Interfaith Cincinnati

JEWISH CINCINNATI: A TAPESTRY OF ART AND HISTORY (Public Lecture)
2023-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Skirball Museum
Against the backdrop of the exhibition Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic Record by J. Miles Wolf, enjoy an illustrated lecture by Skirball Museum director and exhibition curator Abby Schwartz about Cincinnati’s rich legacy of Jewish art and history. Visit the exhibition following the lecture with Schwartz and photographer J. Miles Wolf.
In person and on Livestream
Register HERE.

Workshop: How to Start Mental Health Ministry (2 days/locations options)
2023-01-17 08:00 - 2023-01-18 17:00
On January 17th at Our Lady of Sorrows, Monroe, Ohio and January 18th St. Monica-St. George, Cincinnati, Ohio The Office for Persons with Disabilities will sponsor a workshop on how to start Mental Health Ministry in your parish hosted by Deacon Ed Schoener, President of The Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers.
Why Mental Health Ministry?
· 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year
· 1 in 20 U.S. adults experience serious mental illness each year
· 1 in 6 U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year
· 50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24
· Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-14
*National Alliance of Mental Illness

Learn how to serve and provide opportunities for individuals and families suffering with mental illness to grow in faith.
“Whoever suffers from mental illness always bears God’s image and likeness in themselves, as does every human being. In addition, they always have the inalienable right not only to be considered as an image of God and therefore as a person, but also to be treated as such.” (Pope John Paul II, International Conference for Health Care Workers, on Illnesses of the Human Mind, November 30, 1996.
Register by email: Lisa Averion
January 17th registration: Archdiocese of Cincinnati: Mental Health Ministry Workshop (signupgenius.com)
January 18

King Legacy Celebration (In-Person or Remote Options)
2023-01-16 08:00 - 17:00 | National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 E Freedom Way, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202

Book Launch (Hybrid): Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa
2023-01-12 09:30 - 11:00
We invite you to a hybrid book launch of Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Ebenezer Durojaye and Derek Powell (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), which explores the resilience of constitutional government in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting and comparing perspectives from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to global trends. Bringing together established and emerging African scholars from ten countries, this book looks at the impact that government emergency responses to the pandemic have on the functions of the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, as well as the protection of human rights. The book will be useful to researchers in constitutional law, academics, students, policy-makers, civil society groups, and international institutions.

Date: January 12, 2023
Time: 9:30-10.45 AM EST, 4:30- 5.45 PM SAST, 1:30 -2.45 PM GMT
Format:
Hybrid – Zoom
In-person – University of Dayton Human Rights Center, Keller Hall, Dayton, Ohio

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Tai Chi Class
2023-01-10 19:30 - 20:30, 2023-01-03 19:30 - 20:30
Tai Chi is the slow meditative Chinese martial art practiced to promote health, balance, mental calm and clarity. Come and join us to learn and practice this profound and wonderful art. No previous experience is necessary.

Ages: 14+
Session: Ongoing, meets year-round
Instructor: Uri Sella
Cost: Free; suggested donation of $5 per class
How to Register: Email classes@cliftonculturalarts.org with “Tai Chi” in the subject line.

New Year's Day Special Virtual Zen Practice
2023-01-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Special New Year’s Day 2-Hour Virtual Sit with Furnace Mountain Sangha (details and registration forthcoming)

Zen Meditation Practice (2 different times)
2023-01-01 07:15 - 09:00 | Cincinnati Zen Center, 3647 Eighth Street West, Cincinnati, 45205, United States
Regular In-person Practice, 7:15 am and 9 am

Holocaust Speaker Series: Josie Ziegler
2022-12-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, December 21st at 11:00 am via Zoom with Josie Ziegler.
Josie tells the stories of her grandparents’ journeys from the German towns of Cologne (Koln) and Landsberg am Lech to the USA. At 16 years old, Ellen (Josie’s grandmother) escaped in 1938 via the Kindertransport through the support of her parents. She was first sent to London to stay with her uncle and in 1939 took a Liberty ship to join her brother in NYC. She was able to keep in touch with her parents until 1940 when communications stopped, and she was never to hear from them again. Berthold (Josie’s grandfather), about age 23, was sent to the USA with his older brother in 1938 while his parents and two younger siblings stayed behind (they later came to the USA in 1939). In the summer of 2022, Josie traveled to Landsberg to visit the family’s former home, store, and town where her grandfather grew up. Josie recently moved to Cincinnati after graduating optometry school. She is a Third-Generation speaker who has been gathering research in an effort to retrace her grandparents’ experiences through Europe.
REGISTER HERE
Generously sponsored by Margaret and Michael Valentine and presented in partnership with the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.

