NEVER AGAIN IS NOW Podcast

Relationships between Blacks and Jews in the U.S. have varied depending on the era. Jewish leaders marched side by side with Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights in the 1960s. What about today, though, when Black Lives Matter proponents may target Jews as “white oppressors”? In this episode our guest  Kenry Allan Hutchinson II , a Black Jew, shares with us his perspective. 

Canadian author and human rights advocate Yasmine Mohammed -- founder of  www. FreeHeartsFreeMinds.com  -- discusses the beloved Gaza homeland of her father and its oppression by Hamas. She also discusses that many Muslims are taught to hate Jews and how she found the courage to overcome this indoctrination. 

Yael Lerman, Founding Director of the StandWithUs.com Saidoff Legal Department, discusses the free legal resources offered for confronting antisemitism and anti-Israel activity.

Rabbi Joshua Kalev discusses the verbal anti-Jewish attacks on four 11-year-old girls in a Manhattan Beach, California middle school. He also discusses the school's inadequate response to the attacks.

On Day 24 Dr. Michael Berenbaum returns for an up-to-the-minute update on Hamas’ war against Israel.

Jacob Howland, Provost and Director of the Intellectual Foundations Program at the University of Austin , discusses what is happening in top American universities including Harvard after Hamas' brutal attack on Israel.

Scholar Wolf Gruner talks about his new book RESISTERS: HOW ORDINARY JEWS FOUGHT PERSECUTION IN HITLER'S GERMANY. He upends the common notion of passive Jews in Hitler's Germany and expands the concept of resistance. He is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and a professor of history at the University of Southern California, where he is also the founding director of the USC Dornsif...

University of Pennsylvania senior Eyal Yakoby discusses the antisemitic speakers at the recent Penn Palestinian literature festival. He also shares some of the reactions on campus since Hamas brutally attacked Israel. For a resource guide on the war, see www.millermosaicllc.com/guest-post-israel-at-war-resource-guide/

On Day 3 -- scholars Rabbi Michael Berenbaum and Rick Richman discuss how this war on Israel impacts us emotionally, how it could happen, and what should be done. This attack  was an unprovoked savage and murderous attack on Israel's citizens including grandmothers and babies. 

Andrew Goretsky, regional director of ADL Philadelphia, and Jason Holtzman, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia , discuss their online training program to help parents address antisemitic incidents at their children's schools.

Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer Daniel Libeskind shares his deep and inspiring philosophy of monuments in public spaces including the Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names in Amsterdam. 

Scholars Michael Berenbaum and Rick Richman discuss the Yom Kippur War in 1973 -- 50 years ago -- and what it means today. And for those of you who have seen the recent film GOLDA, this is an especially insightful podcast.

Laura Ellsworth and Charles Moellenberg of EradicateHateSummit.org discuss how this project grew out of an immediate response in real time to the massacre. The third annual summit will be held Sept. 27-29, 2023, in Pittsburgh and is open to the public.

John Pollick, descendant of victims of the mass shootings by the Nazis in Eastern Europe, discusses this little-known Holocaust history and the motivation for his short documentary. You can watch his documentary "Beyond Babi Yar" at https://vimeo.com/837062110 . A map of the "Holocaust by Bullets" can be viewed at http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/#map/ and Yad Vashem&...

High school digital media instructor Brian Erlich discusses his successful summer internship program that engaged non-Jewish students in learning and speaking up about antisemitism by having them make short documentaries featuring antisemitism activists.

Stacy Gallin, founding director of  https://ferenczinstitute.org/ , talks about her program "Athletes Against Antisemitism and Discrimination" that trains sports teams and student athletes on how to use their platforms to speak up  against antisemitism. She also tells about the college student athletes' trip to Auschwitz in 2018 that spawned this innovative program.

Jerusalem-based journalist Benjamin Weinthal analyzes the work against antisemitism done by governments and discusses what is missing in this work, especially against antisemitism sponsored by Iran.

Brooke Goldstein , executive director of The Lawfare Project, discusses for our 100th podcast that now is the time Jews should start a civil rights movement like BlackLivesMatter to end Jew hatred. She also discusses her upcoming book "End Jew Hatred: A Manual for Mobilization."

Rabbi Erez Sherman of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles discusses the synagogue's Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship created to engage rabbinical students across the religious spectrum in learning about Zionism.

Award-winning journalist Ron Kampeas of www.jta.org discusses the recently released White House National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism and how this first-time strategy came about.

Avi D. Gordon, executive director of Alums for Campus Fairness ( campusfairness.org ), speaks about the unified actions of college alums to push back against antisemitism on college campuses.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin called out antisemitism in the feminist movement in a 1982 article in Ms. magazine. She is still calling out hatred of Jews today and distinguishing it from legitimate criticism of Israel.

Alex Benjamin of the European Jewish Association discusses how he educates European governments on Jewish interests and how to take on antisemitism.

Adam Glass, executive producer/co-showrunner of the CBS series THE EQUALIZER, talks about how he has used his individual platform to educate about antisemitism and how we can use our own individual platforms.

Check out why and how Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev and his life partner Julie Gray create TikTok videos to educate about the Holocaust and to counter antisemitism at  https://www.tiktok.com/@thetrueadventures