ADL to Southern Baptist Convention: Stop Efforts To Convert Jews

New York, NY, September 21, 2005…The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned as "insulting, disgraceful and dangerous" plans by leaders of Southern Baptist Convention – the nation's largest Protestant group - to consider forming a partnership with a Messianic Jewish group in order to missionize Jews in the United States and around the world. The League called on the Southern Baptist Convention to stop their efforts to convert Jews.

On September 20, the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention approved a proposal to study whether the SBC's North American and international mission boards should formally recognize the Southern Baptists Messianic Fellowship – a Messianic Jewish group – as "an evangelistic mission to Jewish people in the United States and throughout the world."

The executive committee's vote to recommend that the proposal be put on the agenda at next year's SBC annual convention follows the launching last year by the SBC of the Pasche Institute of Jewish Studies at Criswell College in Dallas, whose purpose is to teach Baptists leaders how to minister to Jews.

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: 

The idea of the Southern Baptist Convention using a so-called Jewish messianic group – which misrepresents two faiths – to target Jews for conversion is disgraceful, insulting and dangerous.   

We are outraged over the continuing efforts by the Southern Baptist Convention to target Jews for conversion, especially by considering 'deputizing' a Jewish Messianic group, part of a deceptive movement that falsely claims they are interested in Jewish practices when the real goal is to convert Jews to Christianity. These efforts should be stopped once and for all.

Together with the establishment last year of an institute aimed at teaching Baptist leaders how to minister to Jews, the Southern Baptist leadership continues to show its disrespect and disregard for the validity of Judaism and the Jewish people.

 

 

 

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CLAUDE        10232 07 Jan 2001
CLAUDE, Yvette       26181 28 May 1999
CLAUDE, Yvette       40806 13 Jul 2000
CLAUDIA        18503 19 Dec 2004
CLAUDIA        24369 13 Mar 2005
CLODE, Bill     Minnie Freer 64259 14 Oct 2001
CLOTH, Amy Beth Living     9557 25 Sep 2004
CLOTH, Isabelle       2476 27 Dec 2003
CLOTH, Leah Living     38516 28 May 2000
  CLOTH, Martin Living     6555 29 Jan 2006
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CLOUD, ?     Thomas Johnson + ? ? 129170 07 Nov 2004
CLOUD, Mary Emma     John William + Maria Henderson 129170 07 Nov 2004
CLOUD, Mary Emma     John William + Maria Henderson 129170 07 Nov 2004

CLOUD, Norma Esther     Thomas Johnson + ? ? 129170 07 Nov 2004
CLOUD, Richard Living   William Robert + Sally Levine 6792 12 Jun 2005
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CLOUD, Thomas Johnson     John William + Maria Henderson 129170 07 Nov 2004
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CLOUD, William Robert Living     6792 12 Jun 2005
  CLOUD, William Webster       6400 23 Jan 2005
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CLOUT, Rosalinde Living   Ivan Reginald + Annie Evelyn Mygind 72798 24 Aug 2002
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CLOYD, Brant     Jonathan W. + Mary A. Cloyd 17130 16 Oct 2005

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Jew Conversion Plan May Explain Arson Attacks, Media Spin
 News/Comment; Posted on: 2006-03-10 17:04:54 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
Did the ADL's hate-filled rhetoric inspire last month's Southern Baptist church-burning spree?

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA -- In September of 2005, ADL Führer Abraham Foxman issued a press release blasting Southern Baptists for planning a major campaign to convert Jews.

He wrote:

"The idea of the Southern Baptist Convention using a so-called Jewish messianic group -- which misrepresents two faiths -- to target Jews for conversion is disgraceful, insulting and dangerous.

"We are outraged over the continuing efforts by the Southern Baptist Convention to target Jews for conversion, especially by considering 'deputizing' a Jewish Messianic group, part of a deceptive movement that falsely claims they are interested in Jewish practices when the real goal is to convert Jews to Christianity. These efforts should be stopped once and for all.

"Together with the establishment last year of an institute aimed at teaching Baptist leaders how to minister to Jews, the Southern Baptist leadership continues to show its disrespect and disregard for the validity of Judaism and the Jewish people."

On Wednesday, Fox News reported that between February 3 and 11, ten churches -- all Southern Baptist -- were hit by arsonists. Five being destroyed and five damaged.

 

  • Ashby Baptist Church - Brierfield, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Rehobeth Baptist Church - Lawley, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Old Union Baptist Church - Brierfield (damaged)
     
  • Antioch Baptist Church - Antioch, Alabama (damaged)
     
  • Galilee Baptist Church - Panola, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church - Boligee, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Pleasant Sabine Baptist Church - Centreville, Alabama (destroyed)
     
  • Dancy First Baptist Church - Aliceville, Alabama (damaged)
     
  • Spring Valley Baptist Church - Emelle, Alabama (damaged)
     
  • Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church -Sulligent, Alabama (damaged)

    (According to Fox News, most of the fires appear to have been set in the sanctuary near the altar. Message of hate?)

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    Birmingham Jewish community

           
     


    Three close friends -- believed to be Jews -- were arrested Wednesday. Benjamin Nathan Moseley and Russell Lee Debusk Jr., both 19-year-old theater majors at Birmingham-Southern College, appeared in federal court and were ordered held without bond pending a hearing planned for Monday. Matthew Lee Cloyd, a 20-year-old pre-med junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was also arrested.

    Birmingham-Southern College, with just 1,562 students, has been cited by numerous national publications as the best among southern liberal arts colleges and as one of the "best buys in higher education." Although it has no specific religious affiliation, in September of 2006, the Birmingham-Southern College Judaic Studies Fund arranged for more than one hundred area teachers to attended an all-day workshop on the "Holocaust."

    Birmingham has a very large Jewish community, which operates the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI), the Birmingham Holocaust Education Committee (BHEC), the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA), the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham (CAGB); the Birmingham Jewish Federation; the Hadassah Zionist Woman's Organization (HZWO); the Levite Jewish Community Theater; the Emanu-El synagogue; the Beth-El synagogue; the Miles Jewish Day School; the Birmingham Jewish Foundation; the Birmingham Interfaith Cultural Mission (BICM); and the above-mentioned Judaic Studies Fund at Birmingham-Southern College.

    In February the groups collaborated to cosponsor "The Holocaust: Remembrance and Reflection," a long-planned and advertised citywide series of propaganda programs featuring "art" exhibitions, concerts, films, speakers, and classroom instruction. Coincidentally, the church arsons took place at about the same time.

    		 
             




    No Harsh Words for Suspects

    Controlled media have formed a tight security zone around the suspects -- refusing to divulge their ethnic or religious backgrounds, while praising them as wonderful people and offering explanations on their behalf. This has contributed to speculation about the trio being homosexual.

    Lemmings are told that the arsons were a "joke that went too far" where "no racial pattern exists," and that "all were Baptist churches because that is the dominant faith in the region," and that Birmingham-Southern College is "Methodist-affiliated" -- hinting that the suspects are Christian.

    An adoring Birmingham News went so far as to characterize DeBusk as "a wonderful drama student, very enthusiastic, well behaved, talented, often the first to settle an argument between friends, a peacemaker," etc.

    The Birmingham News spin on Matthew Lee Cloyd included these words of praise: "By all accounts, Matthew Lee Cloyd was a scholar - an intelligent boy with a bright future in medicine, just like his father. He graduated... with honors and several advanced placement courses under his belt. He was in the National Honor Society and inducted into Mu Alpha Theta math society his junior year. He was voted Most Outstanding Student in History and was a member of Students Against Destructive Decisions." (Program aimed at keeping students from consuming alcoholic beverages prior to driving, and discouraging the use of drugs.)

    Today, the Associated Press issued a story in an apparent attempt to help the suspects by offering an explanation for their alleged serial arson spree: drinking and "warped bravado."

    "Three college students suspected of a string of Alabama church fires may have been out drinking when they began their spree. Throughout the month long investigation, authorities said alcohol could have led to a warped bravado that sparked the arsons, and initial interviews with the suspects bore out the theory, according to one officer," stated the AP article.

    This "drinking" story is running now, in hundreds of Jewish newspapers.

    The paper USA Today has nothing negative to say about the crimes or the suspects either, calling the three alleged serial arsonists "stars at school." The paper merely laments that the crime spree "derailed promising futures." They go on to describe the suspects in loving terms via interviews with friends and students, as if they had been taken hostage in Iraq.

    "Russ is just a goofy, fun-loving guy, almost like a cartoon character," said Jeremy Burgess, 19, DeBusk's roommate. "He's always nice, respectful and hardworking. He studied more than I did."

    However, this tidbit is also revealed:
     

     

     

     

     

     
    $1,000,000 to rebuild

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A coalition of organizations has launched a campaign to raise $1 million to help rebuild 10 rural Baptist churches damaged by arsonists.

