Yom HaShoah Program at ICJA

Students observed Yom HaShoah today with prayer and an informative conversation between ICJA alumna Alison Pure-Slovin ‘75, Midwest Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Jeff Schoep, the former leader of America’s largest neo-Nazi organization. In a spirited, wide-ranging Q&A, students asked about antisemitism, repentance, the state of Neo-Nazism today, and cooperation between anti-Jewish groups. Everyone has the power to stop hatred, Mrs. Pure-Slovin noted, and urged students to do all they can to prevent prejudice, bullying, and hatred in their day to day lives. This program is sponsored in memory of Rabbi Shlomo Hirsch Koller, hy”d and his sister Etka Koller-Cykornik, hy”d, by Sharon and Seymour Gertz and the estate of Margalit bat Rav Shilem Gertz z”l .