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Lunch and Learn 2024/2025

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 this practice, by teaching girls how to identify and resist grooming, negotiate their own safety and, at times, even effect... Read More

Lunch and Learn 2024/2025

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 subject based on his extensive experience living in Germany and teaching Jewish history and the history of the Holocaust at... Read More

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