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Ohavi Zedek Lunch & Learn: TBD May 05/15/2025

From Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:

 

For more information: www.ohavizedek.org

Ohavi Zedek Lunch & Learn: The Music of Terezin 04/24/2025

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

Ohavi Zedek Lunch & Learn: Artists & the Holocaust: Documentation, Memory, Elegy 03/20/2025

From Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:

Janie Cohen, past Director of UVM’s Fleming Museum, will present a slide talk on the work of four artists who experienced the Holocaust, and the ways it impacted their work. Included are Anselm Kiefer and Christian Boltanski, both born late in WWII; Henryk Ross, who clandestinely photographed life in the Lodz ghetto while serving as the Jewish Council’s official photographer; and Hannelore Baron, a New York artist who witnessed Kristallnacht as a child and escaped Germany with her family.

For more information: www.ohavizedek.org

Resistance Day of Learning at Ohavi Zedek 2025 02/04/2025

From Burlington High School:

The “Resistance Day of Learning” is hosted with The Lost Mural Project located at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue. Students look at the “The Lost Mural” (a Burlington artifact in the style of Eastern Europe synagogues), and hear from guest speakers who share stories of their own resistance. Speakers include Noor Bulle - Somali heritage; Mugabo Uwilingiyimana - Rwandan heritage; Gordana Pobric - Bosnian heritage; and, Migmar Tsering - Tibetan heritage.

For more information: https://ohavizedek.org/

Recorded on February 4 and February 5, 2025.

Ohavi Zedek Lunch & Learn: Volunteering to Stop Human Trafficking in Vietnam 01/16/2025

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

Ohavi Zedek Lunch & Learn: The Challenges Facing Caregivers 11/21/2024

From Ohavi Zedek Synagogue:

Alan E. Rubel is a co-author/editor of a powerful collection of 43 stories about the reality of being an unpaid caregiver. The book, The Greatest Burden. The Greatest Blessing, includes stories involving a variety of areas of caregiving. As Rubel notes, “our mission is to help today’s and tomorrow’s caregivers through these stories.”

A former board member of the Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice; a competitive Senior Games javelin thrower; and the current Co-Chair of Ohavi Zedek’s Cemetery Committee, Rubel will discuss his book and the challenges and rewards facing caregivers.

For more information: www.ohavizedek.org

Archibald Street Synagogue: Loredo Salzman and the Archibald Street Synagogue 11/19/2024

Members of Ohavi Zedek conduct an interivew with Loredo Salzman, a community member who has had lived experience in the Archibald Street Synagogue. These interviews are part of an experiential learning center focused on Little Jerusalem, an immigrant community dating from the late 1800s, in Burlington's North End. 

For more information visit: www.ohavizedek.org

Archibald Street Synagogue: Rabbi Jan Salzman and the Archibald Street Synagogue 11/19/2024

Members of Ohavi Zedek conduct an interivew with Rabbi Jan Salzman, a community member who has had lived experience in the Archibald Street Synagogue. These interviews are part of an experiential learning center focused on Little Jerusalem, an immigrant community dating from the late 1800s, in Burlington's North End. 

For more information visit: www.ohavizedek.org

Archibald Street Synagogue: David Hershberg and the Archibald Street Synagogue 08/16/2024

Members of Ohavi Zedek conduct an interivew with David Hershberg, a community member who has had lived experience in the Archibald Street Synagogue. These interviews are part of an experiential learning center focused on Little Jerusalem, an immigrant community dating from the late 1800s, in Burlington's North End. 

For more information visit: www.ohavizedek.org

Lost Mural Project - Vermont Eats Dinner 06/06/2024

From the Organizers:

With the the Copper Ark and related objects now safely located under the same roof as the lovingly restored Lost Mural, we have an opportunity to fully immerse visitors in a unique “Little Jerusalem” experience.

Our plan involves building a twenty-foot long addition onto the Samuelson Saiger sanctuary with a high ceiling, that will exhibit the copper ark on a three-quarter height scale of the original sanctuary. Pews, bimah, and related artifacts will complete the experience.

Once completed, this sacred space will be available for contemplation and use as a sanctuary. It will also become an anchor, along with the Lost Mural, for a world class interactive interpretive exhibit on “Little Jerusalem,” open to the public and designed as a shared use space.

The Lost Mural was painted in 1910, walled up to preserve in 1986, moved in 2015, cleaned of dirt, grime, charcoal, and varnish in 2021, and restored in 2022.

For more information: www.lostmural.org | www.copperark.org

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