Passages to Safety: Untold Stories of Jewish Refugees in Latin America

Welker Room, James Laughlin Music Hall 5798 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

While Latin America only permitted about 84,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, pockets of hope emerged. Tens of thousands of Spanish and Jewish refugees escaped Nazi-occupied Europe with the help of diplomats like Gilberto Bosques Saldívar of México. Jews were also offered crucial passage away from Nazi persecution by governments in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, […]

Elsie Hillman Chair Women and Politics: Soledad O’Brien

Chatham University Welker Room, Laughlin Music Hall, 0 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA

The Elsie Hillman Chair in Women and Politics was established by the The Hillman Foundation, Inc. in 1997 in order to honor the Pittsburgh, PA native and longtime political leader. The Chair serves as an inspiration and role model for the university community and citizens of Pennsylvania. This year's speaker will be Soledad O’Brien. In […]

Legal Appeals Process Educational Program

JCC Squirrel Hill 5738 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

With the final verdict against the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting perpetrator in August of 2023, the trial ended.  But a new phase has now started: the defendant has begun the appeal process.  If trials are somewhat familiar to most of us — a judge, a jury, lawyers, witnesses, and a defendant in a courtroom — appeals […]

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