Tisha B’Av Program 2025
August 3 @ 3:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Tisha B’Av 2025 Program
3:30 PM – 8:30 PM at The Carlebach Shul, 305 West 79th Street
Why are Many People Still Blaming Jews for the World’s Problems?
Jews in the Medieval Period were often blamed for being responsible for diseases, well poisoning, blood libels, and various misfortunes. Today, Jews are attacked on both sides, as communists and leftists by the Right, and as colonizers and racists by the Left. Many conspiracy theories are attributed to Jews. Israel is held to a standard that rewards terrorist goals by constantly criticizing Israel for defending itself, and that in turn encourages further violence and its reprisals.
Films:
From Hell to Hell is the award-winning film that centers on the Kielce Pogrom in Poland on July 4, 1946. Forty-two Jews were murdered and 50 others wounded in the violence that was sparked by a false accusation that Jews had kidnapped a Polish child, a resurgence of the blood libel myth.
The Truce is a Martin Scorsese film about Primo Levi’s last days at Auschwitz and the stark challenges he faced to return home to Italy.
ADL clips will look at contemporary antisemitism and anti-Israel protests.
A discussion will follow until the fast ends at nightfall on August 3rd. A light break-fast will be available.
Program Chaired by Historian Dr. Karen Sutton, PhD
Karen Friedman Sutton received a Fulbright Award in 1987 for research in German/Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution 1941 – 1944. She received a PhD in 1995 from the University of Illinois and subsequently became Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Braun Holocaust Institute. In 1995, she researched Lithuanian archives in Vilnius that had become open in the post-Soviet era. She is a Professor of History at Touro College.