    The joint effort involves the Alabama regional office of the National Conference for Community and Justice, Birmingham television station WBRC, AmSouth Bank and clergy from a wide range of religions faiths.

    "These fires are not just an attack on 10 rural churches," Lemarse Washington, executive director of the NCCJ's Alabama regional office, said. "Regardless of faith, or race, we are all pained when a house of worship is burned."

    Donations to the "Rebuild the Churches Fund," which will be administered by the NCCJ, are being accepted at all of AmSouth's 685 offices across the Southeast. AmSouth has made a corporate contribution of $5,000 and will match employee contributions. News reports have estimated that the uninsured costs of replacing the churches could reach $1 million.

    Birmingham area clergy including Ed Hurley, pastor of South Highland Presbyterian Church, are also helping lead the effort. South Highland has contributed $1,000 and the Birmingham Jewish Federation has previously contributed $2,000.

     

     

     

    Judge approves bond for suspects in Ala. church fires

    Associated Press
    Mar. 16, 2006 10:20 AM

     

     
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Three college students accused of setting fire to a string of rural churches can be released from jail on $50,000 bond each, provided they stay away from alcohol, cars and home computers, a judge ruled Thursday.

    In a brief order, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert R. Armstrong Jr. said all three suspects must live with their parents in what amounts to house arrest with electronic monitoring as they await trial.

    None of the three has a criminal record, and all come from "normal, stable, caring, working-parent homes," the judge said in approving bond.

    But, he wrote, all three are under 21 and "drink alcoholic beverages in amounts that would be excessive for adults."

    The judge rejected prosecutors' plea that the three remain jailed until trial.

    Benjamin N. Moseley and Russell L. DeBusk Jr., both 19, and Matthew L. Cloyd, 20, were arrested March 8 on charges of conspiracy and setting fire to one of nine small Baptist churches that burned in early February.

    Evidence indicates the fires began as a prank that went out of control on a night of drinking and hunting. Defense attorneys have said the fires were not crimes of hate.

    According to court documents, Cloyd told a witness that he and Moseley "had done something stupid" and that they set fire to a church "as a joke."
     



    The men torched five churches on Feb. 3 in Bibb County, south of Birmingham, according to the federal agent's sworn statement. According to the statement, Moseley told investigators he and Cloyd set four more fires in west Alabama four days later as a diversion.

    The judge ordered the three to avoid contact with each other and to attend any "supportive" mental health counseling recommended by probation officials. They also must undergo drug testing, Armstrong ruled.

    Meanwhile, a "service of grief and hope" over the fires and arrests was planned at Birmingham-Southern College, where Moseley and DeBusk are students. Both men have been suspended.

    Cloyd also attended the school before transferring to the University of Alabama at Birmingham last fall.
     

     

    'Missionary of Lucifer' Pleads Guilty to Church Burnings
    Indiana man confesses to more than 25 acts of arson.

    By Chris Herlinger | posted 12/6/00
     

    An Indiana man hostile to organized Christianity has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for arson attacks at more than two dozen U.S. churches in the mid- and late-1990s.

    Jay Scott Ballinger, 38, had confessed to attacks on more than 25 churches in at least eight states in the southern and Midwest United States. A self-described "missionary of Lucifer", Ballinger faces further charges for five church fires in Georgia.

    He was sentenced November 14 after pleading guilty in July to 20 counts of destroying church property. He was also ordered to pay $3.6 million in restitution.

    Ballinger's crimes were part of what was labeled a national epidemic of church fires in the 1990s. Hundreds of such fires were set, many of them at churches with mainly black congregations, leading to claims by the National Council of Churches (NCC) that they were racially motivated. Partly because of the NCC campaign, the attacks became a subject of intense discussion across the U.S., prompting expressions of concern by President Bill Clinton, and the establishment of the National Church Arson Task Force.

    Ballinger who is white, attacked both mainly black and mainly white churches. He carried out more acts of arson than any other church arsonist, authorities said.

    Also convicted in the case was Ballinger's girlfriend, Angela Wood, 25, who on November 16 was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison for acting as an accomplice. Earlier she told the court that Ballinger had beaten her, threatening her if she did not help him set the fires.

    Rose Johnson-Mackey, director of research and programs for the interdenominational advocacy group, National Coalition for Burned Churches, told ENI that her organization was pleased with the guilty plea. She praised the work of federal and state authorities. But she added there were unanswered questions about the case. She doubted that Ballinger and his girlfriend could have committed the crimes without assistance, given the wide geographic range of their targets. The churches targeted were spread across several states, from Indiana and Ohio in the Midwest, to Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina in the South, along with California.

    "I don't see how it could not be [that others were not involved]," Johnson-Mackey said. "Knowing the geography, how could this be done with just two individuals and without any help? It doesn't make any sense."

    Many of the churches, Johnson-Mackey said, were in extremely remote and isolated areas. "You'd have to do a lot of work to find some of these churches."

    Authorities had initially downplayed any connection between the fires, but then came to the conclusion they had been committed by the same person. "The question we have is whether we are just getting the tip of the iceberg," Johnson-Mackey said. An investigation conducted by her organization had indicated that there were 826 church arson attacks in the United States from 1995 to 1997, and up to 700 since 1998.

    "The sessions and speakers have been truly inspirational and a valuable source of information towards approaching Israeli advocacy on college campuses. Knowledge, strategy, and confidence are key and David Project has certainly made those its aim."
    ―     Elina Kukuy, Birmingham-Southern College

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    Homemade_thermite

    WOW, what memories. I'm 63 now and I still remember my Gilbert chemistry set. It was a metal cabinet which opened into four sections.

    I supplemented the equipment and chemicals via various trips to lower manhattan NYC. I only lived 12 miles away and in the 1950's it was no sweat for a couple of 15 yr olds to go there.

    One of my favorite concoctions was     thermite. It burned so hot it would burn through steel.

    I bought aluminum powder and iron filings at the hardware store and mixed them half and half. In order to ignite this mixture you needed a very hot source so I put a liberal amount of black powder on top of a big pile of home made thermite. Then I put about a tablespoon of Potassium Permanganate on top of that.

    An eyedropper of glycerine was squeezed onto the Potassium Permanginate and then you backed off. Soon the chemical reaction between the Potassium Permanginate and Glycerine (I never understood why)ignited the black powder and soon the incredible white glare of the thermite was burning itself into my retinas.



    All of the chemicals were available to a 15 year old either at the hardware store or the local pharmacy.

     

    Church Arson Suspects Allowed Bond; Choose Not to Leave - State Charges Threatened
    March 16, 2006, 06:53 PM EST

    There are new developments in the case of three college students charged with burning nine Alabama churches.

    Over the objections of the U.S. Attorney's office, a federal magistrate approved granting bail for Ben Moseley, Russell DeBusk and Matt Cloyd at $50,000 each.

    The trio - along with their lawyers - were back in federal court Thursday and they appealed to the judge to allow them to be released to live with their families.

    But it doesn't appear they're leaving the Shelby County jail where they've been held since authorities arrested them last Wednesday.

    That's because state and local officials were prepared to file their own charges if any of the suspects tried to make bail and leave the jail. They say it's a pre-emptive strike to keep the young men behind bars.

    It's clear that despite the fact two months have passed, people are still angry and hurt over the arsons.

    "When you burn five churches, actually, nine churches, something had to be done," said Bibb County District Attorney Michael Jackson.

    That's why Jackson and Attorney General Troy King asked Bibb County's Sheriff to get arrest warrants on state charges late Tuesday night.

    "A lot of people are being very dismissive of this, saying these were just college pranks or just jokes. I don't view it that way," King said.

    King is also concerned Matt Cloyd, Ben Moseley and Russell DeBusk could go on the run.

    "They come from wealthy families, families that perhaps could afford for them to go someplace else," he said.

    State guidelines recommend between two and twenty thousand dollars bond for each of the five arson counts the trio could face. But that's just a recommendation.

    "We'd have a bond hearing," Jackson said.

    If he had his way in front of a judge, freedom would cost a lot.

    "We'd ask for several million dollars bond for each of these defendants," Jackson said.

    King says the state has no intention of trying the men in state court before the federal case, but he was ready to force Cloyd, Moseley and Debusk into the state system if they tried to leave custody.

    Sheriff Moldena

    Those arrest warrants for Cloyd, Moseley and DeBusk are still active, and Jackson says he was ready to serve arson and burglary charges if the trio walked out of federal custody.

    Why not pursue the state charges at the same time?

    A federal rule says when defendants are convicted on the state level first, the federal government will drop its charges.

    Would the trio ever face a state jury? It depends entirely on what happens in federal court. If state proseuctors aren't happy with that outcome, they can still file the charges and go to trial then.

