Community Chanukah Concert with Soulfarm & Sari Hosted by Congregation Beth Ahabah Thursday, December 14th 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm) • Learn about Mizrahi heritage and culture • Dessert intermission with freshly-made donuts (kosher-dairy) • Chanukah Candle Lighting, Israeli style! • Micha Biton in Concert TICKETS: $18 per Adult| $10 Seniors (65 +) Children (under 18) FREE (Children must be accompanied by an adult. Event is scheduled to end by 9pm.) Location: Congregation Beth Ahabah 1121 W Franklin St Richmond, VA 23220 Beth Ahabah is an ADA-accessible facility. Please note in your ticket registration if you need wheelchair seating or additional assistance of any kind. For More Information or to Register - Click Here!

Hear Intersecting History museum partners share their vision of how their institutions are forging a more just & inclusive public memory. Come out on Thursday, January 25, 2023, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. to hear a panel of outstanding women leaders discuss how women continue to be on the frontlines of arts, culture and the modern-day freedom movement at Virginia Museum of History & Culture, 428 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. This event brings together area museums around “Yes She Can!” theme to engage residents, promote hope and healing. Then be sure to registered for the Museum Crawl on January 28th, 2024! Date and time Thursday, January 25, 2024 · 6 - 8pm EST Location Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard Richmond, VA 23220 Click HERE to register!

Letters from Brno Film Screening Saturday January 27th, 2024 at 6:00pm at the Virginia Holocaust Museum 2000 E. Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23235 This International Holocaust Remembrance Day join us for the free screening of Letters from Brno. Letters from Brno tells the powerful, personal story of love and sacrifice during the Holocaust. In a 45-year search for clues to her mother’s past, daughter, Karen Kruger uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents through their letters written during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Join us for the screening and Q&A with the film’s writer and producer Karen Kruger. Film Runtime: 1 hour Reservations Required This event is free, but a registration is required. Please fill out the form below to register. This program is generously sponsored by the Ipson Holocaust Education Fund, Henry and Gertrude Kupfer Holocaust Education Fund and Herbert J. and Ruth B. Rubel Holocaust Education Fund of the Richmond Jewish Foundation.

Attend participating museums free of charge and get free bus transportation to all 7 participating museums to experience Intersecting History. This event brings together area museums around “Yes She Can!” theme to engage residents, promote hope and healing. Date and time Sunday, January 28, 2024 · 12 - 5pm EST Starting Location Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard Richmond, VA 23220 We are excited to announce that our 3rd Annual Intersecting History Museum Crawl & Community Conversation! This event brings together area museums around “Yes She Can!” theme to engage residents, promote hope and healing. This event is taking place on January 25th and January 28th, 2024 and we will be bringing together 7 Richmond museums to engage residents in important conversations about history, memory, healing and justice. Click HERE to register!

Sunday, January 28, 2024 1:00pm to 3:30pm Location: Temple Beth-EL Brown Religious School 601 N. Parham Rd. Richmond, VA 23229 Join us for a workshop with, Karen Kruger, writer, and director of the powerful documentary “Letters from Brno.” Using Karen’s family's story, we will address best practices of Holocaust education using primary resources and survivor voices. The workshop will also give educators the opportunity to learn how to research and develop personal family stories. Register for the free workshop here: https://jewishrichmond.regfox.com/educator-professional-development-2024. There will be a free community screening of “Letters from Brno,” on Saturday evening at 6pm at the Virginia Holocaust Museum. Attending Saturday’s screening is recommended, but not required. An educator's cut will be shown during the workshop. To attend the Saturday screening register here: https://www.vaholocaust.org/events/letters-from-brno/

