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SUMMARY:A Sweet Year
DESCRIPTION:In Jewish tradition\, holidays are a time for family and feasting\, and for Joan Nathan\, nothing embodies the holiday spirit more than cooking delicious festive favorites with friends and loved ones. When her own children were young\, Nathan published the first version ofA Sweet Year. Now she updates a beloved go-to resource for her grandchildren’s generation and adds a heaping helping of new recipes. Included are essays on the history of Jewish holidays\, instructions for how to celebrate them\, and craft activities such as making challah covers and candlesticks. There are also personal essays on how Nathan’s family celebrates the holidays and how various menus can be mixed and matched. Nathan will discuss the updated book and also demonstrate her recipe for apple latkes\, just in time for Hanukkah!
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/a-sweet-year/
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SUMMARY:An Exploration of Mysticism with Mirabai Starr
DESCRIPTION:Author Mirabai Starr will share wisdom from her new book\, Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground\, which challenges readers to discover the extraordinary in the everyday. Grounded in lessons from spiritual teachers across the centuries and informed by her own experiences of heartbreak\, Starr’s teachings offer an antidote to despair in these turbulent times\, and a roadmap back to our common humanity.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/an-exploration-of-mysticism-with-mirabai-starr/
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SUMMARY:Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
DESCRIPTION:Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century regarded one another with open hostility\, fiercely competing for limited resources and even coming to blows in the crowded neighborhoods of major cities. In Opening Doors\,Hasia R. Diner\, one of the world’s preeminent historians of immigration\, tells a very different story; far from confrontational\, the prevailing relationships between Jewish and Irish Americans were overwhelmingly cooperative\, and the two groups were dependent upon one another to secure stable and upwardly mobile lives in their new home. The Irish had emigrated to American cities en masse a generation before the first major wave of Jewish immigrants arrived\, and had already entrenched themselves in positions of influence in urban governments\, public education\, and the labor movement. Jewish newcomers recognized the value of aligning themselves with another group of religious outsiders who were able to stand up and demand rights and respect despite widespread discrimination from the Protestant establishment\, and the Irish realized that they could protect their political influence by mentoring their new neighbors in the intricacies of American life. Opening Doors draws from a deep well of historical sources to show how Irish and Jewish Americans became steadfast allies in classrooms\, picket lines\, and political machines\, and ultimately helped one another become key power players in shaping America’s future.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/opening-doors-the-unlikely-alliance-between-the-irish-and-the-jews-in-america/
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SUMMARY:“Blind Spot” Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Blind Spot is the first film to document both the antisemitism that existed on American campuses long before October 7 and how it led to the explosion of virulent and often violent campus antisemitism after October 7. A modern-day civil rights story told in the inspiring words and voices of more than two dozen students who’ve experienced and fought against this hatred on the front lines at more than a dozen schools across America\, Blind Spot bears witness to their bravery in the face of extreme hostility\, indifference\, and efforts to silence them and erase their Jewish identity while too many school administrators fail to take action. Joining and supporting the students in the film are more than two dozen professionals\, including leading activist lawyers\, elected officials from both parties\, faculty\, campus Chabad and Hillel directors and other Jewish community leaders\, college administrators\, and journalists/authors\, who express their views and prescriptions for change.
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