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Hadassah Gross - The Queen Of Judeo Kitsch

Join Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross and her fabulous friends for a cabaret show with live music, standup comedy, masks, and drinks. March Follies: A Preposterous PrePurim Pageant will take place on March 1 at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Performers will include comedians Julie Goldman, Seth Herzog, and Lenny Marcus.

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Museum Of Jewish Heritage Present Discussion Of Holocaust Epic

Taking the opportunity to share his family stories, Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his elaborate family memoir The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million with Gabriel Sanders, associate editor of the Forward, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on Wednesday, January 31 at 7 p.m.

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Open Discussion On Jewish Theological Issues

Join us for a discussion of the complicated Jewish religious and ethical issues related to infertility on February 7, 2007 at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

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Jewish Museum Presents Open Discussion Of Jewish Theological And Ethical Issues

Join us for a discussion of the complicated Jewish religious and ethical issues related to infertility on February 7 at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

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Jeffrey Goldberg Dicsusses His Complex Friendship With PLO Prisoner

In 1990, during the first Intifada, American author Jeffrey Goldberg was a guard in the largest prison in Israel. It was there he met an inmate named Rafiq Hijazi, a rising leader in the Fatah faction of the PLO.

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Influential Holocaust Film Will Be Screened And Discussed At Museum Of Jewish Heritage

In 1947, only two years after AuschwitzBirkenau was liberated, Wanda Jakubowska and Gerda Schneider - both Auschwitz survivors - filmed The Last Stop, an important drama about female inmates in the camp.

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Jewish Journalist Discusses His Complex Friendship With A PLO Leader

In 1990, during the first Intifada, American author Jeffrey Goldberg was a guard in the largest prison in Israel. It was there he met an inmate named Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue that grew into a remarkable friendship - and now a remarkable book that confronts headon the issues dividing the Middle East.

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Family Program Celebrates The Environment At The Museum Of Jewish Heritage

Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish New Year of Trees, is the ideal time to study our relationship with nature. Come join us for an afternoon of songs, stories, craft activities, and workshops relating to the Hudson River and the indigenous trees of Battery Park City. The Museum, perched at the mouth of the Hudson River, is the perfect setting for this program.

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Celebrate The Legacy Of Martin Luther King, JR. With Pulitzer Prizewinner Nick Kotz

Almost 40 years after his death, the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a discussion of Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Nick Kotz' illustrious book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Laws That Changed America (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) on January 17 at 7 p.m.

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From The Heart: The Photojournalism Of Ruth Gruber

The exhibition takes its name from advice given to Ruth Gruber by photographer Edward Steichen. But looking at her body of work-her journalism, books, photography, and activism- it is clear that with or without that advice, Ruth would do nothing short of observing and interpreting the world around her with an open heart, a keen eye, and the desire to see what is best in the human spirit.

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