The Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project at Portland State University

Phenomenal new exhibit at OJMCHE, exploring Human Rights after the Holocaust. Come learn.

Action Through the Arts: Creative Strategies to Implement Civics in the Classroom

DATE: Thursday, May 4, 2023

TIME: 4:30 PM

LOCATION: Virtual via Zoom REGISTER HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJOVm9WDCHTfL6PEPIo4rDzXm5JLKvAqsoCcwo4nQpvLTNUw/viewform

This session is created and facilitated by Carl Brister, an artist, activist, educator, and instructional coach of 10 years who has been featured on NJ12NEWS, WABC, NBC, and more for highly effective creative classroom practices and for leveraging the power of music and the arts to impact the community for social change.

This program will include a reflective dialogue around the NJDOE Standards for Middle School Civics instruction, fun activities and exercises, and ideas on how to transform the classroom into a dynamic Civics learning space through the arts.

PD hours and Co-Curricular Credits provided!



For more information, please contact: Sarah Coykendall, Managing Assistant Director

[email protected] / (908) 737- 4632

Kean University 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ. 07083 www.kean.edu

April is Genocide Commemoration and Prevention Month. Please join us for our annual Rising Up for Human Dignity series, with a focus on Justice and Repair.

Upcoming Event!

Higher Education under Fascism: Between Individual Choice and Totalitarian Force View of Nürnberger Tor, one of the entrances to the University of Erlangen, on top of which a banner has been placed stating that Jews are not desired here. Below it hangs a N**i party recruitment banner, 1938. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stadtarchiv und Stadtmuseum Erlangen

Upcoming Event!

2023 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture—Teaching Exclusion in N**i Germany and the United States: Antisemitism and Racist Ideology in the Classroom, 1920–1945 N**i students unload confiscated materials for the public book burning about to take place in 1933 on the Opernplatz in Berlin. The banner on the back of the truck reads: "German students march against the un-German spirit." National Archives

Upcoming event!

N**i Ideology and White Supremacy: Historical Precedents and Contexts Location: Pacific Lutheran University Anderson University Center, Regency Room (203)12180 Park Avenue SouthTacoma, WA 98447United States

This is why the work we do is so essential - this is an exponential increase, and demands our attention and action. Stay tuned for our timely programming in April, as part of our annual Rising Up for Human Dignity series.

Reports of antisemitism up 63% in the Pacific Northwest in 2022; resistance is up too The ADL recorded 40 incidents of antisemitic hate in Oregon in its 2022 audit, the most ever, and 65 incidents in Washington, also a record.

Germany declares Ukraine's Holodomor famine a genocide – DW – 11/30/2022 Germany's parliament has declared the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin a genocide. It comes as Ukraine warned Russia is using similar tactics in its war today.

Every day, it seems, our headlines include shocking incidences of hate speech, antisemitic graffiti, conspiracy theories and assaults on the visibly Orthodox. Journalism has an important role to play in reporting, analyzing, interrogating and debating these phenomena. ⁠
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Jodi Rudoren, will discuss the challenges that journalists – and especially Jewish journalists – face in covering antisemitism. Where are the lines between calling out hatred and platforming it? How do we balance coverage of these threats and stereotypes with those targeting more vulnerable minorities? Why is this happening in the first place — and how scared should Jews be?⁠
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Jodi Rudoren is a veteran reporter, editor and digital innovator. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Forward, one of America’s oldest Jewish news outlets.⁠
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The 18th Annual Gus and Libby Solomon Memorial Lecture is presented by the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. Sponsored by Richard B. Solomon and Alyce Flitcraft. Cosponsors include the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, PSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and PSU Department of Communication.⁠
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"Jewish Journalism in a Time of Rising Antisemitism"⁠
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023⁠
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PT⁠
University Place Hotel, 310 SW Lincoln St. Portland OR⁠
Free admission, space limited, please register.⁠
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Learn more about Jodi Rudoren and register for the event: https://www.pdx.edu/judaic-studies/annual-gus-and-libby-solomon-memorial-lecture-2023⁠
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40 Japanese Americans interned while students during WWII receive high school diplomas 80 years later Forty Japanese Americans who were denied their chance to graduate high school during World War II finally got their diplomas.

Check out the Vanport Mosaic Festival Offerings this month!

This is an important read! When we say that perpetrators are "deranged," we ignore the layered rationale that gives license to people who commit violence. N**is, old and new, act with an ethical conviction that we NEED to unpack.

White Supremacy's Warped Rationale The Buffalo shooter wasn’t deranged. He ascribed to a coherent ideology.