ARTS & CULTURE continued

Israeli Culture and Dance | Presented in partnership with Department of Dance at Kennesaw State University, this performance and talk featured Ido Gidron (Israel Institute Visiting Artist), Elinoy Granot (Israel Fellow at KSU Hillel), Ruti Padan (Hebrew Professor & Israeli folk dance practitioner), and Anat Sultan-Dadon (Consulate General of Israel) in a talk moderated by Leslie Gordon. KSU dancers also performed a new dance produced by Gidron.

An Evening of Poetry | In partnership with Poetry@Tech at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Jewish Book Council, the event featured acclaimed poets Erika Meitner, Eleanor Wilner, and Afaa Michael Weaver.

Selected Arts & Culture Events

• Lucy Adlington | The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

• Andrew Feiler | A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America

• Bruce Feiler | Being Southern Jews in America Today

• Silvia Forti | The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal

• Laura Leibman | Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family

• Mark Oppenheimer | Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting

• Howard Reich | The Art of Inventing Hope

• Mindy Weisel | AFTER: The Obligation of Beauty

Workshop

FULL DISCLOSURE: An Interactive, Art-based, Story-telling Project | This two-part workshop, led by Sheila Miller and Barbara Rosenblit, explored artistic ways to honor women who left an indelible mark on participant’s lives.