Let My People Go — The Women Who Began the Movement to Rescue Soviet Jews

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

This film-and-discussion program tells the story of how a group of young Jewish women, in Britain, Ireland and several other western countries, known as the “35s” because of their median age, created an international movement to rescue persecuted “refusenik” Jews from the Soviet Union. In the new film Iron Ladies, these remarkable women share their untold story on film, joined by Natan Sharansky and others.

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ April 4-7, watch the film Iron Ladies on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, April 6 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Sharon Rosen (right) is the former global Director of Religious Engagement at Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest non-governmental organization dedicated to peacebuilding. She is featured in the film Iron Ladies as one of the activists in the group, “the 35s.” A facilitator in interreligious programming and advancing religious freedom and reconciliation, she worked with field offices in over 20 countries. She co-created the Universal Code of Conduct on Holy Sites for the protection of sacred spaces and for the past eight years, directed a Jewish-Muslim religious leaders’ initiative to expand peace within religious communities in Israel. Born in the UK, Sharon has lived in Jerusalem for 43 years.

Janna Kaplan (left) is a Senior Research Scientist at Brandeis University, specializing in Neuropsychology and Space Research. Her degrees are from the University of Leningrad. A former refusenik, she came to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1982 at the age of 28 as a Jewish political refugee, fleeing state sponsored anti-Semitic violence and intellectual and cultural suppression. In the United States, she was able to rebuild her life, find personal fulfillment and professional success.

Roger Childs is the Senior Production Executive and Commissioning Editor of Religious Content at Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ and he is the Producer of the film Iron Ladies. A graduate of Cambridge University, he has over 30 years’ experience as a producer, executive producer and commissioning editor, delivering a wide variety of award-winning content across many genres and all media, for broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4 (UK), ARTE (Europe), PBS (USA), ABC (Australia) and RTÉ (Ireland).

Dr. Shulamit Reinharz, who will moderate, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.