BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-243@fjmc.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240829T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240829T210000 DTSTAMP:20240816T204544Z URL:https://fjmc.org/events-2/antisemitism_spertus/ SUMMARY:A New Program from the Spertus Institute to Combat Antisemitism DESCRIPTION:Scroll Down for Registration Form\n\n\nHear about the new Spert us Institute program to prepare\nJewish professional and lay leaders to co mbat antisemitism\nSpertus President and CEO\, Dr. Dean Bell\, will share the tools and training needed by Jewish leaders to respond to the complex and challenging threats reflected in contemporary antisemitism. A new Sper tus Institute certificate program addresses this need with the expertise i t demands.\nThe synagogue attack in Colleyville\, Texas\, in January. The physical assaults against Jews following the May 2021 war between Israel a nd Hamas in Gaza. Jewish college students under a constant barrage of Boyc ott\, Divestment and Sanctions resolutions on campus. With antisemitism ru nning at historically high levels\, Jewish leaders are having to navigate a treacherous minefield when it comes to community relations\, especially in the age of social media.\n\nThe situation is prompting Chicago’s Sper tus Institute for Jewish Learning &\; Leadership to launch a new certif icate to provide Jewish leaders with the tools and training to respond to the complex threats reflected in contemporary antisemitism\, Dean P. Bell\ , Spertus’ president and CEO\, told eJewishPhilanthropy. The Leadership Certificate in Combating Antisemitism program follows the Spertus approach of “applying Jewish learning and using experiences to help engage and a ddress contemporary and emerging issues\,” Bell said.\n\n\n\nDr. Dean P. Bell is the ninth President and CEO of Spertus Institute for Jewish Learn ing and Leadership\, where he also holds a faculty appointment as Professo r of History.\n\nHe has served on the faculty of institutions including De Paul University\, Northwestern University\, Hebrew Theological College\, U niversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and the University of Californ ia\, Berkeley.\n\nA leading voice for the advancement of Jewish higher edu cation\, Dr. Bell has served as President\, Vice-President\, and Secretary -Treasurer of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Jewish Studies.\n\nA his torian by training\, he is widely published in the areas of medieval and e arly modern Jewish history as well as early modern cultural responses to d isaster. His book Plague in the Early Modern World: A Documentary History (Routledge) was published in late 2019\, uncannily just prior to the COVID -19 pandemic. He served as an expert on pandemic history for a range of me dia and organizations during the height of the COVID-19 crisis.\n\nHis cur rent research and publications focus on explorations of vulnerability\, re silience\, and religious leadership.\n\n\n\nSpertus Institute for Jewish L earning and Leadership is an institution of higher Jewish education headqu artered in Chicago\, Illinois. It offers learning opportunities that are " rooted in Jewish wisdom and culture and open to all.  https://www.spertus .edu\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nFJMC Combating Antisemitism Initi ative web page\n\n[ninja_form id=36]\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Combating Antisemitism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR