The sessions will play at the top of the campaign page at the times listed below. No need to register. All sessions are free and open to all!
At a Glance
9:00 am: Dina Maiben, EdD – Do You Speak Jewish?
10:30 am: Emily Bengels, PhD – Jewish Links to The Little Prince
11:30 am: Meredith Polsky MS, MSW – Disability Inclusion in Jewish Education
12:30 pm: Tricia Dressel, M.S., SPHR – Managing the Multi-Generational Organization
1:30 pm: Amanda Chorowski Katz, MS – Judaism and Intimate Partner Violence
2:00 pm: Ann Perazzelli, EdD – The Imposter Phenomenon
2:30 pm: Joseph M. Davis, PhD – Treasures of the Tuttleman Library and the Birth of Modern Hebrew
3:30 pm: Donna Guerin, MLIS, Nina Warnke, PhD, Julie A. Fisher, PhD – A First Look at the Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection
4:00 pm: Jacques J.M. Shore, CM – Discovering the Writings and Work of Dr. Lena Allen-Shore
5:00 pm: David G. Cotter, PhD – The Holocaust: The Genocide With its Own Name
6:30 pm: Ruth Sandberg, PhD – The Righteous Among the Nations
7:30 pm: Philip Moore, EdD – The Professor and The Poet
8:00 pm: David Malter, MA – Commitment! How to Get it AND Keep it!
Schedule with Course Descriptions
9:00 am
Do You Speak Jewish?
Gratz Alumna (Ed.D Education in Leadership, 2020) and Faculty
Assistant Professor of Hebrew
Language Program Coordinator
Academic Director of Gratz Academy
As Jewish communities spread to the four corners of the earth, they adopted and adapted the languages of their host countries. Some of the Jewish languages, like Yiddish and Ladino, are well known. Others, like Haketia, Yavanit, Juhri, Italian, and Judeo-Malayalam are less familiar. Interestingly, many of these language names mean “Jewish”, so if you ask people if they speak the language, you are really asking them, “Do you speak Jewish?” Gratz College’s resident linguist, Dr. Dina Maiben, will discuss the fascinating phenomenon of Jewish languages, with special emphasis on Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino."
10:30 am
Jewish Links to The Little Prince
Gratz Alumna (Ph.D. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2020)
With the exception of the Bible, The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery is the most translated book in the world. It is often taught out of the context of its time period, but this presentation links the novella to Jewish culture by way of the author's friendship with Leon Werth, to whom the book is dedicated. There are links to the Holocaust, Talmud, and Tikkun Olam which are all highlighted through quotes from letters, memoirs and the text itself.
11:30 am
Disability Inclusion in Jewish Education
Gratz Faculty
Matan, Inc. Founder and National Director of Institutes and Training
Supplementary School educators face unique challenges in addressing the needs of all learners in the classroom. You contend with limited hours in which to get to know your students and cover the required material; you see students after they have already put in a full day of school, or on a Sunday morning following a sleepover at a friend’s house or a late night movie. This class will explore the ins and outs of select learning disabilities and developmental issues, how they may present in a classroom setting, and ways to respond effectively. By increasing our knowledge of a variety of special needs (including ADHD, sensory issues, processing challenges, anxiety and more), we will discover how accommodating these students actually benefits all students in our classrooms.
12:30 pm
Managing the Multi-Generational Organization
Gratz Faculty
Director of Human Resources, Mazzoni Center
1:30 pm
Judaism and Intimate Partner Violence
Gratz Alumna (M.S. Nonprofit Management and Jewish Communal Service, 2018)
Executive Director, Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse, Washington, DC.
Many deny the existence of abuse and violence in the Jewish community, but Intimate Partner Violence affects everyone regardless of religion, gender, class or age. Learn how victim service agencies address the needs of the members of the Jewish Community.
2:00 pm
The Imposter Phenomenon
Gratz Alumna (Ed.D Education in Leadership, 2020)
Gratz Faculty
Director of Recruitment, Enrollment Management, Thomas Jefferson University
Impostor Phenomenon describes individuals who believe their success is fraudulent. Have you ever achieved something and thought you somehow achieved it by accident or didn't deserve it, or weren’t qualified? Have you ever experienced self-doubt or fear that you won't live up to expectations? Do you attribute your success to external factors? Maybe you know someone in your personal or professional life who experiences these thoughts and feelings. Individuals experiencing impostor phenomenon believe that they may not be talented enough to achieve success despite the fact that they are often highly qualified intelligent individuals. This presentation covers the origins, beliefs, and examples of Impostor Phenomenon. Learn tools for overcoming impostor feelings to remove barriers to success.
