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Aug
22
Wed
“Only Victims: The Hollywood Blacklist” – Ellie Gettinger
Education Director at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Ellie Gettinger will preview Jewish Museum Milwaukee’s new original exhibit Blacklist: Hollywood’s Red Scare, which opens to the public in October 2018. The talk will explore the historical events that led to the Hollywood Blacklist and its impact on film, television, and theater. Gettinger will offer insights into the development of the exhibit, connections to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, and contemporary parallels. As described by Dalton Trumbo, “The blacklist was a time of evil…no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil…[Looking] back on this time…it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.”
Sep
13
Thu
Bus Trip to Jewish Museum Milwaukee
We will leave Madison at 9:30 am, have an early lunch, attend talk and tour from 1-2:30 pm, and then return to Madison. Lunch location and menu will be announced shortly. Cost is $25 and will include all transportation, lunch and museum fees. This program is generously subsidized by Jeff Levy. If cost is prohibitive, funds are available through Jewish Social Services. Contact Paul Borowsky at JSS: paul@jssmadison.org, 608-442-4083. We will have a chance to tour core exhibits as well as the traveling exhibit which is ending soon:
Traveling Exhibit:Stitching Histories From the Holocaust tells the story of Hedwig Strnad and her husband Paul through the letters to their Milwaukee cousin and the dress designs they sent in the hopes of getting visas. Hedy and Paul were ultimately killed in the Holocaust, but her dress designs survived. The centerpiece of this exhibit are the eight dresses lovingly created by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater Costume Shop. These dresses provide visitors with a tangible connection to the loss of talent in the Holocaust.
Accompanying Stitching Histories are two more family stories of immigration:
The Oelsner family fled to Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1939, the only place that they could go without a visa. Their daughter Edie was born there and the collection reflects the family’s journey from Nazi Germany, to war-torn Shanghai, and ultimately to the United States.
While Mary and George Stern escaped to the United States in 1938 and settled in Racine, WI.
Sep
21
Fri
Please join Rabbi Renee Bauer, your neighbors, volunteers and Jewish Social Services staff for candle lighting, challah, wine, songs and discussion to usher in Shabbat.
A program of Jewish Social Services of Madison and Oakwood Villiage.
Sep
28
Fri
Please join Rabbi Renee Bauer, your neighbors, volunteers and Jewish Social Services staff for candle lighting, challah, wine, songs and discussion to usher in Shabbat
A program of Jewish Social Services and Attic Angel Place
Oct
5
Fri
Please join your neighbors, volunteers and Jewish Social Services staff for candle lighting, challah, wine, songs and discussion to usher in Shabbat. Led by Rabbi Andrea Steinberger with the assistance of UW students from Hillel.
A program of Jewish Social Services, UW Hillel and Capitol Lakes Retirement Community.
Nov
2
Fri
Please join your neighbors, volunteers and Jewish Social Services staff for candle lighting, challah, wine, songs and discussion to usher in Shabbat. Led by Rabbi Andrea Steinberger with the assistance of UW students from Hillel.
A program of Jewish Social Services, UW Hillel and Capitol Lakes Retirement Community.
Nov
16
Fri
Please join Rabbi Renee Bauer, your neighbors, volunteers and Jewish Social Services staff for candle lighting, challah, wine, songs and discussion to usher in Shabbat.
A program of Jewish Social Services of Madison and Oakwood Villiage.
Dec
7
Fri
Please join Rabbi Renee Bauer, your neighbors, volunteers and Jewish Social Services staff for candle lighting, challah, wine, songs and discussion to usher in Shabbat
A program of Jewish Social Services and Attic Angel Place
Please join your neighbors, volunteers and Jewish Social Services staff for candle lighting, challah, wine, songs and discussion to usher in Shabbat. Today we will also be celebrating Chanukah!
A program of Jewish Social Services, UW Hillel and Capitol Lakes Retirement Community.
Dec
21
Fri
Please join Rabbi Renee Bauer, your neighbors, volunteers and Jewish Social Services staff for candle lighting, challah, wine, songs and discussion to usher in Shabbat.
A program of Jewish Social Services of Madison and Oakwood Villiage.