     
     
     
     
    State adds charges after bond is set for fire suspects

    By Mike Linn
    Montgomery Advertiser
    Three men charged in federal court in connection with nine church fires now face state arson and burglary charges, a move by state prosecutors to secure their detention after a federal magistrate granted them bond Thursday morning.

    Matthew Cloyd, 20, and Ben Moseley and Russell DeBusk, both 19, were set to be released Thursday from the Shelby County jail on $50,000 bond to their parents' custody and required to wear electronic-monitoring devices, U.S. Magistrate Robert Armstrong Jr. ruled.

    In anticipation of Armstrong's ruling, state prosecutors obtained warrants Thursday for each suspect on five counts of arson and five counts of burglary in connection with five fires Feb. 3 at Baptist churches in Bibb County, said Michael Jackson, Bibb County district attorney.

    "My understanding is they don't want to deal with us; they want to remain in federal custody," Jackson said.

    Jackson said he would ask for $1 million bond for each of the defendants if they are arrested on state charges.

    Chris Bence, spokesman for Attorney General Troy King, said the warrants were issued Thursday because of the judge's decision.

    "Had bail been denied, I don't think we would have (sought) warrants at this time," Bence said. "But state charges were always a reality. They broke state law. They burned Alabama churches in Alabama cities, churches that belonged to Alabamians."

    Bence said more charges likely would be filed against Moseley and Cloyd in connection with four Feb. 7 church fires near the Mississippi line. DeBusk was not involved in the Feb. 7 fires, federal prosecutors said.

    Prosecutors accuse the three in a string of church fires last month that elicited fear among residents and prompted some congregations to guard their churches overnight.

    Cloyd told a witness that he and Moseley "had done something stupid" and had set fire Feb. 3 to a Bibb County church "as a joke," according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Birmingham. Moseley told investigators he and Cloyd set four more churches on fire Feb. 7 near the Mississippi line as a diversion, the complaint said. DeBusk was not involved in the Feb. 7 fires, federal prosecutors said.

    In his order, Armstrong noted that the defendants have no prior criminal records, come from stable and caring families, and were successful in college prior to the offenses.

    If convicted on all state counts, each suspect would face between 15 and 150 years in state prison. They each face between seven and 40 years in federal prison on conspiracy charges and to deliberately setting fire to Ashby Baptist Church in Bibb County.

    Defense attorneys for Cloyd and DeBusk said they weren't surprised by the state's maneuver. They said their clients are looking forward to working with all interested parties to come to a swift resolution.

    "We're certainly interested in reaching a resolution as soon as a possible," said Tommy Spina, Cloyd's attorney. He said he'd like to work a combined deal with the state and federal prosecutors, but the effort "would require a lot of coordination."

    "I'm hopeful the state feels the same way," he said.

    Despite the incident, Cloyd's family is enduring well, he said.

    "They love their son, and it's an unconditional love," he said. "They also feel the pain that is being experienced by the congregations who have suffered losses as a result of the fires."

    Calendar of Events

    Birminghan_college_Jewish

    2005-2006 Calendar of Events

    Birmingham Holocaust Exhibitions
    and Related Programs

     

    *”Through the Eye of the Needle”:
    The Fabric Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz,
    Birmingham Museum of Art, February 26 – April 30, 2006

    *”The Children's Story”: 
    Children’s Drawings from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, March 7 – April 30, 2006

    *Birmingham Holocaust Education Committee – Co-Sponsor

    Saturday, September 17, 2005
    Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA)

    Teachers’ workshop, recommended for Middle and High Schools.

    This jointly sponsored workshop will be for both Holocaust centered exhibitions, Through the Eye of the Needle at the Birmingham Museum of Art and "The Children's Story" at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
    8:20 am – 3:00 pm

    Monday, Ocotober 17, 2005
    Birmingham Southern College (BSC)

    Monday Night at the Movies Film Series
     This film series is in connection with BSC 150th Anniversary. The theme for the BSC @ 150 Advancing Human Dignity

    Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier (Danish 2000)
    7:00 pm in the BSC Norton Theatre

    Friday & Saturday, October 28 & 29, 2005
    Collat Jewish Family Services Shabbat

    Temple Emanu-El, Temple Beth-El, Knesseth Israel Congregation
    Shabbat Theme “The Holocaust and Human Dignity”

    Monday, November 14, 2005
    Birmingham Southern College

    Monday Night at the Movies Film Series
    Cuckoo by Alexander Rogozhkin (Russian 2002)
    7:00 pm in the BSC Norton Theatre

    Sunday, November 20, 2005
    Birmingham Holocaust Education Committee (BHEC)

    Concert performance by Temple Beth-El Cantor Daniel Gale (who also studied voice and opera at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music) and Oral Moses, professor of voice and music literature at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, “Songs of Struggle, Songs of Faith:  Celebrating the African-American and Jewish Musical Traditions”.
    4:00 pm at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 1530 Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203.

