Category Archives: Events

The Past as Prologue: Jewish Genealogy Looks to the Future

May 2013Charleston SC Panel: Our Families, Our Selves –members of families featured inFamily History Roadshow. What their lineage means to them.Click Here to hear “Our Families, Our Selves” Family History RoadshowA Look Through the Archival Window at the Worldof Southern Jews, Then and Now For more information on this meeting, Click Here. Photos taken by Max B. […]

Congregation Beth Israel 100th Anniversary

November 2012 Florence, SC A History of the Jewish Comunity in Florence Pee Dee Pioneers “South of the Border and the  Legend of Alan Schafer” A History of the Jewish Comunity in Florence  Presenter Dr. Alexander Cohen Stories of the Pee Dee Darlington: Alexander H. Cohen, MD Friedman Pamplico: Harold Kornblut Leonard Cohen WWII: Donna […]

To Heal the World – Jewish South Carolinians in Public Service

May 2012 Charleston SC Opening Remarks History of the Jews in South Carolinaby Robert Rosen and Judge Richard GergelClick on History of Jews in SC to hear their talk with an introduction by Rachel Gordin Barnett. Keynote SpeakerHollace Ava WeinerFighting the Philistines: Southern Jews in High Places Women in Public OfficeModerator: Dale RosengartenPanelists: Susan Alion Brill,Dyan Cohen, Belinda Gergel  The Next […]

Joint Meeting with Southern Jewish Historical Society Sights, Sounds, and Stories of the Jewish South

October 2011Columbia, SC Trip to Sumter, SCTemple Sinai-Talk and Tour ofSanctuary and Stained Glass Windows Sumter County Museum andJewish Collections Home and Garden Tourled by Dr. Wendell and Katie Levi Mark BaumanPresenting the 2011 Book Awards Honarable MentionLeonard RogoffDown Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina Best BookBryan E. Stone The Chosen Folks: Jews on the […]

Jews, Slavery, and the Civil War

May 24-26, 2011 Charleston, SC Program made possible by: The Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, directed by the Association of Jewish Studies The College of Charleston Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program  Judaism at War Leonard Greenspoon (Creighton University)  “The Bible Says It’s So….But, It Ain’t Necessarily So”  Leonard Rogoff (Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina)  “Who is True […]

90th Anniversary Adath Yeshurun Synagogue

March 11-12, 2011Aiken, SC Photos taken by Jacob Ellis of Jacob Goss Photography and Nelson Danish

Meeting at B’Nai Israel

November 2010Anderson, SC Click Here to see Pictures of all the Windows Panel Discussion on Jewish Life in the Upstate For More information on this meeting, Click Here. Pictures Taken by Max Hellman and Ben Turetzky

Meeting with Temple Oseh Shalom

May 2010Bluffton, SC Click Here to read about Oseh Shalom For more information on this meeting,  Click Here  Pictures taken by Jeri Perlmutter and Max B. Hellman

25th Anniversary of the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at College of Charleston

October 23-25, 2009Charleton, SC For more information on this meeting Click Here.

Hobcaw Barony May 2009

May, 2009Georgetown, SC For more information on this meeting, Click Here.