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Entebbe at 50: A Rescue With Global Impact

Tuesday, May 19
7:00 PM EDT - 8:00 PM EDT

Virtual Event

Cost: $65

Venue

  • Zoom
Gefsky Community Scholar Rabbi Danny Schiff

4-session virtual series: Thursdays at 7:00 PM, May 19–Jun. 9

The Gefsky Community Scholar position is endowed by the H. Arnold and Adrien B. Gefsky Endowment Fund of the Federation’s Jewish Community Foundation.

This course has been canceled.

Fifty years after the daring hostage rescue in Uganda, we will contemplate the mission’s hidden strategy, political fallout and lasting legacy. We will consider how this singular operation reshaped global perceptions of Jewish power and vulnerability.

Classes are generously supported by the Elaine Belle Krasik Fund for Adult Education.

Venue

  • Zoom

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