2022 Winter Solstice Sunrise Celebration
2022-12-21 06:30 - 08:00 | Mount St. John Nature Preserve, 4435 E. Patterson Road, Dayton, OH, 45430
We will gather at 6:45 am OUTSIDE Sieben Hall. Indoor facilities will be open for those who need them.
We will observe the longest night of the year with prayers for world peace and a reflective candlelight procession through the woods of Mount St. John. A bonfire in the prairie at sunrise will welcome the Prince of Peace. Hot beverages and a light breakfast provided.
RSVP : 937/429-3582 or info@meec.center

Fifth Third Community Day!
2022-12-18 | National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 E Freedom Way, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202
The Freedom Center is excited to present the final Fifth Third community Day of 2022!
Bring your friends and family to the Freedom Center to enjoy free admission, moving exhibits and engaging programming all day.
*Free tickets can be reserved online HERE, but walkups are welcome.*

What do we know about the air we breathe?
2022-12-15 19:00 - 20:30
What do we know about the air we breathe?
The involvement of citizens in air pollution monitoring is essential to identifying and addressing environmental disparities in low-income neighborhoods.
Learn how community air monitoring can be a valuable tool to identify possible hot spots. New, relatively low-cost tools are now available to not only tell you about air quality but also to provide reliable data to use with decision makers, elected officials, and polluting entities, to achieve cleaner air and protect those most susceptible to pollution. These handheld tools can easily provide extensive data and pollution mapping, including sharing data online.
Marilyn Wall, a long time Sierra Club volunteer, will present information about an air monitoring program underway in our area and how Faith Communities Go Green can help engage in collecting data, talking to decision makers, protecting vulnerable people (children, elderly, those living with respiratory issues, etc.) from pollution, and making the environment safer for all of us. Marilyn has worked with communities in the greater Cincinnati area on air and water pollution for many years. Developing and assisting community-led projects has led to significant pollution reductions locally.
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Faith Communities Go Green partners with religious communities to create a more sustainable and equitable future for all by mobilizing their moral voice to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change.
To learn more and join Faith Communities Go Green, a Green Umbrella & EquaSion Collaboration, go to FCGG.org

Holocaust Speaker Series: Rabbi Eric Slaton
2022-12-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, December 14th at 11:00 am via Zoom with Rabbi Eric Slaton.
All of Rabbi Slaton’s family lived in Europe when the Nazis came to power, in Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, his parents, and grandparents lived in Vienna. After the Anschluss on November 11-13, things became very difficult for the Jews of Vienna. His mother’s father committed suicide when he heard the Nazis enter the apartment building. His mother and grandmother were able to travel to London, and his mother was fortunate to be allowed to come to America and live with relatives. She never spoke about her experiences before her early death.
His father was able to get a visa to come to England to study. Two weeks later, he received a visa to travel to Palestine. His parents chose to send him to England because he could get there sooner. His parents tried to escape over the Italian border but were sent back. Their apartment was near the foreign embassies, so they were not harassed as were Jews in other parts of the city. Finally, they were ordered to move because an Aryan woman wanted the apartment. They shared a small room with other families. They were later deported and sent to killing centers.
His father volunteered for the army and was sent to Italy to help with the interrogation of Austrian soldiers who fought for the Nazis. Upon his return, he entered the Northern Illinois of Optometry and was a classmate and friend of Dr. Albert Miller. His parents met in Chicago, married, moved to Minneapolis, and had two children. Upon his retirement, his father wrote extensively about his experiences. His father died 10 years ago.
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Generously sponsored by Margaret and Michael Valentine and presented in partnership with the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Preserving Your Family History through Storytelling: JCGC and Bespoken Live
2022-12-11 10:30 - 12:00 | American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, United States
Join Jewish Cemeteries and BespokenLive for Preserving Family History Through Storytelling. We will learn from and with Joey the best practices, interview tips, and recording techniques for capturing the precious stories each family has to share and that will bring color and life to the dates, names, and places of genealogy research.

