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Past Events


Some of the activities we have organized or participated in since our inception in 2006:

Fall 2006 lecture series at FGCU:

Dr. Geoffrey Giles, University of Florida, “Postmark Hatred: Antisemitic Images in Prewar Popular Culture”
Dr. Glenn Whitehouse, FGCU, “My Brother’s Killer? Christianity and Antisemitism”
Dr. John Cox, FGCU, “European Antisemitism and the Roots of Nazi Ideology”

“Art of Hatred” exhibit, on loan from the Jewish Museum of Florida, displayed in the FGCU Art Gallery, Fall 2006

Guest lecturer on the Darfur crisis: James Waller, February 2007

Cantor in al-Andalus

Visiting scholar from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington: Jonathan Judaken, lecture: “Leon Poliakov: The History of Antisemitism from Jesus to Hitler,” March 2007

“Philip Roth’s Everyman: In Memory of Howard Greenstein,” a lecture by Elaine Newton, York University, March 2007

Holocaust Remembrance Concert, April 2007

High school teacher-training workshops with the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida, Summers of 2006, 2007, 2008

Adult Education lecture series on Islam, Christianity, and Judaism at the Temple Shalom, Naples, October-November 2007

First Annual Interfaith Clergy Seminar, led by Dr. Michael J. Cook, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, author of Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-Being in a Christian Environment, among many other publications, January 2008

Guest lecturer: Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory and History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier, February 2008

Guest lecturer: Robert Rosen, author of Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust, February 2008

Film-showing: "Swimming in Auschwitz: Survival Stories of Six Women,” with discussion led by director Jon Kean, April 2008