Join us for the closing night of the Mayerson JCC Jewish and Israeli Film Festival at historic Union Terminal. The evening features the film, Farewell Mister Haffmann. Ticket includes a closing night dessert reception. Watch trailers, buy tickets, and explore the full festival lineup at MayersonJCC.org/Film
Join the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, the Mayerson Jewish Community Center, and Jewish Family Service for the 2024 Yom HaShoah Commemoration. Stand with us as we remember and mourn the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and honor the survivors.
Our featured speaker is James E. Young, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English and Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he has taught since 1988. He is also Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst.
More than 20,000 European Jews survived the Holocaust by escaping to Shanghai. Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania, helped thousands flee. For his brave efforts, Sugihara has earned the titles of “Japanese Schindler” and Righteous Among the Nations. Sonia Milrod’s father, Jerry, was one of the many people who Sugihara’s actions helped save.
Join us at Union Terminal on Monday, May 6, 7 p.m. for a once-in-a-lifetime moment as Sonia and Chihiro Sugihara, Chiune’s grandson, meet for the very first time. This moving, monumental conversation will reveal in detail how far and wide the ripple effects of being an upstander can reach.
Join us for Museum Mindfulness, a yoga event in the iconic rotunda at Union Terminal followed by drinks, appetizers, and insightful conversations with mindfulness experts. Learn how to tap into the science of well-being to become your best self and discover your strengths as an upstander. Reserve your spot now. Please Note: Bring your own yoga mat. All participants will be required to sign a waiver at registration.
Museum Mindfulness is part of the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center’s Cohen Family Upstander Month, an inspiring month of events featuring family activities and an awards ceremony headlined by actress Debra Messing at historic Union Terminal. The month celebrates and uplifts the change makers in our community.
Generously supported by the Cohen Family, the month of events at Union Terminal includes:
The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center was created to carry on the stories and lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history. Rooted in this educational mission is a vision to create an entire community of upstanders — high-minded, everyday heroes who act because they refuse to be bystanders. The Cohen Family Cincinnati Upstander Month is presented by Duke Energy, the Mayerson Family Foundation, and Procter & Gamble.
Join the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law in partnership with the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center for the Nancy & David Wolf Lectureship: An Evening with Erwin Chemerinsky.
The lectureship will be hosted at historic Union Terminal in Reakirt Auditorium on September 19 at 5:30 p.m. Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science. Before that he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science.
Chemerinksy will present on his work followed by a conversation with Jackie Congedo and Professor Jack Harrison, the David and Nancy Wolf Chair in Ethics and Professional Identity at Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law. The David and Nancy Wolf Program in Ethics and Professional Identity was established at Chase College of Law in 2022 to enhance instruction and programming for tomorrow’s leaders and change makers.
4:30-5:30 p.m.: the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center’s award-winning museum will be open for anyone who wants to come early and tour
5:30-6:30 p.m.: Lecture by Chemerinsky and Q&A with Jack Harrison and Jackie Congedo in Reakirt Auditorium
6:30-7:30 p.m.: Reception in historic Rotunda with music, food, and drinks
Please note: CLE credits will be made available.
More about the Speaker
Erwin Chemerinsky is the author of twelve books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are, The Religion Clauses: the Case for Separating Church and State (with Howard Gillman) (Oxford University Press 2020) and We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (Picador Macmillan 2018).
He also is the author of more than 250 law review articles. He is a contributing writer for the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times, and writes a regular column for the Sacramento Bee, the ABA Journal and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.
In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States.
