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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 lens of popular culture. Featuring Ilsa…

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Upcoming Programs at the Center

Sunday, June 21, 5 pmShtetl: Graphic Works and Sketches of Solomon Yudovin (1920-1940)Exhibit OpeningPresented by YIVO InstituteClick here for more information. Monday, June 22, 8 pm The Merchant of Venice by William ShakespearePlay with MusicPresented by American Sephardi FederationClick here for more information. Tuesday, June 23, 6 pm Changing Lives, Making History: CBST – The First Forty Years – CBST’s 40th Anniversary Book Book…

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Emancipation and the Jews of Metz, Franceby 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 1789 answer to…

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