What a Week -- Six Programs in Four Cities

Putting final touches on JPEF's e-learning "Living and Surviving" module.

JPEF is making a signficant impact in cities from coast to coast this week and we wanted to share the good news.

Tuesday, JPEF will be leading an educator institute for 50 advanced Holocaust educators in Miami. On Wednesday we will do the same in Palo Alto, and on Thursday in Los Angeles in collbaration with the ADL, LA Museum of the Holocaust, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Our exhibit, Pictures of Resistance is now in both Atlanta and Miami. (We are also preparing for the South Africa trip of the exhibit in January, with teacher trainings in conjunction with the exhibit in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg.)

JPEF's E-learning platform will have a soft launch later this week. We are finishing up the videos, finessing the programming, perfecting the compression, and entering thousands of line of code to make it all work. Check back here to see when it is live.

As always, please give us your thoughts, requests, and feedback. You can reach our general email box here.

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"Pictures of Resistance" - Booked through 2011

On view at The Breman Museum , Atlanta, Georgia 

"Pictures of Resistance" is completely  booked for 2011 and our 2012 schedule is filling up quickly. 
Two new bookings,  The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum and Florida Gulf Coast University closed out the year for available months in 2011. 
In December, the exhibit travels to South Africa for a three city tour where Mitch will be bringing the work of JPEF with talks and educator trainings. Recent openings include the exhibit at the Breman Museum in Atlanta, Georgia  and a two month run in Miami, Florida (both in concert with Teaching with 'Defiance' educator workshops). 

"Pictures of Resistance" is a must-see exhibit. The images of Jewish resistance by Faye Schulman are enthralling. Community members attending the exhibit were moved throughout the weeks it was on view.” -- Sally Oken Arts, Culture and Adult Program Director Oshman Family JCC/  Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life, Palo Alto, CA

If you are interested in brining "Pictures of Resistance" to your community in 2012  contact:  exhibit@jewishpartisans.org


-Jan Lauren Greenfield

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Teaching with 'Defiance' in Palo Alto

Teaching with ‘Defiance’:

Jewish Resistance and the Bielski Partisans 

Free Educator Workshop on Using the Film in Your Classroom

   Wednesday, Nov. 3 – 6:00-9:00

   Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School

   450 San Antonio Road - Palo Alto, CA

Find out how to use the film 'Defiance' and the true story of the Bielski Jewish partisans -- who saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, and successfully fought back against the Germans and their collaborators -- to teach History, Ethics, Leadership, Jewish Values and more.

FREE TO EDUCATORS - PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE:

• 30+ pg curriculum

• 'Defiance' film on DVD

• Made-for-classroom DVD of excerpts and primary-source testimonials from former Bielski partisans.

 Bring a colleague and get a $20 Amazon gift card

$20 Deposit required (REFUNDED on completing workshop)

* Register online at www.jewishpartisans.org/defiance-southbay or call 415-563-2244 *

Workshops, Partisan Speakers, Museums and More

In the coming weeks, JPEF has several Teaching with 'Defiance' Educator Institutes coming up in concert with several exciting events:

Oct. 15: Columbia, SC

With keynote speech by Jewish partisan Frank Blaichman, hosted by The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust

Over 80 Educators came to the South Carolina Workshops. In photo, Jewish partisan Frank Blaichman shares his story.

Oct. 17:  Atlanta, GA 
In conjunction with two exhibits at the Bremen Museum: JPEF's 'Pictures of Resistance' and 'Courage and Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski Brothers'

An educator at the JPEF workshop at the Breman Museum advocates for Zus Bielski's point of view during an an activity as part of the training.

Nov. 3: Los Angeles, CA

Featured session at the ADL 2010 Holocaust Education Workshop. Includes tour of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust at its new site.

Nov. 4: Palo Alto, CA

JPEF's first South Bay educator institute for several years; hosted by

Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School.

More workshops to be announced soon, including Omaha, NE. To bring a JPEF trainer to your community, please contact jonathan@jewishpartisans.org or 415-53-2244 x104.