The United States’ role in saving Europe’s intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap, and Richard Courant, among hundreds of other physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, chemists, and linguists who
The Women of GJC, Men’s Club, and HAZAK invite you to our welcome back event via Zoom on Sunday, September 13, at 10:00 AM when Sam Katz, Philadelphia historian, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and longtime GJC member, will present a compelling program on the history of disempowerment of Philadelphia’s African American community and other communities of
Tikkun Olam Coordinating Team is proud to present the first session of the FACING SYSTEMIC RACISM Series. Through reading, presentations, and discussion, we hope to elucidate many layers of systemic racism, and better understand how to begin to make changes in our well-intentioned communities of GJC and West Mt Airy. We hope to address inequity
HAZAK and TOCT (Tikkun Olam Coordinating Team) invite you to join in a film discussion of They Ain’t Ready for Me, a documentary film being shown virtually this year as part of the Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival. THEY AIN’T READY FOR ME is about Tamar Manasseh, founder of MASK (Mothers Against Senseless Killings). She is a mother, Black Chicago activist,
"Facing Systemic Racism" is planned as a series of zoom talks organized by the Tikkun Olam Coordinating Team, to help us better understand, recognize, and oppose systemic racism in our immediate and larger communities. Every session will have a guest speaker with expertise in their subject, as well as participation by attendees. Our hope is
Join GJC for an intimate evening of incredible music and deep conversation. Twelve years after making his professional operatic debut in the world premiere of Philip Glass's Appomattox with the San Francisco Opera Company, Anthony Russell is now a vocalist, composer, and arranger specializing in Yiddish song. Anthony's work in traditional Ashkenazi Jewish musical forms
Join us for the 37th Annual Ralph Granger Memorial Program as we welcome State Senator Art Haywood. As the Senator representing much of Northwest Philadelphia and parts of Montgomery County—and as a progressive leader in Harrisburg—Senator Haywood is well-positioned to consider with us questions such as: What race-related successes and challenges have you seen in
Join the entire GJC community in celebration and commemoration of MLK Jr. Day on Zoom! Through learning and action, we will join together to follow MLK Jr.’s example of loving our neighbors by demanding economic justice for all. We will spend an hour on Sunday morning discovering the legacy of Dr. King and partnering with
Adina Abramowitz and Mark Pinsky will present Financial Racism: Your Money, Your Impact on Feb 4, 2021 at 8:00. This is the fourth event in the TOCT series, Facing Systemic Racism. They will discuss many of the ways that our financial system supports systemic racism as well as the people and organizations working to change
This program will discuss the relationship between the environment and identity and encourage us to think more broadly about the multifaceted reality of environmental racism in the United States. Rather than a lecture, Maris invites us to think of this as an opportunity to engage with different ways of knowing, experiencing the environment, and reflecting
