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From Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:

In this talk with music, composer, writer, and pianist Michael Schachter will explore his forthcoming music-theatrical project based on the history of the Terezín Ghetto, a WWII concentration camp outside Prague where the Jewish inmates resisted the Nazis through musical, dramatic, and artistic expression. In particular, he’ll focus on the musical activities of Eric Vogel, a trumpeter who founded a jazz band in Terezín called the Ghetto Swingers, and Rafael Schächter, a pianist and conductor who led the inmates in performances of such monumental works as Verdi’s Requiem.

For more information: www.ohavizedek.org

From Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:

Tight up against the Chinese border in northern Vietnam is a mountainous, tribal area from which, almost daily, Hmong girls are tricked, drugged, kidnapped and smuggled deep inside China. There, they’re sold into coercive marriages and domestic, agricultural or sexual slavery. Disoriented, most lack the language, means and skills to escape. Most disappear forever.

Long-time OZ member Sue Schein will describe how she worked with partners to design and launch workshops aimed at interrupting this practice, by teaching girls how to identify and resist grooming, negotiate their own safety and, at times, even effect their own escape.

For more information: www.ohavizedek.org

From Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:

With deep ties to Burlington and Montpelier, Barre’s Jewish families nevertheless forged their own singular identity in a diverse environment of Yankees, Italians, French Canadians, Scots, Spanish, Syrians, and other vibrant ethnic groups.

Dr. (and Rabbi) Carol Harris-Shapiro (who is also a part-time resident of Barre) will share some of the unique stories of Barre’s Jewish residents and the life of their community, based on information she has gathered from interviews, books and articles, and genealogical research.

For more information: www.ohavizedek.org

An outreach video to support the North By Northeast small business conference hosted by VtSBDC on September 30, 2023.

Guests include: Weiwei Wang (Co-Founder/Director of Operations and Development, VT Professionals of Color Network); Nicole Killoran (Professor and Director of VLS Entrepreneurship Legal Laboratory, Vermont Law and Graduate School); Faye Longo (Project Manager of VT Community Navigators, Center for Women and Enterprise).

For more information visit: https://www.vtsbdc.org/north-by-northeast/