Recent Events

A sampling of recent Center events.

	5k-Challenge August 26, 2012
	testimonial-dinner June 13, 2012
	colloquium-2012 May 10, 2012
	luna-kaufman-competition May 10, 2012
	Education Under Fire April 25, 2012
	Armenian Genocide Remembrance April 16, 2012
	2012 Yom Hashoah Remembrance April 16, 2012
	basket auction 2012_2 March 28, 2012
WORKSHOP	Make your school safe for LGBTQ students March 12, 2012
	generations museum trip March 4, 2012 Organized by The Generations: Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
	Genocide in America? February 27, 2012 Historian Jess LeVine uncovered the facts concerning the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre by the volunteer Colorado Militia.
	The Generations Book Club February 9, 2012 The group discussed Fern Schumer Chapman's book, Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust, a Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past.
	The Generations Inaugural Brunch December 4, 2011 The Center introduced its newly established initiative, The Generations: Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, at a special Inaugural Brunch. Distinguished Holocaust Educator Sandy Rubenstein, child of a Holocaust survivor, was the featured speaker.
	Holocaust Educators Conference December 2, 2011 Keynote speaker Alexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1992, Alexandra began researching diaries written by young people during the Holocaust. Ten years later, her work resulted in the publication of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, which won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here, a documentary film for young audiences based on Salvaged Pages, which aired on MTV in May 2005.
	We Must Act: Crisis in Somalia November 17, 2011 Daniel Wordsworth, President and CEO of the American Refugee Committee, and Said Sheik-Abdi, Program Manager of the Somali Advisory Council updated us on the current crisis.
	Only A Number - A film about a Holocaust Survivor November 10, 2011 Steven Besserman is the director of Only A Number. His mother, Aranka, is a Holocaust survivor. “My mother has dementia,” says Besserman. “Many years before this insidious disease began to eat away at her memory, she documented her experiences as a young girl growing up in Hungary, and the horrors she personally witnessed and endured at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust.”
	Wednesday Morning Film Series 2011 - Women of Valor October 26, 2011 and November 9, 2011 We honor three women, Sophie Scholl, Sister Rose Therling and Rosa Parks, who exhibited moral courage and personal resilience in the face of injustice. Join us as we recognize these heroes, remember their legacies and become inspired by their strength and commitment to equality and human rights.
	Gated Grief October 3, 2011 "Gated Grief," a presentation by author Leila Levinson. Her father, a physician who served in WWII, liberated concentration camps and treated the victims. Following her father’s death, Leila learned of his experience and only then recognized the legacy of trauma he passed on to her.
	Wednesday Morning Lecture Series on the Holocaust and World War II September 21, 2011, October 5, 2011 and October 12, 2011 Professor Jack Needle, one of the co-founders of the organization now named the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education at Brookdale with Dr. Seymour Siegler, taught history at the college from 1971 until his recent retirement. A recognized scholar of the Holocaust and World War II, he received more than a dozen fellowships and scholarships during his academic career, including a Fulbright to the University of Jordan, an English-Speaking Union Scholarship to Oxford University in Great Britain and a scholarship from the NJ Commission of Holocaust Education to study at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in 1987.
	9/11 Tribute Ordinary People - Extraordinary Actions September 19, 2011 Jill McCracken, teacher at Holmdel High School and Center Board member, facilitated our celebration of unsung heroes Tony Hall, Director of Ground Zero Food Volunteers, and Mary Beth Tyrens, who collected food for the volunteers in Philadelphia and drove it up to New York City every weekend.
	2011 Annual Colloquium May 12, 2011 Mark Hanis, Founder and Executive Director ot the Genocide Intervention Network, was our guest speaker.
	Ninth Annual Conflict Resolution Forum April 14, 2011 Peace in Our Communities; Peace in Our World
	Annual Armenian Genocide Rememberance April 12, 2011 Garin K. Hovannisian, author of Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream, spoke and signed books.
	Annual Silent Basket Auction Fundraiser and Guest Speaker Stan Kasten April 6, 2011 Stan Kasten is a former President of the Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Thrashers.
	Testimonial Dinner honoring Edward J. McKenna, Jr. March 24, 2011 Ed McKenna has dedicated more than 20 years of public service to our community serving the Borough of Red Bank both as a Councilman and Mayor.
Wednesday Morning Spring Film Series: The Upstanders	March 9, 2011 The Power of Good March 16, 2011 Bonhoeffer March 30, 2011 Between the Lines
	An Evening with Gloria Steinem March 1, 2011 Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist who has been involved in the feminist and other social justice movements for over forty years. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice.