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Presentation on the IRC (International Rescue Committee) by JoAnn & Mike Fishbein
The Fishbeins discuss the IRC's work helping refugees in the U.S. and oversees and daughter Emily's work for IRC with Rohingya in Burma
Talk on the International Rescue Committee by Falmouth Residents Mike and JoAnn Fishbein
Friday, March 11 at 7:50 P.M., following an abbreviated Shabbat Service at 7:30 P.M.
Falmouth Jewish Congregation, Blanche & Joel D. Seifer Community Center, 7 Hatchville Road, E. Falmouth. www.falmouthjewish.org. Tel. 508-540-0602
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Members of the community are invited to a presentation and discussion led by Falmouth residents Mike and JoAnn Fishbein on the International Rescue Committee and the work it does in disaster relief and refugee assistance at home and abroad. The IRC was initially formed by Albert Einstein in hopes of establishing a vehicle for Jews to escape Nazi occupied Europe. It has since grown into the largest refugee relief program in the world. Mike and JoAnn recently returned from a trip to Burma/Myanmar where they visited with their daughter Emily, who works with the IRC in Burma helping to manage the refugee situation affecting the minority Muslim (Rohingya) community that has been marginalized by the predominant Bhuddist population. Emily began her work with the IRC as an intern in the Washington office while a student at Georgetown University. After college she worked for the agency as a case manager with both refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S., in Salt Lake City, Baltimore and D.C. Learn more about the IRC at http://www.rescue.org/
The Fishbeins will be discussing the role the IRC plays in refugee assistance in general, as well as the work their daughter does through the IRC with the Muslim community in Burma. Please join us in what will surely be an educational and provocative discussion.
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.All are welcome to this public talk as well as the 20-minute service that precedes it. If attending only the talk, attendees should go straight to Speen Hall. The service will take place in the chapel in the same building.
The Falmouth Jewish Congregation Community Center is located at 7 Hatchville Road, East Falmouth. Facilities are handicap accessible and all are welcome at this Reform Jewish congregation serving the Upper Cape and beyond. For further information please call 508-540-0602 or visit www.falmouthjewish.org.
