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Lunch and Learn // The Music of Terezin // Apr. 24, 2025

April 24, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

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In this talk with music, composer, writer, and pianist Michael Schachter will explore his forthcoming music-theatrical project based on the history of the Terezín Ghetto, a WWII concentration camp outside Prague where the Jewish inmates resisted the Nazis through musical, dramatic, and artistic expression. In particular, he’ll focus on the musical activities of Eric Vogel, a trumpeter who founded a jazz band in Terezín called the Ghetto Swingers, and Rafael Schächter, a pianist and conductor who led the inmates in performances of such monumental works as Verdi’s Requiem.

About OZ’s Lunch and Learns:

In-Person in the Ohavi Zedek’s Social Hall. No Zoom unless conditions change, but a number of Lunch & Learns will be filmed by CCTV for posting 2 to 3 weeks after the event on the cctv.org web site — when on their site search for “Ohavi Zedek”.

Speakers cover a wide range of topics. A delicious lunch will be offered, which is served promptly at NOON. The talks begin at about 12:15pm and end no later than 1:15pm (including some time for Q&A).

Suggested cash contribution of $10 for food can be paid on the registration form or collected at the event — but feel free to give more or less. Please also consider sponsoring one or more Lunch & Learn to help cover expenses. Information on this is on the registration page.

Please Register Here to Help Us Plan

2024-2025 Series of Lunch and Learn Talks:

  • Thursday, September 26, 2024: A Storytelling Lunch Hour. Readings by Lenny Levine & David Schein
  • Thursday, November 21, 2024: The Challenges Facing Caregivers. A talk by caregiver and author Alan Rubel.
  • Thursday, December 19, 2024: Bridges of Hope: Learning about Mental Health. A presentation by staff & volunteers with NAMI-Vermont
  • Thursday, January 16, 2025: Volunteering to Stop Human Trafficking in Vietnam. A talk by OZ member Sue Schein
  •  Thursday, February 20, 2025: Jewish Life & Antisemitism in Today’s Germany. A talk by UVM Professor of History & Holocaust Studies Alan Steinweis
  •  Thursday, March 20, 2025: Artists & the Holocaust: Documentation, Memory, Elegy. A visual presentation by former UVM Fleming Museum Director Janie Cohen
  •  Thursday, April 24, 2025: The Music of Terezin. A talk, with music, by composer Michael Schachter
  •  Thursday, May 15, 2025: Last Messages from the Dying. An exploration with End of Life Doula Sarah Villanueva

Download Our Lunch & Learn Brochure with Details on Each Talk

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Lunch and Learn // Bridges of Hope: Learning about Mental Health // Dec. 19, 2024

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue 188 North Prospect Street, Burlington, VT, United States

Please Register Here to Help Us Plan One in 5 U.S. adults experiences a mental illness each year, but many of us know little about mental health conditions. Without meaning to, we may contribute to misconceptions. Some common myths are that mental illnesses are a result of personal weakness or poor upbringing – they aren’t!... Read More

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Lunch and Learn // Volunteering to Stop Human Trafficking in Vietnam // Jan. 16, 2025

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue 188 North Prospect Street, Burlington, VT, United States

Please Register Here to Help Us Plan Tight up against the Chinese border in northern Vietnam is a mountainous, tribal area from which, almost daily, Hmong girls are tricked, drugged, kidnapped and smuggled deep inside China. There, they’re sold into coercive marriages and domestic, agricultural or sexual slavery. Disoriented, most lack the language, means and skills to escape. Most disappear forever. Long-time OZ member Sue Schein will describe how she worked with partners to design and launch workshops aimed at interrupting…

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Lunch and Learn // Jewish Life & Antisemitism in Today’s Germany // Feb. 20, 2025

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue 188 North Prospect Street, Burlington, VT, United States

Please Register Here to Help Us Plan Germany is today home to about 120,000 people who identify as Jews: less than one percent of the world's Jews and to less than two-tenths of one percent of Germany's total population. But for obvious historical reasons there is great interest in Jewish life, as well as antisemitism, in contemporary Germany. Alan Steinweis, Professor of History and Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, will share his insights into that…

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Lunch and Learn // Artists & the Holocaust: Documentation, Memory, Elegy // Mar. 20, 2025

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue 188 North Prospect Street, Burlington, VT, United States

Please Register Here to Help Us Plan Janie Cohen, past Director of UVM’s Fleming Museum, will provide an illustrated talk about the work of several artists who experienced the Holocaust directly or indirectly. Cohen will also focus on two of the former, Henryk Ross, who clandestinely photographed life in the Lodz ghetto while serving as the Jewish Council’s official photographer, and Hannelore Baron, a New York artist who witnessed Kristallnacht as a child and escaped Germany with her family. About…

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April 24, 2025
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Ohavi Zedek Synagogue
188 North Prospect Street
Burlington, VT 05401 United States
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