    Sunday, January 15, 2006

    Reflect & Rejoice: A Community Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Leslie B. Dunner, conductor
    Alys Stephens Center, Jemison Concert Hall
    $25, $15, $7
    3:00 pm

    This second annual concert pays tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ASC once again joins with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Alabama Symphony Orchestra for a glorious program of music and community celebration.

    Monday, February 13, 2006
    Birmingham Southern College

    Monday Night at the Movies Film Series
    Hope and Glory by John Boorman (British 1987)
    7:00 pm in the BSC Norton Theatre

    Monday, February 27, 2006
    Birmingham     Museum of Art

    Docent training for Through the Eye of the Needle
    Teacher and Trainer: Bernice Steinhardt
    Monday, 9:30 to 11:30 am

    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute docents are invited to attend

    Sunday, February 26, 2006
    Birmingham Museum of Art

    Through the Eye of the Needle opening reception
    Guest speaker:  Bernice Steinhardt, daughter of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz.

    In addition to the speaker, we will show the thirteen minute filmed interview with Esther Krinitz.   Possible appearance by the Polish Ambassador to the United States. A book signing at the Museum for Bernice Steinhardt’s book on her mother, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, will be held during the opening. The book is scheduled for release in September 2005.
    Participating: Birmingham Chapter of Hadassah
    2:30 pm

    Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    Birmingham Public Library
    Brown Bag Lunch Series takes place at noon in the 3rd floor Arrington Auditorium of the Linn-Henley Building, located across the street from the Downtown Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place. For additional information call 226-3604.

    The Holocaust Remembrance and Reflection. Dr. Jerry Rosenberg, New College, University of Alabama, has been studying and teaching the Holocaust genocide, prejudice and ethics for almost 30 years. He is eminently qualified to remember and reflect on the Holocaust, and how each of us is affected by this tragic event in world history.

    Monday, March 6, 2006
    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI)

    Docent training for "The Children's Story", in the Abraham L. Woods Jr. Community Meeting Room.
    10:00 am– 12:00 pm
    6:00 – 8:00 p.m. (repeated again that evening)

    Birmingham Museum of Art docents are invited to attend

    Tuesday, March 7, 2006
    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
    Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

    The Children's Story" opening reception
    Guest speaker: Peter Brown, Senior Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.     He will also show original film footage from Terezin.
    6:00 pm

    Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    Birmingham Public Library
    Brown Bag Lunch Series takes place at noon in the 3rd floor Arrington Auditorium of the Linn-Henley Building, located across the street from the Downtown Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place. For additional information call 226-3604.

    Lessons in Courage: Holocaust, Rescuers. Dr. Donald Berry, University of Mobile, reviews the activities of four unique individuals who, at great risk to themselves and their families, provided means for Jews to escape the horrors of Europe and/or sheltered Jews in their homes.

    Thursday March 9, 2006
    Birmingham Museum of Art

    Film, Hiding and Seeking

    Over the course of its compelling story, Hiding and Seeking explores the Holocaust's effect on faith in God, and its impact on faith in our fellow humans. It embeds these issues in a deeply personal inter-generational saga of survivors, their children and their children's children. Filmed in Jerusalem, Brooklyn and Poland, the film focuses on the filmmaker's attempt to stop the transmission of hatred from generation to generation, at a time of a resurgent fundamentalism and religious hatred throughout the world.
    7:00 pm

    Sunday, March 12, 2006
    Birmingham Museum of Art

    “Sounds of Faith” Musical Program

    This program will feature music from the two main exhibitions Through the Eye of the Needle and the Art of Ethiopia. A Christian Ethiopian choir from Atlanta will sing, as well as the Birmingham Jewish Chorale. 
    2:30 pm

    Monday, March13, 2006
    Birmingham Southern College

    Monday Night at the Movies Film Series
    Princess and Warrior  by Tom Tykwer (German 2000)
    7:00 pm in the BSC Norton Theatre

    Tuesday March 14, 2006
    Birmingham Museum of Art

    Artbreak, thirty-minute talk in Eye of the Needle gallery
    Holocaust survivor, Max Herzel of Birmingham will speak.
    12:00 pm

    Wednesday, March 15, 2006
    Birmingham Public Library
    Brown Bag Lunch Series takes place at noon in the 3rd floor Arrington Auditorium of the Linn-Henley Building, located across the street from the Downtown Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place. For additional information call 226-3604.

