Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on January 14, 2021

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio -- The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage reopens to the public Monday, Jan. 18, with a celebration to honor the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There will be all-day programs, free admission and virtual activities.

Timed tickets are available from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to visit the museum in person and tour its core collections free of charge. Visitors can explore Judaica and ritual objects and observe the Jewish-American immigrant experience in separate galleries. They also can take a guided virtual tour of the Jim Crow Museum in Michigan.

David Pilgrim, founder of the Jim Crow Museum of racist memorabilia at Michigans Ferris State University will take participants on a free virtual tour of the Jim Crow Museum before his lecture. Participants can ask him questions from 3 to 4:30 p.m. via Zoom. The museum uses these objects to teach tolerance and social justice.

A one-hour workshop from 11 a.m. to noon for students in grades six to 12 provides tips on writing a personal essay that tells a powerful story for future college applications or for entering the Maltz Museums annual Stop the Hate essay contest.

Families can participate online from 1 to 2 p.m. with Punch McHamm of BravoNation reading from the book As Good as Anybody, about the friendship of King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. A question-and-answer session will follow before Talespinner Childrens Theater presents an improv activity for family members of all ages and backgrounds.

All activities are free, with advance registration through maltzmuseum.org.

Stream live theater: Add a bit of dark comedy to your life Jan. 16 and 17, as Chagrin Valley Little Theatre streams its 2015 River Street Playhouse production of The Norwegians by playwright C. Denby.

The plot has things going haywire after two spurned Southern women living in Minnesota hatch a plan to get even with their exes. Contact cvlt.org for tickets to the online show.

Just what Dr. Seuss ordered: Could you use a reason to smile about now? Explore the life and art of childrens author Theodor Seuss Geisel at 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, via Zoom.

Art historian Felicia Zavarella Stadelman presents a look at Geisels artistic vision and humor that linked his political cartoons, advertisements, characters and 44 childrens books.

Register for the free program by Jan. 18 to receive the Zoom link. Contact parksynagogue.org or epetler@parksyn.org.

Online help for parents: Connecting for Kids is offering a series of virtual programs this month to help parents deal with tricky health and education issues, and to navigate treatment and outcomes.

A two-day workshop, from 1 to 2 p.m. Jan. 30 and Feb. 6, focuses on finding reliable information and problem-solving while overcoming racial and gender biases. In partnership with Euclid Public Library, it will provide a safe space for Black American parents of children in kindergarten through grade 12 to talk about challenge and work on solutions. Participants will receive an advocacy kit with course materials.

Healing and institutional racism are the subject of a four-week interactive workshop from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20, Jan. 27, Feb. 3 and Feb. 10. Designed to be a safe space for parents and caregivers of infants and children through 12 years old, it will help to identify and stop patterns of trauma survival and develop coping skills. Participants will receive a self-care kit with course materials that can be picked up at your local library branch.

To see the programs offered by the organization and to register for any of them, contact connectingforkids.org.

Fight the blues and listen to music: If the pandemic and missed holiday plans added to your post-holiday blues, Connecting for Kids invites you to an online interactive chat from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, to meet other families, find encouragement and use anticipation to cope with stress.

Presented in partnership with Westlake Porter Public Library, it is a free program and attendees can earn a free journal.

Also, adults can learn to use music for coping with the pandemic and caring for children from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21. Connect with other families online, listen to live music and access your creative side through songwriting. Contact connectingforkids.org.

Building inclusion in business: Kent State Universitys Academic Center and the Twinsburg and Nordonia Hills chambers of commerce are offering a Zoom workshop from noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 21 on understanding LGBTQ and barriers in the workplace.

Faculty member Mahli Xuan Mechenbier will hold a conversation about progress, the impact of gender ID in the the workplace, preferred terminology and definitions and resources. Register at amurfell@kent.edu or through one of the chamber organizations.

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