Honoring Harry Houdini and David Copperfield

<strong>Live online at 4 pm ET</strong> <strong>FREE.</strong><a href="https://programs.cjh.org/tickets/great-kosher-meat-war-2020-12-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong> Registration required here to receive the Zoom link.</strong></a> Presented by <a href="https://programs.cjh.org/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Center for Jewish History</a> In partnership with the <a href="https://nmajh.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Museum of American Jewish History</a> <p style="margin: 0in;">In response to a precipitous rise in the price of kosher meat, thousands of Jewish women took to the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side on May 15, 1902. Their stated intention was to shut down every kosher butcher shop until prices came down. What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. In <a href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781640123588/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">T<em>he Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City</em></a> (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), writer and historian <strong>Scott D. Seligman</strong> tells the twin stories of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices, and the mostly uneducated female immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power. With few resources and little experience but a great deal of steely determination, this group of women organized themselves into a potent fighting force, and in their first foray into the political arena in their adopted country, successfully challenged powerful vested corporate interests and set a pattern for future generations to follow.</p>

<b>Saturday, December 12 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT</b> Wave your magic wand....now <a href="https://www.nmajh.org/houdini-and-copperfield/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">click here</a> and more information will magically appear about this event.

<span class="head1"><span class="head2"><span class="head3">Beginning at 10 am </span></span></span> <span class="head1"><strong><span class="head2"><span class="head3">Snowy. Jewish. Happy. Caring. Buddhist. Generous. Family. Creative. Friendly. Sparkly. Fill in your own blank and join us for our annual day of family fun.</span></span></strong></span> <span class="head1"><span class="head2"><span class="head3">The Museum is open virtually. The online galleries are warm. All we need is you to get the party started. Join us for live music online with returning favorite Alex Mitnick of the Emmy Award-wining <strong><span style="font-size: large;">Alex &amp; the Kaleidoscope </span></strong><span style="font-size: large;">from his home studio, </span>on-demand arts and crafts video lessons, and more!</span></span></span> <a href="https://www.nmajh.org/december25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Additional details can be found on the December 25 website.</a> Sponsored by the Robert Saligman Jewish Heritage Fund+

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Wednesday, January 27, 2020 at 6 pm ET</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Free with suggested $10 donation. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">See “Ways to Watch” below for details on how to access the program </span> &nbsp; <span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in as </span><b>Richard Rothstein and Lila Corwin Berman</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> discuss contemporary racial segregation across the United States. The panelists will dig into the history of public housing projects, suburbanization, and the actions of the federal housing administration and then interrogate the racial segregation and income gap in America today as a byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state and federal levels. Touching on the negative effects of these policies on African Americans and the United States as a whole, Rothstein and Berman will address how Jewish Americans specifically benefited from and suffered as a result of these policies.</span> &nbsp; <span style="font-weight: 400;">About the speakers:</span> <b>Richard Rothstein</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a national best selling author, a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Fund. </span> <b>Lila Corwin Berman</b><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>is Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History at Temple University. Berman is also author of the recently released<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The Historical Formation of a Multi-Billion Dollar Institution</i>. <img class="wp-image-1343" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/rothstein-headshot.jpg" alt="" width="79" height="102" /><img class="wp-image-1344" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/berman-lila-corwin.jpg" alt="" width="103" height="103" /> <b>Ways to Watch</b> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Look for the LIVE post on the</span><strong><a href="http://nmajh.org/facebook"> Museum's Facebook page</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at 6 pm ET. You do not need a Facebook account to view the program.</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">NMAJH website: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A little before the program start time, the livestream will also be available on the Museum's website here. You will be prompted to enter your email address. Please note that you may need to refresh your screen and press “play” on the video—the static image will be replaced with the live feed before the program starts. Please note that audience Q&amp;A is only available on Facebook and Zoom during the live program.</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zoom: Registration is required to receive the link--</span></i><strong><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-VQUgF6DRIWSApdPvOKvGA"><i>click here</i></a></strong><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. There are a limited number of Zoom slots--access will be available on a first-come, first-serve the evening of the event. Zoom will stop letting people in when we run out of room. Should that occur, please use one of the other methods listed above instead--they are all free and have unlimited capacity. </span></i> &nbsp; <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><i>This Program is presented by The National Museum of American Jewish History in partnership<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></i>with<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University, and Temple BZBI.</i></span> <a href="https://www.cla.temple.edu/feinstein-center-for-american-jewish-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="alignnone wp-image-1347" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/TU_feinstein_rebrand_CMYKwredtag-1-1366x263.jpg" alt="" width="628" height="121" /></a><a href="http://www.bzbi.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="alignnone wp-image-858" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/BZBI-Logo.jpg" alt="" width="128" height="153" /></a>