Annual Education Symposium

Join UJA/JCC Greenwich for the Annual Women's Education Symposium, featuring keynote speaker Jacob Baime (Executive Director, Israel on Campus Coaltion), and authors Jennifer Keishin Armstrong & Marlene Trestman.

Wednesday, March 8, 9:15 - noon
Location: Tomes Higgins House, 216 E. Putnam Ave.Greenwich
Tickets: $60 in advance, $72 at the door. Register at jccgreenwich.org, 203-552-1818

Jacob Baime, Executive Director of Israel On Campus Coalition, is headed to town. An expert on pro-Israel campus affairs, the former AIPAC National Field Director will keynote this year’s Education Symposium on Wednesday, March 8 beginning at 9:45am.

His talk, entitled “Team of Teams: Working Together to Defeat the AntiIsrael Movement on College Campuses,” will explore strategies to empower our students to stand up for Israel, and help make an impact on U.S.-Israel relations for the future. “For anyone following the rise of anti-Israel activity at universities around the nation and the world, this is a conversation that’s not to be missed,” according to Symposium co-chair Christine Toback.

Baime’s keynote will be preceded by a buffet breakfast beginning at 9:15 am, and breakout sessions will take place from 11 am to noon. Participants are invited to sign up for the breakout topic of their choice. Pop culture mavens may gravitate to “Seinfeldia: How a Show about Nothing Changed Everything,” with bestselling author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. The acclaimed TV historian and entertainment writer will take participants behind the scenes of the iconic NBC sitcom that turned New York Jewish culture into a national phenomenon.

For fans of social biography and legal courage, there’s Marlene Tresman’s session, “Before There Was a ‘Notorious RBG,’ There Was an ‘Audacious Bessie M.’” Here Tresman will discuss her book Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin. Those about to discover this pioneering lawmaker will wonder how her justice work at Nuremberg, her founding of NOW, and her groundbreaking hand in the Equal Pay Act, among other remarkable achievements, have not (yet) made her a household name. “The Annual Education Symposium brings transformative adult Jewish learning to Greenwich, and this year’s program delivers another variation of that mandate,” said Honorary Chair Joan Mann.

Jointly sponsored by JCC Greenwich and UJA Greenwich Women’s Philanthropy, in collaboration with the Jewish Book Council, the Symposium will take place at the Tomes-Higgins House, 216 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich. Tickets are $60 if purchased in advance, and $72 at the door. Sponsorship opportunities (and a free book) are also available, beginning at $136. Newcomers to the Greenwich community within the past 12 months are invited to attend as our guest. Please call 203-552-1818 to let us know you’ll be joining us.