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Glass Still Broken: Our Modern-Day Kristallnacht

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Join us for a panel discussion on today's perspective.

Glass Still Broken:

Our Modern-Day Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938) served as a wake-up call to some European Jews who, until that point, may have thought the sociopolitical climate wasn’t “that bad.” Prior to October 7, 2023, many Israeli and American Jews may have felt similarly about today’s world. Should we have known better?

Sunday, November 10, 2024

7:00 p.m.

B'nai Jeshurun Congregation

27501 Fairmount Boulevard

Moderated by David Greenberg,

WKYC 3News Anchor and Reporter

Panelists

Jay Geller, PhD

  • Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of History, Case Western Reserve University

  • Author of several books on German Jewry before, during, and after the Holocaust

Moran Arad-Chajmovic

  • Born and raised on Kibbutz Magen overlooking Gaza

  • Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivor

  • Brother fought off Hamas terrorists who invaded Magen on October 7

Adam Saar

  • Case Western Reserve University student majoring in cognitive science and economics with a minor in public policy

  • Grew up in Ithaca, NY, in an Israeli household

  • Founder and president of CWRU Jewish Student Union

  • Vice Chair of Hillel International Israel Leadership Network

  • Spent Summer 2024 as an economic policy analyst at Yozmat HaMea, a think-tank based in Tel Aviv

Advance registration is REQUIRED.

RSVP by Wednesday, November 6, 2024: nlight@kifcle.org

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