2:30 pm
Treasures of the Tuttleman Library and the Birth of Modern Hebrew
Gratz Faculty
Program Director, Jewish Studies
Dr. Davis will share Hebrew books that are "treasures" of the Gratz Tuttleman Library, his personal favorites, and discuss the revival of Hebrew as a modern language.
3:30 pm
A First Look at the Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection
Gratz Faculty, Staff, and Doctoral Candidate
Director of Libraries, Assistant Professor
Gratz Faculty
Lead Editor, Rebecca Gratz Digital Archive
(Former) Lead Editor, Rebecca Gratz Digital Archive
Gratz College unveiled the website for the Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection in February 2023. In memory of Dianne Ashton, the collection is a powerful tool for historians of American Jewish history. Get a preview of the collection and learn from transcription experts about the process of making a digital collection both accessible and usable. "
4:00 pm
Discovering the writings and work of Dr. Lena Allen-Shore: educator, philosopher, songwriter, humanist, poet, scholar, and Holocaust survivor.
Jacques J.M. Shore, C.M. Partner, Gowling WLG
Author, Sleep, My Baby
Jacques J.M. Shore, C.M. will present a brief history of his mother's extraordinary life and his family’s partnership with Gratz College to establish the Dr. Lena Allen-Shore Digital Collection. The collection, which includes 350 unique letters and thousands of pages of her literary and academic work, offers a unique window into Holocaust Studies from an interdisciplinary framework that motivated Dr. Shore to establish the Center for Advancement of Human Potential in partnership with Gratz College many decades ago.
5:00 pm
The Holocaust: The Genocide With its Own Name
Gratz Alumnus (Ph.D. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2022)
Director of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
To prepare his students for mass atrocity circumstances and that they may encounter in future military assignments, Professor Cotter examines National Socialist policies and procedures used to implement the Final Solution and patterns of “othering.” This session, which is part I of the course, examines the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish extremism in Germany from the turn of the century to the rise of the National Socialist state and its leader, Adolf Hitler.
To prepare his students for mass atrocity circumstances and that they may encounter in future military assignments, Professor Cotter presents the Holocaust as the archetype of state-directed and resourced mass murder and the most notorious of the 20th Century genocides. The course is presented in two parts. In this second part, Cotter examines Operation Barbarossa during the period from 1941 through the end of the Second World War, one of unchecked mass murder of European Jews.
6:30 pm
The Righteous Among the Nations
Gratz Faculty
Leonard and Ethel Landau Professor of Rabbinics
Academic Advisor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program
The Righteous Among the Nations is the title of honor given by the state of Israel to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. This mini-course takes a look at how this honor was created, what motivates people to be rescuers, and discusses several of the personal stories of the Righteous Among the Nations.
7:30 pm
The Professor & The Poet
Gratz Alumnus (Ed.D Education in Leadership, 2020) and Faculty
Assistant Professor of Education Director of M.Ed & M.S in Teaching Practice Programs
In 1917, Anzia Yezierska (not yet a famous writer) marched into the Columbia University office of professor John Dewey (already famous) asking for help getting a job as a teacher. What followed was an intense year-long association, marking her future fiction and revealing a different side to the reserved New England intellectual. This presentation takes you from NYC's Lower East Side to Philadelphia's Port Richmond neighbor, to Hollywood, California, to tell you the brief story of this unusual affair. Philip Moore is a faculty member at Gratz and is writing a biography of Dewey to be published by Routledge.
8:00 pm
Commitment! How to Get it AND Keep it!
Gratz Faculty
Gratz Doctoral Candidate
Assistant Professor of Education
Director, M.S., Camp Administration and Leadership
It's all about the money and doing as little as possible, isn't it? Are your staff "quiet quitting" after week 1? How can you change the mindset of your staff leading up to staff orientation and into the first week of summer and get the commitment you need? How can we draw for them, prior to the job, what it takes to do the job - the energy, the caring, and responsibility? We get that many staff do not see the full spectrum of camp and how it can change them to be better people. Our inspiring staff orientation videos, fancy handouts, and team-building games just DO NOT work anymore. What are new and innovative steps to a successful staff for 2023 and how can you get your leadership team (who in many ways are not much different) to be the motivators of success for your overall team?