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SUMMARY:"Mrs. Judy" - The Canadian Woman Who Secretly Rescued the Jews of Syria
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nxxxxx \nOn this Chanukah program we honor Judy Feld Carr\, a woman of exceptional courage and valor who chose to make a difference. Over a 28-year period\, she secretly brought to freedom 3228 Jews prohibited from emigrating from Syria. Working with smugglers and bribing government officials\, she removed most of that community from veritable bondage. In addition\, she clandestinely smuggled out of that country priceless ancient articles of Jewish worship. Until Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Israeli Intelligence Organizations publicly acclaimed her activities\, the world\, including the Jewish world\, had no inkling of this Canadian Jewish woman’s covert life. She is the subject of historian Dr. Harold Troper’s The Rescuer\, now in its second edition. The rescue was the best-kept secret in the Jewish world. \nxxxxx \n“Her remarkable story stands as a testament to what one person can achieve when compassion is harnessed to determination.” – Harold Troper \nxxxxx \nLEARN HER INCREDIBLE STORY\nxxxxx\n \n  \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ December 3-6\, watch a documentary film about Judy Feld Carr on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n⇒ Sunday\, December 5 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program featuring a conversation between Judy Feld Carr and Shulamit Reinharz hosted by Broadway star Samantha Massell and with live musical interludes. A link will be provided to all who register. \nxxxxx \nMEET THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES\nxxxxx \nSamantha Massell is a New York based actress and singer who has appeared on Broadway\, on television\, in movies\, in the cabaret scene\, and in commercials. She was last seen on Broadway as Hodel in the acclaimed revival of Fiddler on the Roof. She has originated lead roles in many world premiere musicals including Steven Schwartz and Charles’ Strouse’s Rags at The Goodspeed Opera (Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Actress)\, The Flamingo Kid at Hartford Stage\, and Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse. On the small screen\, Samantha has held recurring roles on Mr. Mercedes and Chicago Fire and guest starred on NCIS: New Orleans\, The Good Fight\, and Elementary. BFA\, University of Michigan\, Phi Beta Kappa. @smassellsings www.samanthamassell.com \nxxxxx \nMEET THE INTERVIEWER\nxxxxx \n \nDr. Shulamit Reinharz was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with long stays in Israel. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University\, both in sociology. She is the author of thirteen books\, including American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (Brandeis\, 2005); Observing the Observer (Oxford\, 2011); and One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life (Transaction\, 2011) and is completing Surviving Holland\, 1939-1947\, a book about her father’s Holocaust experience. In 2017\, she retired from Brandeis and became Professor Emerita. She is a sought after speaker and interviewer and has participated in several Sunday programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nxxxxx \nMUSICAL GUESTS\nxxxxx \nAsher Shasho Levy (right) is a Syrian Jewish musician and scholar who seeks to spread the beauty of the Sephardic tradition. He performs and teaches internationally and is the founder of the Aram Soba Ensemble\, a group dedicated to the musical heritage of Syrian Jewry. Studying with elders and scholars in the Sephardic community of Los Angeles\, Asher has amassed a large repertoire of liturgical music\, secular song in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic\, as well as piyyutim\, pizmonim and baqashot\, the religious poetry and song of the Jewish Middle East. \n \nIntertwining many sounds of world music\, Bruce Burger (left) is RebbeSoul. His music finds the crossroads between reggae and klezmer\, winding and weaving through rock\, pop\, jazz and funk. His Fringe of Blue album combines traditional Jewish songs with original compositions and is one of the best-selling Jewish albums of all time. Currently\, he is producing artists in the Middle East\, the US\, UK\, and South Africa. One project is with Shlomit Levi\, star Yemenite singer. Their debut album\, The Seal of Solomon\, was released in 2015 and has been broadcast on NPR and in Canada\, Israel and Yemen. \nxxxxx \nRegistration for this program is closed.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/mrs-judy/
