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Third Thursdays: IHE Lunch and Learn What’s so Jewish about baseball? Page 2
SCOTT LITTKY Executive Director,Institute For Holocaust Education he Institute for Holocaust Education is pleased to announce a new educational learning opportunity that will begin on Thursday, Nov. 19, titled, Third Thursdays: IHE Lunch and Learn. On the third Thursday of each month from noon until 1:30 p.m., IHE will offer different educational opportunities for the community to learn about different topics involved in both Holocaust education and topics of interest on subjects involving the Holocaust. For the foreseeable future the classes will be offered on Zoom. Facilitation of the third Thursdays: IHE Lunch and Learn series will be with Scott Littky, Executive Director and Kael Sagheer, Education Coordinator of IHE, along with different experts of various topics. For the first month on Nov. 19, please join us for our discussion on How Humor Helped Heal The Pain Of The Holocaust. Together on Zoom we will view a short lecture from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In this
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Temple Israel welcomes Dr. Gary Zola
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presentation, Dr. Edna Freidberg, Historian at the USHMM, speaks with Ferne Pearlstein, director of The Last Laugh, to explore how humor kept the human spirit alive during the Holocaust and helped some survivors heal. Jewish come-
dian Robert Clary, who was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp and later acted in the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, says that making people laugh during the Holocaust saved his life. Humor helped some people cope See IHE Lunch and Learn page 3
Join Beth Israel for The Shabbat Project
MARY SUE GROSSMAN For several years, an initiative has promoted the beauty and magic of celebrating a full Shabbat in early November. Traditionally, individuals and synagogues strove to fill Shabbat tables and offer learning sessions embracing the more and more lost art of truly enjoying Shabbat.
Beth Israel Synagogue has promoted The Shabbat Project for many years, frequently hosting Shabbat dinners filling the synagogue social hall. As with so many happenings in our lives, things will look differently this year. Despite the fact there will be no live events with huge Shabbat See The Shabbat Project page 2