Monday, February 19th, 2024 Lunch at 11:45 • Speakers at 12:30 • Free • Book Signing to Follow The Counterfeit Countess tells, for the first time, the astonishing story of Jewish mathematician Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg, who rescued some ten thousand Poles while posing as “Countess Janina Suchodolska” in the midst of the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. Drawing on Mehlberg’s unpublished memoir and their prodigious research, professional historian and Holocaust expert Elizabeth White (former Research Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide, chief historian for the US Department of Justice & Office of Special Investigations) co-authored a riveting narrative that recounts Mehlberg’s extraordinary achievements within the context of the terror and suffering inflicted on Poland by its Nazi occupiers during World War II. Like The Light of Days, Schindler’s List, and Irena’s Children, but at the same time, utterly unique, The Counterfeit Countess is an unforgettable narrative about courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty with inspiration and strength within its pages. This conversation will be moderated by Michelle Lynn Kahn, assistant professor of modern European history at the University of Richmond. Her research situates post-1945 Germany in a transnational frame, focusing on migration, racism, far-right extremism, gender, and sexuality. Reservations are a MUST! Please RSVP by February 15th. To register for in-person or on zoom, please email Shari Menlowe-Barck at sbarck@weinsteinjcc.org or call 804-545-8611

Join the Virginia Holocaust Museum and Centropa for a day of professional development focused on the experience of Sephardic Jews.   In 1492, Sephardic Jews—Jews whose ancestors were originally from Spain—came to the Ottoman Empire (including today’s Balkan region), when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain expelled them. Eighty percent of the Jews of Yugoslavia were murdered during the Holocaust, and the same in Greece. In this workshop, you will learn about Sephardic Jews in the Balkans, the Holocaust, and two remarkable stories of when civil society stood up in times of war—once during the Holocaust, and another time during the Bosnian war of the 1990s. You will return to your students with resources in Spanish and English for teaching this history.   In this workshop, you will spend time with Centropa's interviews, photographs, short multimedia films, thematic websites, and podcasts. This workshop is free for educators and includes: Breakfast, Coffee, and Lunch English and Spanish Language Resources for Educators A Certificate of Attendance About Centropa:  Centropa is a non-profit, Jewish historical institute dedicated to preserving 20th century Jewish family stories and photos from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and disseminating these stories and photos through films, books, and exhibitions.  Centropa offices are in Budapest, Hamburg, Austria, Vienna and Washington, DC. About Lauren Granite, Workshop Facilitator:  Dr. Lauren Granite, US Education Director for Centropa—a historical institute based in Vienna—has a Ph.D. from Drew University, and master’s degree from the University of Chicago. Before joining Centropa in 2010, she spent more than a dozen years teaching Jewish history to adults, college students, and teens.  She builds Centropa’s network of Jewish, public, parochial and charter schools in North America, and designs workshops, seminars, webinars, and Centropa’s annual Summer Academy, where 70 educators from 15 countries come together to study history in the great cities of Central Europe. Dr. Granite also mentors teachers, designs online and in-person activities, and establishes teacher advisory teams for Centropa programs. Her latest project is creating a network of museum educators in the US and Europe to discover ways that Centropa can support their work with museum visitors, particularly visiting school classes. A limited number of scholarships are available for teachers 120+ miles from Richmond. Scholarships are to help cover travel, housing, and meals. Please contact Megan Ferenczy mferenczy@vaholocaust.org for more information about travel scholarships or for workshop questions.   To Register Click HERE! Deadline for Registration is March 1, 2024.    

The National D-Day Memorial and the Virginia Holocaust Museum present “The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Teaching About Women Who Changed the Course of WWII.” Join us as author Major General Mari K. Eder shares the courageous and overlooked stories of women from World War II that she highlights in her book. You will also hear the untold stories of Virginia women from Virginia World War II Heritage Alliance member archives. Learn the history, best practices, and resources to use in the classroom. This workshop is in partnership with the MacArthur Memorial and the Military Aviation Museum. This workshop is free for educators and includes: Breakfast, coffee, and lunch Copy of The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of Women Who Changed the Course of World War II. Certificate of Attendance Registration deadline is March 31, 2024. Space is limited. Please register by clicking here:  https://www.dday.org/events/the-girls-who-stepped-out-of-line-teaching-about-women-who-changed-the-course-of-wwii/  Registration deadline is March 31, 2024.