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May 13, 2012 - Mother’s Day
Lincoln's Famous Letter to Young Fanny McCullough About Death, Loss & Memory
“All that I am or hope ever to be,” Abraham Lincoln famously said, “I get from my mother – God bless her.” That she died when he was nine was, perhaps, his great introduction to what he called “the back side of this world.” The loss of a parent is, very often, one’s first experience of the “back side” and all its attendant grieves – as Lincoln explained here...
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Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray
Many Jews were involved in the American Civil War; the number of Jewish soldiers grows with every new research of the war. This film focuses on faith under fire and the participation of the Jews in the war that split the nation.
The next public screening will be at the American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY, November 1, 2011
