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Meet Benyamin Cohen, Forward News Director and Author of The Einstein Effect

The Forward‘s news director, Benyamin Cohen, is one of the world’s authorities on Albert Einstein. Catch him on tour for his funny and fascinating new book, The Einstein Effect. See tour dates and details at: EinsteinEffectBook.com

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Jewish Challenges, Jewish Solutions in the Wake of the Unthinkable

The catastrophe of October 7, 2023, not only left hundreds of Israeli families bereft and the nation shaken. It sent a seismic shock through world Jewry.

Even as Jews from across the planet glued themselves to the news and rushed money to Israel, long-standing assumptions were shaken; new divisions appeared and old ones disappeared; and our international community was left with the challenge of reassessing the meaning of peoplehood, the depth of antisemitism, the bedrock that is Zionism, the vitality of diaspora institutions and our collective future.

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Annual Z3 Conference 2023

The Jewish community is in a time of mourning. Now, more than ever, we need to come together as one. Please join Z3 and the Forward as we bring together Jews from Israel and the Diaspora for a time to connect and heal.

This year, Z3 has redesigned the conference to respond to these unimaginable events in a way that will help us heal and draw strength from one another. The conference theme has been re-envisioned around “Stronger Together.”

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“Amid Falling Walls”

Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent), a new musical with music curated and arranged by Zalmen Mlotek, libretto by Avram Mlotek, and directed by Motl Didner, tells the story of the perseverance of the Jewish spirit during the Holocaust as expressed through Yiddish song. Featuring songs written and performed in ghettos, cabarets, partisan encampments in the forests, concentration camps and clandestine theaters, Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) includes firsthand testimony of Holocaust survivors through their own poetry and music. Although many of the young men and women in their 20s and 30s who created this remarkable work were murdered during World War II, their songs are brought to life in this theatrical production, the first of its kind: telling the authentic story of resistance and hope through the words and music of those who were there.

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