About AJC
AJC seeks a secure Jewish future in a more just world, believing that each pursuit depends upon the other. Through AJC’s 26 U.S. regional offices, 8 offices overseas, and 28 official partnerships with communities around the world, AJC works to:
• Build bridges • Advance Security
• Promote human rights • Support Israel
• Strengthen Jewish life
AJC Westchester has traditionally been one of the most vibrant and exciting AJC regions. With over 1,000 members throughout Westchester and Fairfield Counties, AJC Westchester works to fulfill this mission through programs and activities which bring the mission to life at the local level. The Region welcomes members who support its endeavors and participate in its programs. Upcoming programs include:
· March 24 to April 14 - Tenth Annual Westchester Jewish Film Festival at the Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY. Tickets are selling quickly!
· April 27-29 - AJC 2011 Global Forum in Washington, D.C. - Connect with world leaders. Be a global Jewish advocate. Engage on the most important issues of the day at AJC’s annual Meeting. There is nothing else like it!
· June 1 - Annual “Israel … New Perspectives” Gala. Honoring Harriet Schleifer, past AJC Westchester president. Westchester Marriot, Tarrytown
For more information on these programs or to sign up for our weekly e-blast, visit us on the web at www.AJC.org/westchester.
About Temple Sholom of Greenwich
Temple Sholom is a traditional egalitarian Conservative synagogue located in beautiful Greenwich, Connecticut. Its membership is diverse, coming from all across the Conservative Jewish spectrum. The synagogue uses a “Big Tent” (Ohel Gadol) approach to create a warm, caring, vibrant and innovative sacred community (Kehillah Kodoshah) where individual and family lives are enriched through spiritual, educational and intergenerational bonding, socialization, as well as personal Jewish exploration and growth. It strives to inspire and nurture our members as they explore, enrich and discover their Jewish selves. Temple Sholom is a Jewish home that offers a place of belonging and an atmosphere of extended family as we join together to worship, study and lead Jewish lives.
Temple Sholom is the largest synagogue in Greenwich serving Greenwich, Rye Brook, Armonk, Stamford and the surrounding communities. A full-service synagogue with modern facilities, we offer a wide variety of worship services including traditional minyanim, musical family services, a learner’s minyan, and young child services, as well as our regularly scheduled Shabbat, Festival and High Holy Day services. It has a fully accredited Nursery School, a dynamic and exciting Religious School and an innovative high school educational program called Sababa (meaning “cool” in Hebrew), as well as award-winning youth groups.
AND
PRESENT
ADDRESSING RACISM IN
GERMANY TODAY
A Lunch ‘n’ Learn Featuring
Eugene DuBow
and Donald Snyder
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Temple Sholom
300 E. Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, Connecticut
Featured Speakers
Eugene DuBow is a 44-year veteran professional with the American Jewish Committee and holds the title of Senior Advisor.
Long active in the German–American Jewish dialogue, Mr. DuBow was appointed the Founding Director of AJC’s Berlin Office (now referred to as the Ramer Institute) and resided in that city for 2 ½ years (1997-2000). In 1996, Mr. DuBow was decorated by the German government with the Officer’s Cross (Bundesverdienstkreuz) for his work in German-Jewish relations.
After leaving Berlin, he worked for 2 years in New York as Director of Planned Giving and in 2002, he formally retired from full-time service. Since that time, he has continued on the AJC staff working on AJC’s German programs. Mr. DuBow was also “Consultant in the U.S.” for a German organization, Bridge of Understanding, which provided programs for groups of young American Jews that it brought to Germany for familiarization visits. He also publishes a newsletter, DuBow Digest, which covers American-Jewish–German relations.
Before coming to AJC, Mr. DuBow worked in the correctional field with the New York State Division of Parole. During his early AJC career, he was the Area Director in both Westchester County (NY) and Chicago. In 1980, he became the Director of AJC’s entire field operation (Community Services Director) supervising its 32 domestic field offices (1980-1997). He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky (B.A. History) and holds M.A. degrees from New York University and Hebrew Union College (LA). He is married with two grown daughters and lives in Nyack, New York.
Donald Snyder worked for seven years as a foreign correspondent in Europe for American and Canadian publications and reported for the Mutual Broadcasting System. He then worked as a news producer for NBC. Now, he is a free-lance writer for the Forward and the Hearst newspapers.
Don was a recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship for Advanced International Reporting at Columbia University. He also received an award for the best internet report on the crisis in American emergency rooms by the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Program
I. Opening Remarks
· Rabbi Mitchell M. Hurvitz, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sholom of Greenwich
II. Welcoming Remarks and Introduction of Speakers
· Scott Richman, Regional Director, AJC Westchester
III. Addressing Racism in Germany Today. Speakers:
· Donald Snyder, Retired NBC News Producer.
· Eugene DuBow, Author of the Dubow Digest, former Director of AJC’s Berlin Office/Ramer Institute
IV. Question and Answer Session
V. Concluding Remarks
Thank You
· AJC Westchester Board of Directors
o Candy Gould, Regional President
o Leon Gould and Harry Paul, Diplomatic Outreach Committee Chairs
· AJC Westchester Staff
o Scott Richman, Regional Director
o Jill Friedman, Associate Director
o Vicki Kline, Leadership Development Associate
o Valencia Latty-Wynter, Office Administrator
· Temple Sholom
o Rabbi Mitchell M. Hurvitz
o Cantor Asa Fradkin
o Steve Friedman, Chief Operating Officer
o Lori Baden, Communications, Membership and Programming Director