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Concert,Discussion,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200628T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200628T163000
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SUMMARY:Virtual event: The Power of Music
DESCRIPTION:Music has the unique power to transport an individual outside of the here and now.  This event is a demonstration of that power.  We will begin by watching the Oscar-winning short documentary film The Lady in Number 6 — Music Saved My Life (38 minutes) about the extraordinary life of concert pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Herz Sommer.  Then we will be treated to a musical response to this tender and touching film by singers Cantor Arianne Brown and Stephan Kirchgraber and composer/pianist Neely Bruce.  Not to be missed! \n \n \nTickets are by donation of any amount. The event is a fundraiser\, with a portion of the proceeds going to refugee assistance. Our designated grantee is the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)\, the oldest refugee aid organization in the world.  We suggest a minimum donation of $36 per household\, but please give more if you can or less if you need to.  All tickets are 100% tax-deductible.   \nIf you love music\, this program will feed your soul! \n \nxxxxx \nThe event will begin at 3 p.m. ET/12 noon PT. \nMEET THE MUSICIANS \nCantor Arianne Brown\, of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington DC\, was invested as a Hazzan and received a Master of Arts in Sacred Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary.  She has appeared at Carnegie Hall\, Safra Hall\, Disney Hall\, the Krakow Jewish Music Festival\, and Warsaw’s Ida Kaminska State Theatre. She sang the national anthem at Dodger Stadium and the Kodak Theater for President Obama’s Jewish Heritage address and for Prime Minister Netanyahu.  Theater roles include Lili in Carnival\, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof\, Hope in Anything Goes\, Luisa in The Fantasticks\, and Zorah in Ruddigore. Opera credits include roles in Carmen\, The Marriage of Figaro\, and Amelia Goes to the Ball. Arianne was proud to produce and perform in the premiere of highlights from Neely Bruce’s Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides for Adas Israel’s Garden of the Righteous ceremony. Arianne is married to Rabbi Randy Brown and is the proud Ima of three little boys. \nComposer/pianist Neely Bruce is the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is the composer of over 800 works\, including operas\, oratorios and other choral music\, orchestral works\, solo songs\, seven documentary scores for public television\, and some 14 hours of solo piano music. He is the only pianist to have accompanied all of the solo vocal music of Charles Ives. In 2005\, Bruce set the Bill of Rights to music\, in the style of William Billings. This work\, for chorus and eight instruments\, has been performed 35 times. His most recent major work is a dramatic oratorio entitled Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides. \nStephan Kirchgraber\, bass\, made his debut with the Miami Opera\, after studies at the University of Illinois and in Munich\, returning to Miami for principal roles in Macbeth\, Norma\, Turandot\, and Alberto Franchetti’s Cristoforo Colombo. In recent seasons\, he sang at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice in Rigoletto and Verdi’s Requiem\, and in Fidelio with the Shippensburg Festival Symphony and Chorus. He appeared in Aida with the Opera de Puerto Rico and in Andrea Chenier with Culturarte de Puerto Rico\, released on DVD. Mr. Kirchgraber made his European debut in Die Meistersinger at the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto\, toured with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Pecs in Beethoven’s Ninth\, and appeared in Salome at the Opernhaus Zurich. He also appeared with the opera companies of Augusta\, Baltimore\, Orlando\, Palm Beach\, Pittsburgh\, Tampa\, and Utah\, and has toured with the New York City Opera. In 1998\, he received the Robert M. Lauch Memorial Grant from the Wagner Society of New York. \nRegistration for this event has closed. \n\nxxxxxThis event is co-sponsored by the University of Miami’s Holocaust Teacher Institute.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-event-the-power-of-music/
CATEGORIES:Concert,Discussion,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Performance in the Mormon Tabernacle for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
