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Abe: Half-Palestinian, half-Israeli boy tries to unite his family by cooking fusion cuisine. Amazon
Rachel Harris, David Myers, Nomi Stoltzenberg, Dara Goldman, Liat Maggid Alon, “Unorthodox: A Panel Discussion”
May 17 (Sunday)
11 a.m. Daniela Weil, “The First Jews of New Amsterdam,” Sephardic Heritage Project. Meeting ID: 767 2699 0912 Password: 6XPyLz
May 18 (Monday)
9 a.m. Zvi Zohar, “Halakah from a Sephardic Perspective,” Center for Jewish History.
May 19 (Tuesday)
4:30 a.m. Danielle Willard-Kyle, “Living in Liminal Spaces: Refugees in Italian Displaced Persons Camps, 1945-51,” Center for Jewish History,
May 20 (Wednesday)
7:30 a.m. Patricia Haberer Rice, “Doctors Who Dared [to treat the persecuted in the Shoah)” US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
12:30 p.m. Tobi Kahn, “Jewish Artists in Post-war Art,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
1 p.m. Rachel Gross and Jordan Rosenblum, “What We Talk About When We Study Jewish Food,” San Diego Jewish Community Center.
4 p.m. “Covid-19 and the Hasidic Community,” Jewish Currents.
May 21 (Thursday)
3 p.m., Michael Berenbaum and Pamela Nadell, “The Plot Against America: Antisemitism Run Amok,” National Museum of American Jewish History,
4 p.m. Beth Wenger and Deborah Dash Moore, “Photographs of the Depression: A Jewish Angle”
4 p.m. David Stern, “The History of a Page: The Talmud as a Physical Books,” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington.
4:30 p.m., Cathy Lesser Mansfield, “The Role of Judges, Attorneys, and Bar Associations during the Holocaust,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com