Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)

<strong>7:30 pm ET FREE. <a href="https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UemrPdjhR8-qNWER8o9ehg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Register here to receive Zoom link</a>.</strong> This program is part of "Jews and the America to Come" series presented by <a href="https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Penn's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies</a> <strong>The year 2020 has been a transformative one for American society, but what is it becoming?</strong> Even as the country struggles with a pandemic and massive unemployment, many Americans have at the same time been newly awakened to racial injustice and economic inequality. Much of the change now underway has been tragic; some of it is hopeful; and the combination may yet produce a very different America.The aim of this online series is to draw on the insights of scholarship to explore the implications of all these changes for American Jews—their role in the changes underway, and/or the stake they have in them as a community. Through presentations by experts from the fields of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies and Political Theory, the series will address the implications for Jews of the #Metoo movement, the continuing struggle against racism, the prospects for freedom of speech, the fight against economic injustice, and the future of America's relationship with Israel.No one can be certain about what the future brings, but in certain ways, the future is already here. The aim of this series is to encourage reflection about the America to come, and what Jews can do to help shape it. <strong>Rabbi Jill Jacobs’ </strong>career is distinguished by a combination of leadership, intellectual engagement, and an abiding passion for justice. In this talk, she will reflect on the Jewish community's role in America's ongoing and mounting struggle with economic inequality. <div class="event__text-wrapper"> <strong>Sponsors</strong> Presented in partnership with <a href="https://www.truah.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights</a> and the <a href="https://www.nmajh.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">National Museum of American Jewish History</a>. <em>We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Klatt Family and the Harry Stern Family Foundation.</em> Image: Marc Chagall, "La Vie," 1965, held in the Fondation Maeght </div>

<strong>7:30 pm ET FREE. <a href="https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IJ-enCThQumbzCfQF1byow" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Register here to receive Zoom link</a>.</strong> This program is part of "Jews and the America to Come" series presented by <a href="https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Penn's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies</a> Even as the country struggles with a pandemic and massive unemployment, many Americans have at the same time been newly awakened to racial injustice and economic inequality. Much of the change now underway has been tragic; some of it is hopeful; and the combination may yet produce a very different America. The aim of this online series is to draw on the insights of scholarship to explore the implications of all these changes for American Jews—their role in the changes underway, and/or the stake they have in them as a community. Through presentations by experts from the fields of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies and Political Theory, the series will address the implications for Jews of the #Metoo movement, the continuing struggle against racism, the prospects for freedom of speech, the fight against economic injustice, and the future of America's relationship with Israel. No one can be certain about what the future brings, but in certain ways, the future is already here. The aim of this series is to encourage reflection about the America to come, and what Jews can do to help shape it. The United States has long been Israel’s closest ally, partly due to the tireless advocacy of American Jews. But the American Jewish relationship with Israel is changing, and U.S. policy toward Israel is becoming more controversial domestically. <strong>Dr. Dov Waxman</strong> discusses what these trends mean for the future of American support for Israel. &nbsp; <div class="event__text-wrapper"> <strong>Sponsors</strong> Presented in partnership with the <a href="https://www.nmajh.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">National Museum of American Jewish History</a>. <em>We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Klatt Family and the Harry Stern Family Foundation.</em> </div>

<strong>7:00 pm ET</strong> FREE with <a href="https://www.classy.org/give/242250/#!/donation/checkout" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$5 suggested donation</a> <u><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hmBP2nu_SWm0mbVVE65Arw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Registration required for those watching on zoom.</a></u> Registration not required if viewing on FB. <p style="font-size: 14px;">Presented by<a href="https://www.cla.temple.edu/feinstein-center-for-american-jewish-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Temple University’s Feinstein Center for American Jewish History</a>, the <a href="https://nmajh.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Museum of American Jewish History</a>, and community sponsorship from the <a href="https://www.freelibrary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Free Library of Philadelphia</a></p> What does Broadway, a seemingly “innocent” and “frivolous” all-American art form have to say about race and white supremacy? Join <strong>Warren Hoffman</strong>, author of <i>The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical</i>, in conversation with <strong>Elizabeth Wollman</strong>, Baruch College, as they discuss the ways in which Broadway musicals from <i>Oklahoma!</i> And <i>West Side Story</i> to <i>Hamilton</i> and <i>The Book of Mormon</i> shape and have been shaped by the racial ideologies that make the U.S. the nation it is today.

<strong>7:30 pm ET FREE. <a href="https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBsveMmCSiah-4AytHa2vA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Register here to receive Zoom link</a>.</strong> This program is part of "Jews and the America to Come" series presented by <a href="https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Penn's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies</a> Even as the country struggles with a pandemic and massive unemployment, many Americans have at the same time been newly awakened to racial injustice and economic inequality. Much of the change now underway has been tragic; some of it is hopeful; and the combination may yet produce a very different America. The aim of this online series is to draw on the insights of scholarship to explore the implications of all these changes for American Jews—their role in the changes underway, and/or the stake they have in them as a community. Through presentations by experts from the fields of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies and Political Theory, the series will address the implications for Jews of the #Metoo movement, the continuing struggle against racism, the prospects for freedom of speech, the fight against economic injustice, and the future of America's relationship with Israel. No one can be certain about what the future brings, but in certain ways, the future is already here. The aim of this series is to encourage reflection about the America to come, and what Jews can do to help shape it. Renowned scholar and activist<strong> Dr. Anthea Butler</strong> brings new perspectives to the much-discussed relationship between Black and Jewish Americans in civil rights movements, past and present. <div class="event__text-wrapper"> <strong>Sponsors</strong> Presented in partnership with the <a href="https://www.nmajh.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">National Museum of American Jewish History</a>. <em>We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Klatt Family and the Harry Stern Family Foundation.</em> </div> L. S. Lowry, "Coming from the Mill," 1930, held in The Lowry.

<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>