As the population of Holocaust survivors declines and antisemitism across the globe escalates, The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust is on the front lines working to raise awareness of the Holocaust through powerful and educational public programming that addresses the history of the Holocaust, the singular most catastrophic genocide in history, and its consequences including the challenges of contemporary antisemitism.
The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust is a program of the Gayle and Paul Gross Family Foundation.
Event Schedule
Alarming Escalation of European Antisemitism: The EU Survey Results
November 10, 2019
Dr. Claudia Dunlea
Mandel JCC, Palm Beach Gardens
Dr. Claudia Dunlea is Senior Instructor of History at Florida Atlantic University, and she is the author of a renowned book that investigates the origins of a supranational European foreign policy in the 1950s.
Jewish Survival in Our Battle Over Civilization
November 24, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Indian Spring Country Club, Boynton Beach
Melanie Phillips is an author, broadcaster and journalist whose weekly column appears in The Times of London; it also has been published in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail.
Lessons of the Holocaust Applied to Contemporary Arab-Israeli Issues and Rising Antisemitism
December 1, 2019
Morton A. Klein
Mandel JCC, Palm Beach Gardens
Morton A. Klein is National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the U.S., and a member of the National Council of AIPAC.
A Dark Alliance Resurfaces: Nazis and Islamist Supremacism
December 15, 2019
Richard Green and Shireen Qudosi
Temple Beth El, West Palm Beach
Richard Green is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Clarion Project. Shireen Qudosi is The Clarion Project’s National Correspondent and is involved with leading its Preventing Violent Extremism program.
The Chasm of Corporate Complicity and the Holocaust: Ford, GM, IBM, Carnegie and Rockefeller
January 12, 2020
Edwin Black
Indian Spring Country Club, Boynton Beach
Edwin Black is an award-winning, international investigative author. He has written 200 editions in 20 languages in 190 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in the United States, Israel and Europe.
Babi Yar: Holocaust by Bullets
January 26, 2020
Dr. Irving Berkowitz
Indian Spring Country Club, Boynton Beach 11AM
The son of Holocaust survivors, Dr. Irving Berkowitz is a widely respected scholar and public speaker on the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism.
The Battle for the Jewish Future: Europe, America and Israel
February 9, 2020
Benjamin Anthony
Fountains Country Club, Lake Worth, Florida
Benjamin Anthony is the founder of Our Soldiers Speak, a not-for-profit NGO that provides briefings and analyses on the realities and challenges faced by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in asymmetrical combat situations.
The Largest Pro-Israel Movement in America: Christian Zionists and Why Jews Should Trust Them
February 23, 2020
Pastor Victor L. Styrsky
Temple Beth El, West Palm Beach
Victor L. Styrsky has been a pastor, music director and pro-Israel activist for more than 35 years. He is the…
Archives of the Disappeared: Photography and the Shame of Memory
March 15, 2020
Tim B. Wride
Indian Spring Country Club, Boynton Beach
Tim B. Wride is the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum of Art. Prior…
The Antisemitic Impact of Islamic Funding into American Universities and Nonprofits
March 22, 2020
Gregg Roman
Fountains Country Club, Lake Worth, Florida
Gregg Roman is the Director of the Middle East Form (MEF). Before joining MEF, he was Director of the Community Relations Council for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.
Who Will Write Our History
April 5, 2020
Roberta Grossman
Indian Spring Country Club, Boynton Beach
An award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice, Roberta Grossman has written, directed, and produced more than 40 hours of film and television – telling stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the name of justice.