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Join the Jewish Study Center, Fabrangen Huvurah and the Contemporary Kabbalah Institute to learn and experience a spiritual approach to Passover and observing the Seder. This second night seder will be a traditional seder with kabbalistic interpretations and live music.

Jewish Publication Society (JPS) Editor0in-Chief Malka Simkovich and Jewish Study Center President Amy Schwartz discuss the state of Jewish publishing, the current challenges that Jewish writers are facing, and the unique opportunities of the current moment.

Jordan Sher will discuss little-known Holocaust and WWII events from his fictionized account of the real adventures of a young Jewish boy in Bosnia.

Gaby Steinitz will use her artwork in illustrating how the Holocaust, Art and Nature are related and the importance for us, today, of recognizing their relationships, and finding inspiration in mother nature.

An event on the anniversary the Farhud, the antisemitic mob violence against Baghdad Jewry on June 1, 1941. Via Zoom and in person at the Rayburn Congressional; Building, 45 Independence Ave SW, DC. Reception at 6:30pm.

Dona Gracia Nasi was born only 13 years after the forced conversions in Lisbon. But she became the center of the Jewish struggle to survive and strive in the 1500s Europe. She was instrumental in developed a type of “Underground Railroad”, Bible printing in the vernacular, and establishing Jewish community in the Land of Israel.

Before World War I Vienna had one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe. Their Jews assimilated into Austro-German culture, but retained a large measure of Jewish identity through religious institutions, Zionism, Jewish nationalism, or ethnic solidarity. The class will also evaluate the extent the play Leopoldstadt may have been great theater but not good history.