Simon Wiesenthal Center Midwest Region & William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum

Date:
Monday, November 4, 2019
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location:
Atlanta
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
1440 Spring St NW
Atlanta, GA 30309
United States

invite you to a panel discussion on:

The Threats of Modern Anti-Semitism


Monday, November 4, 2019
7:00 - 8:30pm
at
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
1440 Spring St NW
Atlanta, GA 30309

Panelists:

  • PATRICK D. JOHN is a black Christian attorney living and working in Chicago, IL. He is a member of Chicago’s Jewish Decalogue Society of Lawyers and serves on its anti-Semitism committee. He grew up for several years in Brooklyn NY and completed his undergraduate education at the CIty College of NY in Harlem, where he majored in Urban Legal Studies and minored in Black Studies. Patrick is originally from Guyana, South America a place of great religious diversity.
  • SAM OLENS is a counsel in the Public Policy practice at Dentons. He is the former president of Kennesaw State University and was twice elected attorney general of Georgia. In this role he worked to strengthen the penalties for and protect the victims of sex trafficking, stem the epidemic of prescription drug abuse and strengthen Georgia’s Sunshine laws. Prior to being elected attorney general, Sam was chairman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners. Following 18 years of elected office, Sam is working to promote greater tolerance and non-discrimination in our communities.
  • MARK WEITZMAN is the Director of Government Affairs and chief representative to the Simon Wiesenthal Center to the United Nations in New York. He has been called “the architect” of the internationally recognized Working Definition of Antisemitism and is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

Panel discussion led by MICHAEL A. MORRIS owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

Host committee:

Phyllis Fraley                    
Kevin King Jacqueline Morris
Steve Fraley Rufus Montgomery                     
Lynn Oves
Rena Kahn Belinda Morris Arlene Samuels
 

Thank you to our sponsors:

Michael and Andrea Leven Foundation         
The Marcus Foundation           
The Morris Family Foundation

 

Monday, November 4, 2019 

7:00 - 8:30pm
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
1440 Spring St NW Atlanta, GA 30309

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For more information: 312.981.0105 or swcmidwest@wiesenthal.com

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