Alex reflects on events of 2020 in his family, with a virtual wedding and a new home, and in his legal work with incarcerated women. He describes the pressures to help those in need during covid-19 and challenge of drawing boundaries around work.He and his wife were active in the Black Lives Matter protest events in Portland.
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU Education Manager Luna Goldberg and FIU Department of Modern Languages Professor Andrea Fanta interview Dr. Oren Stier, Director of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program at Florida International University.
Interview with Joel Titleman, owner of Mile End Deli, in Brooklyn, NY. Joel talks about his wife, (and entire family) an emergency room doctor, pregnant at 36 weeks coming down with COIVD, going to Canada to have the baby, and having a Zoom naming ceremony. Jewish values, feeding Jewish food, the community, his background, BLM, healthcare, shabbat and more.
Rabbi Sandra Lawson reflects on how, with the COVID pandemic, "the walls came down" on ritual and accessibility for Judaism, and how she draws on her multiple identities during these tumultuous times.
