Chatham to hold a series of Tree of Life remembrance events
To honor those affected on our campus and in our community by the Tree of Life shooting on October 27th 2018, Chatham University is hosting several events dedicated to remembrance, education, service, and togetherness. They include:
"Lest We Forget" Photography Exhibit by Luigi Toscano
October 18 through November 15, 2019
Outside of the Jennie King Mellon Library
Sponsored by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
”Lest We Forget” is a public-facing outdoor exhibit that features giant, high-resolution, intimate photographs of Holocaust survivors from around the world. The exhibit will feature 16 never-before-seen portraits of Pittsburgh-area survivors. Chatham will host one of the photos. To see the remainder of the photos, visit the “Lest We Forget" Exhibit at the University of Pittsburgh.
The portraits confront passers-by as a reminder of history and to raise awareness of the hatred and bigotry present in society today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dop3RP9tI44
Music for Food: Remembering the Tree of Life
October 26, 2019
3:00 p.m., Campbell Memorial Chapel
Chamber music recital, featuring Bach's Sonata in G Minor for solo violin and Schubert’s Piano Trio in B flat major. Roy Sonne, violin, Kathy Melucci, cello, and Yeeha Chiu, piano. Freewill donations will be accepted at the door to benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
Remembering Tree of Life: A day of service, reflection & community
October 27, 2019
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Carriage House
Throughout the day students are welcome to gather in the Carriage House to engage in quiet reflection. Various reflection and wellness activities will take place and counseling services staff will be on hand in the morning and late afternoon.
Diversity Dialogues: Resiliency and Recovery: How the Jewish community is recovering a year after the shooting at the Tree of Life building
October 29, 2019
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Mellon Boardroom
Join Multicultural Affairs and Chabad House as we commemorate the one-year anniversary through conversation and connecting as a community. Guest Speaker: Laura Cherner, Assistant Director, Community Relations Council Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. Laura is a member of the crisis management team that not only responded to the Squirrel Hill shooting the morning of October 27, but continues to pursue avenues to heal and protect the community. Register here.
How to Fight Anti-Semitism - Book Talk with Bari Weiss
November 4, 2019
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Campbell Memorial Chapel
On October 27, 2018, the synagogue where Bari Weiss—an Op-Ed staff editor and writer for the New York Times—became a bat mitzvah was the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in this country’s history. For most Americans, the massacre at Tree of Life came as a total shock. But to those who have been paying attention, it was only a more violent, extreme expression of the broader trend that has been sweeping parts of the world for the past two decades.
No longer the exclusive province of the far right and far left, anti-Semitism finds a home in identity politics and the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of “America first” isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism. An ancient hatred increasingly allowed into modern political discussion, anti-Semitism has been migrating toward the mainstream in dangerous ways, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all.
How to Fight Anti-Semitism makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and liberal values to guide us through this uncertain moment. Not just for the sake of America’s Jews, but for the sake of America.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.bariweiss.com/pittsburgh
Chutz-Pow! Superheroes of the Holocaust Exhibit
January 2020
Chatham University Art Gallery
Sponsored by Multicultural Affairs
CHUTZ-POW! SUPERHEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST is an acclaimed and ongoing comic-book series created and published by The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh that seeks, as its mission, to place stories of UpStanders’ courage, resilience, and sacrifice at the forefront of Holocaust awareness. Each volume is an anthology by award-winning creative collaborators, telling true-life stories of heroic survivors who brought light into some of the darkest recesses of World War II. https://hcofpgh.org/chutzpow/