1:00 pm: Hybrid Event - Richard Stern: A Doorway to Heroism
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm October 31, 2021
Rabbi W. Jack Romberg joins us to discuss his new book A Doorway to Heroism: A decorated German-Jewish Soldier who became an American Hero about his great uncle Richard Stern. Stern was a German Jew, a decorated German soldier in World War I, a resister in Cologne at the start of Hitler's reign of terror, and a Silver Star decorated U.S. Army soldier in World War II.
7:00 pm: A Virtual Jewish Celebration of Veterans Day Video Premiere
7:00 pm – 7:30 pm November 7, 2021
As we honor all military veterans on Veterans Day, this video is for the Jewish community. Jews have served honorably in our country's military from colonial days to the present. As we remember the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the twentieth anniversary, hear how this impacted some Jewish service members.