<span style="font-weight: 400;">Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 6 pm ET</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Free with suggested <a href="https://www.classy.org/give/334605/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ColorOfLaw&amp;c_src2=EventPageButton" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$10 donation</a>. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">See “Ways to Watch” below for details on how to access the program </span> <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> <h4><b>About the speakers:</b></h4> <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> <strong>Lila Corwin Berman</strong> is the Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History at Temple University. Berman is also the author of the recently released <em>The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The Historical Formation of a Multi-Billion Dollar Institution.</em> <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" /> <h4><b>Ways to Watch</b></h4> <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://www.facebook.com/nmajh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> 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 at the top of this page. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Zoom:</em> Registration is required to receive the link—</span><strong><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-VQUgF6DRIWSApdPvOKvGA">click here</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are a limited number of Zoom slots—access is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Zoom will cut off registration when the limit has been reached. Should that occur, please use one of the other methods listed above instead—they are all free and have unlimited capacity.</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i> <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, Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 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="410" height="79" /> </a><a href="https://jewishmuseummilwaukee.org/events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="alignnone wp-image-1386" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/JMMwMJF_2C_v1-1366x390.jpg" alt="" width="340" height="97" /></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="76" height="91" /></a>

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1641" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-04-26-Bugsy-Siegel-FB.jpg" alt="" width="1200" height="628" /> <b>Monday, April 26 at 4pm ET</b> Watch live on zoom. <a href="https://programs.cjh.org/tickets/bugsy-siegel-2021-04-26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Registration Required</a>. Pay what you wish. <em>Presented by The Center for Jewish History in partnership with the National Museum of American Jewish History</em> In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (1906–1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author <b>Michael Shnayerson</b> sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of the 1940s, Bugsy Siegel and his longtime partner in crime Meyer Lansky engaged in innumerable acts of violence. As World War II came to an end, Siegel saw the potential for a huge, elegant casino resort in the sands of Las Vegas. Jewish gangsters built nearly all of the Vegas casinos that followed. Then, one by one, they disappeared. Siegel’s story laces through a larger, generational story of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early- to mid-twentieth century. <b>Program registrants will receive a code for 30% off and free shipping on the book from the publisher. Register here to receive code.</b>

Thursday, April 29 at 1 pm ET Free with suggested <a href="https://www.classy.org/give/334605/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=JudyBatalion&amp;c_src2=EventPageButton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$10 donation</a> See “Ways to Watch” below for details on how to access the program. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>“A remarkable portrait of young Jewish women who fought in the Polish resistance during WWII. . . pays vivid tribute to ‘the breadth and scope of female courage.’ ” —<em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong></p> Join us for this online conversation with author <strong>Judy Batalion </strong>to discuss her newest book <em>The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos</em>, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture. It is a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now. Check out Batalion's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opinion/sunday/Jewish-women-Nazi-fighters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently published editorial in the <em>New York Times</em></a> for a deeper look into the book (which will be released on April 6, 2021) and what inspired her to write it. She previously <a href="https://vimeo.com/345551063#t=1764s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performed at the Museum</a> in 2019 as part of a storytelling program called "My Mother's Closet" with Maira Kalman and others. <strong>About the author:</strong> Judy was born and raised in Montreal, where she grew up speaking English, French, Yiddish and Hebrew, and trying to stay warm. She studied the history of science at Harvard then moved to London to pursue a PhD in art history. All the while, she worked as a curator, researcher, editor, lecturer, comic, MC, script-reader, dramaturge, performer, actor, producer, translator, mmmuffins server, and a temp – at a temp agency. Eventually, Judy transformed these experiences into material, and wrote essays and articles for the <em>New York Times</em>, the <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>Vogue</em>, the <em>Forward</em>, <em>Salon</em>, the <em>Jerusalem Post</em> and many other publications. Her stories about family relationships, the generational transmission of trauma, pathological hoarding and militant minimalism came together in her book <a href="https://www.judybatalion.com/memoir-white-walls"><em>White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between</em></a><em> </em>(NAL/Penguin, 2016). <em>White Walls</em> was optioned by Warner Brothers for whom Judy is currently developing the TV series “Cluttered.” <strong>Ways to Watch:</strong> <i>Facebook: </i>Look for the LIVE post on the<strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/nmajh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Museum’s Facebook page</a></strong> at 1pm ET. You do not need a Facebook account to view the program. <i>NMAJH website: </i>A little before the program start time, the livestream will also be available at the top of this page. 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. <i>Zoom: </i>Registration is required to receive the link–<strong><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j3RRGlSkSWmQSN_mo-Iaew" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">click here</a></strong>. There are a limited number of Zoom slots available on a first-come, first-served basis. Zoom will cut off registration when the limit has been reached. Should that occur, please use one of the other methods listed above instead—they are all free and have unlimited capacity. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>This program is presented by the National Museum of American Jewish History in partnership with Congregation Temple BZBI in Philadelphia</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-858" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/BZBI-Logo.jpg" alt="" width="102" height="122" /> <img class="alignnone wp-image-1653" src="https://www.nmajh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Smith_PrimaryLogo_FullColor.jpg" alt="" width="196" height="115" /></p>