    Music from the Holocaust. Vocalist Daniel Gale, Cantor, Temple Beth-El, pianist Lester Seigel, Associate Professor of Music, Birmingham-Southern College and Jane Seigel will perform songs in Yiddish which describe life in the “shtetls” – small Jewish communities with a unique culture no longer in existence after the Holocaust, and will offer words of explanation.

    Saturday March 18, 2006
    Alys Stephens Center

    The Klezmatics
    Jemison Concert Hall
    $45, $35, $25
    8:00 pm

    The Klezmatics play soul-stirring Jewish roots music. Since their founding in NYC’s East Village in 1986, they have celebrated the ecstatic nature of Yiddish music with works which are, by turn, wild, spiritual, provocative, reflective and danceable. The L.A. Times says, “from songs of praise to Yiddish carnival songs, from a kick-butt workers march to slamming Klezmer tunes old, new, frantic and mysterious, the Klezmatics rise up once again.”

    Wednesday, March 22, 2006
    Birmingham Public Library
    Brown Bag Lunch Series takes place at noon in the 3rd floor Arrington Auditorium of the Linn-Henley Building, located across the street from the Downtown Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place. For additional information call 226-3604.

    A Holocaust Survivor  Speaks. Max Steinmetz was born in Romania. From 1941, at the age of 17, until 1945, when he was liberated by allied forces, he was forced into ghettos, incarcerated at Auschwitz and imprisoned at Birkenau and Dachau. He escaped from the German Death March, seeking refuge in a farm house.

    Wednesday, March 29, 2006
    Birmingham Public Library
    Brown Bag Lunch Series takes place at noon in the 3rd floor Arrington Auditorium of the Linn-Henley Building, located across the street from the Downtown Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place. For additional information call 226-3604.

    Rev. Brent P. McDougal will bring us information about the Rawanda Genocide.

    Thursday, March 30, 2006
    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
     Odessa Woolfolk Gallery

    Presentation comparing the Nuremburg Laws and Jim Crow Laws by Dr. Horace Huntley, Director of BCRI oral history program and faculty member at UAB Department of History, along with two Jewish community members, Sol Kimerling and Stephen Brickman.
    6:00 pm

    Holocaust related programming

    Coordinated through the Birmingham Holocaust Education Committee (BHEC), with programming assistance from the BCRI. BHEC will display the Holocaust Posters “The Courage to Care” at the Library.
    12:00 pm

    Sunday April 2, 2006
    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
    Birmingham Museum of Art
     

    A busload of 8th -12th grade students from Whitwell, TN, who inspired and star in the documentary Paper Clips, will come to Birmingham for the day, led by principal Linda Hooper. The 12th graders on the trip are part of the original class that began the Paper Clips project. The Whitwell students are scheduled to meet with local youth at Temple Emanu-El, followed by a tour of both exhibits. They will attend the afternoon program and reception at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

    Sunday April 2, 2006
    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
     Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

    Presentation by David Gewirtzman, a 76 year old Holocaust survivor, and Eugenie Mukeshimana, a 31 year old survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

    David Gewirtzman started speaking to groups about 10 years ago. He joined the Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center of Nassau County and presently serves as a board member and chairman of the Education Committee.  Ms. Mukeshimana has spoken many times in the Albany, NY area where she lives.  She will soon graduate from St. Rose College.  She is dedicated in the pursuit of spreading the story of the horror in Rwanda, the causes and the dismal reaction of the world both during and after its occurrence. Alone or with Eugenie, Mr. Gewirtzman has given well over 300 talks to schools, universities, churches, synagogues and various institutions, including Vanderbilt, U of Minnesota, U of Michigan and U of Massachusetts.  They have appeared on NBC, ABC, and PBS Lehrer hour, CNN Wolf Blitzer and have been interviewed by BBC, Voice of America and NPR. The Anti-Defamation League honored them last year at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. (along with Mr. Smith of the Paper Clips fame).  In December 2004, they were honored at the United Nations with the Global Peace and Tolerance Award.
    3:00 pm

    Thursday, April 6, 2006
    Birmingham Museum of Art

    Amy Walsh, an expert on works of art stolen during the Holocaust, will speak.