DESCRIPTION:The Sousa Mendes Foundation and the Utah Youth Orchestras and Ensembles present a performance in the Mormon Tabernacle of the oratorio Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides by Neely Bruce.  This free concert\, conducted by the world-renowned choral conductor Barlow Bradford\, will be held on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day of 2018.  The event is part of the Temple Square Concert Series. \nThe piece tells the dramatic true story of the Holocaust hero Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, the Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux\, who saved thousands of lives in the spring of 1940 by issuing Portuguese visas to refugees desperate to escape Nazi-occupied France.  From Portugal these refugees boarded ships to freedom in the United States and other final destinations. \nSoloists include David Sauer\, tenor (Aristides)\, Michelle Pedersen\, soprano (Angelina)\, Andrew Neumayer\, baritone (Rabbi Kruger)\, Adam Griffiths\, tenor (Salazar)\, and Elizabeth Peters\, soprano (Andrée Cibial).  The narrator is the actor Michel Gill (César).  An accompanying video is by Carole Kim. \nFeaturing the University of Utah Chamber Choir\, the University of Utah A Cappella Choir\, and seven high school choirs from across the state:  Syracuse High School (Syracuse\, UT)\, Pineview High School (St. George\, UT)\, American Heritage School (American Fork\, UT)\, Alta High School (Sandy\, UT)\, Westlake High School (Saratoga Springs\, UT)\, Woods Cross High School (Woods Cross\, UT)\, and Hillcrest High School (Midvale\, UT). \nThe Mayor of Salt Lake County\, Ben McAdams\, will deliver opening remarks.  In attendance will be Dr. Daniel Mattis\, a Sousa Mendes visa recipient living in Utah\, and two of Sousa Mendes’s grandsons:  Gerald Mendes and Aristides Mendes\, one of whom also lives in Utah. \nThe piece has been performed with a reduced ensemble in Los Angeles in 2016\, but this will be the first performance of the definitive version with full orchestra. \nSponsors include:  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Foundation\, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation\, the Lawrence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation\, the John and Marcia Price Family Foundation\, Zions Bank\, the United Jewish Federation of Utah and numerous individual donors.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/musical-performance-in-utah/
LOCATION:Mormon Tabernacle\, Temple Square\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Gala event:  "A Toast to Freedom!"
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in a beautiful setting next to the Statue of Liberty for a gala luncheon — “A Toast to Freedom!” — to benefit the Sousa Mendes Foundation. \nMaster of Ceremonies:\nActor Michel Gill (“House of Cards”)\, the son and grandson of Sousa Mendes visa recipients. \nHonoring:\nCongressman Jerry Nadler of New York’s 10th Congressional District\, recognized by Time magazine for his political courage; \nDr. Eva Fogelman\, psychologist and advocate for Holocaust survivors; author of the seminal book on Holocaust rescue\, Conscience & Courage; \nMaggie Favretti\, teacher at Scarsdale High School; founder and advisor of the group Students for Refugees in Westchester County. \nLive musical performance:\nHighlights from “Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides” with tenor Benjamin Sloman as Aristides de Sousa Mendes\, Michel Gill narrating as his twin brother César\, soprano Marina Harris as Angelina de Sousa Mendes\, tenor Gilad Paz as Salazar\, Pedro da Silva on Portuguese guitar\, and the composer Neely Bruce at the piano. \nFlowers provided by Amy’s Greenhouse.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/gala-event-a-toast-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage\, 36 Battery Place\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Award Ceremony,Concert,Luncheon
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SUMMARY:Concert:  Requiem in memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
DESCRIPTION:Conductor Sharon Xavier de Sousa and the Mission Chamber Orchestra of San José\, California\, present a performance of the Requiem in memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes by the Portuguese composer Luis Cipriano. \nTickets:  $25 general\, $20 senior\, $15 student and $10 child. \nTo order tickets online go to www.missionchamber.org. For more information call (408) 236-3350.
URL:https://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/concert-requiem-in-memory-of-aristides-de-sousa-mendes/
LOCATION:Five Wounds Portuguese National Church\, 1375 East Santa Clara St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95116\, United States
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