NJ GSI Conference Schedule
NJ GSI Conference Schedule
Rutgers University Busch Campus Center
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10:00-10:15 am – Registration
10:15 –10:30 am – Welcome
Dr. Paul Winkler – Executive Director, NJ Commission on Holocaust Education
Dina Cohen – GSI
Dr. Gary Rendsberg – Chair, Jewish Studies, Rutgers
10:30 – 11:15 am – Keynote – Contributing to the Conversation: Facts and Fictions
Discussion, Reading and Book Signing by
Thane Rosenbaum
Critically-Acclaimed Novelist , Human Rights Law Professor, Essayist on culture and politics
11:20 – 12:30 – Panel Discussion
Creative Responses to the Legacy of the Holocaust
Carolyn Dorfman – Dance
Naava Piatka – Theater
Debbie Teicholz-Guedalia – Photography/Art
Barbara Wind – Poetry
12:35 – 1:15 pm – Lunch – Honoring the Torchbearers, Sharing Session
1:20 – 2:50 pm – Workshops
Psychological Legacy of the Holocaust – Dr. Irit Felsen
Transforming Memory: A Writing Workshop – Dr. Nancy Gerber
Speaking Effectively about the Holocaust – Esther Finder
Roots in Pages of Testimony – Ilana Apelker, American Society for Yad Vashem
2:50 – 3:00 Wrap-up
3:15 – Special performance: Reading of the play, Dear Esther, about Sobibor survivor Esther Raab, introduced by her son Abe Raab
Book signings Art Showcase
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