    During World War II Nazi's confiscated as contraband personal property from Jewish families including priceless art and artifacts. During the last decade a concerted effort has been made to find this art and identify the rightful owners. Museums are now under law directed to research the origin of works appropriated during the war years. Amy Walsh is an authority in research and recovery of these works of art.
    6:30 pm

    Monday, April 17, 2006
    Birmingham-Southern College

    Foreign Film Series

    The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski, about a Polish musician who is Jewish and is struggling to survive the destruction of Warsaw ghetto in World War II.  The Pianist is about one family, and one man’s survival.  While The Pianist   focuses on one person's extraordinary story, it also emphasizes that almost every Holocaust survivor possesses an equally terrifying account.
    7:00 pm     in the BSC Norton Theatre

    Sunday April 23, 2006
    Birmingham Museum of Art

    Film, Paper Clips

    Whitwell, TN is a small, rural community of less than two thousand people nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. Its citizens are almost exclusively white and Christian. In 1998, the children of Whitwell Middle School took on an inspiring project, launched out of their principal's desire to help her students open their eyes to the diversity of the world beyond their insulated valley. What happened would change the students, their teachers, their families and the entire town forever… and eventually open hearts and minds around the world.

    Paper Clips is the moving and inspiring documentary film that captures how these students responded to lessons about the Holocaust, with a promise to honor every lost soul by collecting one paper clip for each individual exterminated by the Nazis. Despite the fact that they had previously been unaware of, and unfamiliar with the Holocaust, their dedication was absolute. Their plan was simple but profound. The amazing result, a memorial railcar filled with 11 million paper clips (representing 6 million Jews and 5 million gypsies, homosexuals and other victims of the Holocaust) which stands permanently in their schoolyard, is an unforgettable lesson of how a committed group of children and educators can change the world one classroom at a time.
    2:30 pm

    Tuesday, April 25, 2006
    Birmingham-Southern College

    Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Commemoration

    Speaker, Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, where she directs the Institute for Jewish Studies, and author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving.

    Yom HaShoah Commemoration coordinated by Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss.
     7:00 pm

    Sunday, May 7 – Thursday, May 18, 2006
    Birmingham Interfaith Cultural Mission to Prague and Israel

    Space is limited! Sign up today!

    Approximately $4262 per person, double occupancy, includes round-trip air from Birmingham, hotels, guides, air-conditioned buses, entrance fees, gratuities and taxes, plus daily breakfast, most lunches and many dinners.
    May 18-21, Optional 3-day Israel extension
    Chair: Karen Allen
    Co-Chairs: Jim Sokol, Joel Rotenstreich and Rhonda Hethcox.
    Steering Committee:  Stephen Brickman, Dr. Robert Corley, Susan Greene, Ricki Kline, Dr. Lawrence Pijeaux, Lenora Pate and Odessa Woolfolk.

    Enjoy in-depth sightseeing tours with your friends, clergy, educators, journalists, volunteers, art enthusiasts and Birmingham leaders.

    Highlights in Prague include: a reception at the residence of Ambassador and Mrs. Bill Cabaniss, walk in the St. Vitus’ Cathedral set inside the 1000 year old Prague Castle, stroll across the Charles Bridge and explore the Old Town Square, wander through the Jewish Quarter and the Jewish Museum, tour and pay our respects at Terezin, a former fortress town converted into a concentration camp by the Nazis during WWII.

    Jerusalem, the City of Gold:  timeless, eternal, and where the ancient and modern meet.  Amidst its singular beauty are the religious shrines of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and reverently preserved archaeological sites, with world-famous museums, arts and crafts lanes and lively entertainment thriving side by side with government institutions.  Walk the Via Dolorosa, meander through the Old City and feel the spirituality at the Western Wall.  Climb Masada, float in the Dead Sea.  Ascend the hilltop towns of Nazareth and Safed, view the Mt. of Beatitudes, visit Tabgha, enjoy a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, or the Kinneret, and witness some of our own travelers being baptized in the Jordan River or having a Bar/Bat Mitzvah.  Enjoy home hospitality in Rosh Ha’ayin, our “Sister City”.

    This most unique citywide Mission is co-sponsored by the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the Birmingham Holocaust Education Committee.

    Mission Travel Agents: Don Hawkins and Meridith Price, All Seasons Travel

    “EVERYTHING GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL ALWAYS HAPPENS IN A MOMENT, THAT’S WHY THEY LAST FOREVER.”  LET THIS BE YOUR FOREVER.

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