{"id":14359,"date":"2012-06-19T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14359"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:04:21","slug":"wednesday-night-in-stoughton-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14359","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Night In Stoughton Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Ahavath Torah Congregation<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>1179 Central Street<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a title=\"Stoughton, Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.125,-71.1027777778&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=42.125,-71.1027777778 (Stoughton%2C%20Massachusetts)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Stoughton, MA<\/a> 02072<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>A<em><strong>h<\/strong>avath Torah Congregation\u2019s Hausman Memorial Speakers\u2019 Series Presents:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div>\n<div><em><strong>Combating <a title=\"Antisemitism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antisemitism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">anti-Semitism<\/a> on University <a title=\"Campus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campus\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Campuses<\/a> and Beyond<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Tammi Rossman-Benjamin<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"University of California, Santa Cruz\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-122.06&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=37.0,-122.06 (University%20of%20California%2C%20Santa%20Cruz)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">University of California Santa Cruz<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><strong>Wednesday June 20, 7:30 PM<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong>Tammi Rossman-Benjamin<\/strong>, a lecturer at the UC\/Santa Cruz, is changing the conditions throughout the <a title=\"University of California\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">UC system<\/a> almost single-handedly with her force of intellect and courage. She has written articles about academic <a title=\"Anti-Zionism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Zionism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">anti-Zionism<\/a> and anti-Semitism and lectured widely on these developments and on the growing threat to the safety of Jewish students on college campuses.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>In July 2010, she co-organized a 2-week scholarly workshop entitled \u201c<a title=\"Antisemitism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antisemitism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Contemporary Antisemitism<\/a> in <a title=\"Higher education\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higher_education\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Higher Education<\/a>\u201d at the <a title=\"United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8869924,-77.033021&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8869924,-77.033021 (United%20States%20Holocaust%20Memorial%20Museum)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a>\u2019s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in <a title=\"Washington, D.C.\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8951111111,-77.0366666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=38.8951111111,-77.0366666667 (Washington%2C%20D.C.)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Washington D.C.<\/a>, and with Kenneth Marcus, the workshop\u2019s other coorganizer, she is editing a book of scholarly articles on campus-based anti-Semitism.<\/li>\n<li>Along with Dr. Leila Beckwith, she is the co-founder of the AMCHA Initiative, a grass-roots advocacy coalition dedicated to protecting Jewish students on university campuses within California. She and Dr.Beckwith also recently co-founded the Investigative Taskforce on Campus Antisemitism, an organization whose mission is to investigate and report incidents of antisemitism that occur in institutions of <a title=\"Higher education in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higher_education_in_the_United_States\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">higher education in the United States<\/a>, to document their effect on students, faculty, and staff, and to offer recommendations for addressing the problem on each campus investigated.<\/li>\n<li>In 2009, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Office of Civil Rights, alleging a hostile environment for Jewish students on her campus, and in March 2011 a federal investigation of her complaint was launched and is still pending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>$10 suggested donation for each event<\/div>\n<div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Bring your electric bill and sign up for Just Energy by Momentis and come as our guest for that program.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>For further information email <a href=\"mailto:office@atorah.org\">office@atorah.org<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=c3ffb39c-1219-486c-b2ea-abc8424f56e8\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahavath Torah Congregation 1179 Central Street Stoughton, MA 02072 \u00a0Ahavath Torah Congregation\u2019s Hausman Memorial Speakers\u2019 Series Presents: \u00a0 Combating anti-Semitism on University Campuses and Beyond \u00a0 Tammi Rossman-Benjamin University of California Santa Cruz Wednesday June 20, 7:30 PM Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14359\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3278,327,570,3276,3277],"class_list":["post-14359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-zionism","tag-antisemitism","tag-stoughton-massachusetts","tag-tammi-rossman-benjamin","tag-university-of-california-santa-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14360,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions\/14360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}