Jewish Museum and Cultural Center presents: A Closer Look at Charlottesville

by | Jul 26, 2021 | What’s Happening

Originally published in the February 22, 2021 issue.

Sunday, February 28, 3 pm, Zoom

The lecture, A Closer Look at Charlottesville, will be live-streamed via Zoom by The Jewish Museum and Cultural Center.

Three years ago, white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Va. chanting neo-Nazi slogans and rallying just outside of Charlottesville’s only synagogue.

Join filmmaker Alexandra Kauffman Horowitz and Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin for a screening and discussion of the film, Reawakening, for this program.

Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin is the former rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville. Alexandra Kauffman Horowitz is a former senior producer at CNN International.