Introduction by Nick Sasaki Noah Eckstein’s Harvard graduation speech begins with a line that sounds like the opening of a joke:A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew walk into a bar.But he is not inventing a joke.He is telling the story of his own family.His Christian grandmother, his Pakistani Muslim grandfather, and his Jewish grandfather were not symbolic … [Read more...] about Noah Eckstein’s Harvard Graduation Speech: Understand Without Agreeing
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A Train Near Magdeburg: Survivors & Gaza Children Speak
(Nick Sasaki steps forward into a quiet room, his voice calm, steady, and reverent.)Tonight, we gather across time, across tragedy, across what we think of as impossible divides.Before us are two Holocaust survivors — Ruth and David — who, as children, were torn from their families and placed on a train bound for death. In April 1945, they were liberated near … [Read more...] about A Train Near Magdeburg: Survivors & Gaza Children Speak
Jewish Museum Tour with Comedians & Thinkers: Identity & Hope
Stephen Fry: (Soft lighting. A museum corridor stretches behind him. Stephen Fry stands in frame, gentle smile, hands folded.)Ah. Welcome. Welcome, dear friends.Today, we embark on a journey not merely through a museum, but through the chambers of memory—some gilded with celebration, others scarred by silence. This is the Jewish Museum of New York—but … [Read more...] about Jewish Museum Tour with Comedians & Thinkers: Identity & Hope