Thank you to our partners at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives for hosting us, and to BespokenLive, EquaSion, Hamilton County Genealogical Society, Over the Rhine Museum, and the University of Cincinnati Department of Judaic Studies. Kuhn Family photo courtesy of the American Jewish Archives.

LUNCH AND LEARN WITH J. MILES WOLF AND ABBY SCHWARTZ
2022-12-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Skirball Museum
Join photographer J. Miles Wolf and Skirball Museum director and exhibition curator Abby Schwartz for an informal light lunch and gallery walk and talk of Jewish Cincinnati: A Photographic Record by J. Miles Wolf.
RSVP Required. Click HERE to RSVP.

Movie Screening: In Search of My Sister
2022-12-07 18:00 - 20:30 | National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 E Freedom Way, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202
Follow Rushan Abbas on her quest to find her sister, one of the millions of Uyghurs missing in their own land in one of the world’s ongoing genocides.
Abbas, Uyghur leader Abdulhakim Idris and film director and producer Jawad Mir for a discussion following the film.
The screening and discussion is presented in partnership with the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati and Ohioans in Solidarity with the Uyghur people.
*This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required*
Reserve your tickets here

Holocaust Speaker Series: Ruth Barnett
2022-12-07 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11:00 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join us on Wednesday, December 7, at 11:00 am via Zoom with Ruth Barnett.
Ruth tells the moving story of her mother, Irene Levin, who was born Josepha Weil in 1927. Josepha was a child of a large, prosperous, secular family in the Sudetenland, a German corridor of western Czechoslovakia. Josepha was just over eleven years old when her father died, and Hitler walked through the Sudetenland. By December 1941, Josepha, her mother, Irena, and stepfather, Georg, were deported to Terezin, where they spent over two years. Deportation to Auschwitz and slave labor at a sub-camp called Christianstadt followed.
In January 1945, with the Russians advancing, Josepha and her mother were forced on a Death March, which would span 200 miles in ice and snow. Then they were loaded into a cattle car to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Irena was carried to her death upon arrival. The British liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. After several months of recovery from typhus, Josepha returned to Prague. Only Georg and one cousin returned.
In 1947, Josepha immigrated to America and adopted her mother’s name, Irene. In 1949, Irene met and married her husband, Joe Levin, and raised three children. In 2017, as Ruth just retired from a career as a Quality Assurance professional, her father died. Ruth brought Irene to live in Mason. It was this time with her mother that got Ruth actively involved with her mother’s photos, memoirs, and sharing this important story of survival. It is Ruth’s belief that in this time of Holocaust denial and politicization, it is up to the generation of survivor children to assume the mantle of sharing these firsthand accounts of the realities of hate.
REGISTER HERE
Generously sponsored by Margaret and Michael Valentine and presented in partnership with the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Know Your Neighbor (Tour)
2022-12-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
We would like to welcome our guests for the open house tour. Please join us at 1:00 p.m. for a brief tour on
Saturdays – 2022
Dec 3rd
Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati (513) 755-3280 | 8092 Plantation Drive West Chester Ohio 45060| www.icgc.us # Please RSVP with # of guests attending at tours@icgc.us https://www.eventbrite.com/e/know-your-neighbor-tickets-157792735319
Deadline for RSVP is Friday a week before the event. Please follow the guidelines of CDC for the COVID

Buddha's Enlightenment Day: In-person Retreat
2022-12-03 08:00 - 20:00 | Cincinnati Zen Center, 3647 Eighth Street West, Cincinnati, 45205, United States
The Cincinnati Zen Center will be celebrating Buddha’s Enlightenment Day with a day-long, in-person retreat with guest teacher Yong Song Soen-sa.
Register HERE.
