Like the Oakland conference, workshops                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  will begin Saturday at noon, with Sunday planned                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          as the heart of the conference. Keynote speakers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         on Sunday.  Monday morning more workshops.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Academic papers will be presented Monday                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     afternoon. Shabbat observance considered in                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    planning. 

WORKSHOPS

Click on Workshops button on left for details

Preliminary workshop sessions #1 and #2, 

especially for secular Jews and non-Jewish Allies.

Saturday March 25 Session #1  12:00 - 2:00

1) Breaking Silences, Building Relationships: 

Using the Be Present Empowerment Model, Part 1 

by Lillie P. Allen, Noa Mohlabane, and Be Present Trainers

2) Campus Issues of Anti-Semitism by Nancy Belowich-Negron

3) Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism and the Peace Movement 

by Charles Lenchner and Emily Nepon

4)  How Anti-Semitism Weakens Labor Solidarity by

Avram Lyon of the Jewish Labor Committee 

5) Making Connections Between Native American and Jewish 

Stereotypes: How Racism Is Interchangable by Gary Brouse of the 

American Indigenous Coalition on Institutional Accountability and the Interfaith Council on

Corporate Responsibility

Saturday March 25 Session #2  2:30 - 4:30

1) Breaking Silences, Building Relationships: 

Using the Be Present Empowerment Model, Part 2

2) Anarchism and Responding to Anti-Semitism 

by Spencer Sunshine, April Rosenblum, Rob Augman

3) Being a Proud, Progressive Jew: Healing from 

the Effects of Internalized Jewish Oppression (for Jews) 

by Cherie Brown

4) How the Holocaust Affects Us Today by Liz Manlin

5) Progressive? Zionist? The Challenge of Jewish Nationalism

 by Ralph Seliger and Mairav Zonszein

6)  Coming to Compassion through Conflict: Learn Basic 

Skills of Non-Violent Communication by Suzanne Sutton  

Sunday March 26 Session #3  10:00 - 12:00

1) Ethiopian Jews: Why We Fled & What Our Lives Are Today 

by Orit Tabaja

2) Political Cartoons:  When Does Criticism Cross the Line 

into Prejudice? by Rick Davis

3) Blacks and Jews: Being Allies to Each Others' Peoples 

by Joyce Shabazz and Cherie Brown

4) Latino - Jewish Ally Building and Challenging Anti-Semitism 

by Guillermo Lopez

5) Enhancing Cognitive Clarity To Free Us from Prejudice 

by Claudia Chaves

6) Fighting Anti-Semitism in Local Progressive Coalitions by Dara Silverman

Sunday March 26  Session # 4  3:30 - 5:30

1) What We Know and Don't Know about Race, Racism 

and Anti-Semitism by Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr.

2) Jewish Power in Right Wing and Left Wing Imaginations: 

Convergence, Conspiracies and Cautions by Chip Berlet and Esther Kaplan

3) Anti-Semitism in the lgbti/Queer Community: 

An Experiential Workshop (for lgbti folks and allies) by Mimi Jefferson

4) Unite and Overcome: A Comedic Response to Being 

Divided and Conquered by Tiffany Miller and Liz Werner

5) Listening in the Straits: Compassionate Listening When It's Personal! 

by Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Keiner

Monday March 26 Session #5    10:00 - 12:00

1) Art, Reconciliation, and Anti-Semitism by Sharon Cooper

2) Proposed Boycott of Israeli Academics and ENGAGE's 

Response in the U.K. by David Hirsh

3) Are We a Country Club? The Litmus Test for Jews 

on the Left by Martin Schwartz

4) Israelis and Palestinians: Being an Ally to Both Peoples 

by Cherie Brown

5) Asians, Jews, and the "Model Minority" Label: Impact on 

Relations with Whites and 

Other People of Color by John Kuo Wei Tchen

6) Both/And, Not Either/Or: A Conversation for Jews of Color 

and Our Families by Buzuauo Riki Mullu

ACADEMIC PAPERS MONDAY MARCH 27 2:00 - 6:00

2:00 Dr. Ed Beck, President, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East on 

"Faculty Israel Advocates Labeled 'Right Wing' "

2:45 Christopher MacDonald-Dennis on "Seeing the complexity: 

Understanding how Ashkenazi Jewish undergraduates identify in 

social justice educational contexts."

3:30 Dr. David Hirsh, President of ENGAGE from the United Kingdom 

on "Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the Academic Boycott of Israel"

4:15 Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr. on "Anti-Semitism and Racism: 

Cut from the Same Cloth to Achieve the Same Ends"
 

One paper remains to be announced

Click on Academic Papers button at left for abstracts