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Tonight: A Special Evening Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Murder of Leon Klinghoffer Aboard the Achille Lauro

An Evening of Conversation & Stories

On
October 8, 1985, terrorists representing the Palestinian Liberation
Organization stormed the Achille Lauro cruise ship, murdering Leon
Klinghoffer, who was vacationing with his wife and friends. His tragic
death became a rallying cry in the fight against terrorism. In the
ensuing years the story was co-opted and retold through the…

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Upcoming Programs at the Center

Sunday, June 21, 5 pm
Shtetl: Graphic Works and Sketches of Solomon Yudovin (1920-1940)
Exhibit Opening
Presented by YIVO Institute
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Monday, June 22, 8 pm
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Play with Music
Presented by American Sephardi Federation
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Tuesday, June 23, 6 pm
Changing Lives,…

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Emancipation and the Jews of Metz, France
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History

“The means of making the Jews happy and useful? This is it: stop making them unhappy and useless. Give them, or rather return to them the right of citizens, which you’ve denied them against all divine and human laws.” This was Zalkind Hourwitz’s…

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