing Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer to the community. Dr. Kurtzer will present “Rethinking Red Lines: Towards Values-Based Boundaries in Jewish Communal Life,” on Tuesday, December 5 at 7:00 pm at Congregation Shaare…
Jews, Palestinians and Israel: Three Historiographies, Three Moralities and Three Roadmaps
The Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Center for Jewish Learning and the Brodsky Library are bringing Professor Chaim Gans, the Joyce Z. Greenberg visiting professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago to the community. Profession Gans is a political philosopher and Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. His research and teaching interests include…