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Community Safety and Self Defense: Krav Maga Core Fundamentals
The ROCAA/ROC Strong Krav Maga classes are designed to teach participants basic skills on how to assess, avoid and remove themselves from dangerous situations.
Participants will also learn self-defense techniques so that action can be taken in the event a threat of violence that cannot be avoided occurs.
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The Blue Light Project
Show your support for the Rochester Jewish community by shining a blue light outside your home or business.
Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Anti-Israel: What's the Difference? (February 2022)
A conversation with Jewish thought leader Ben M. Freeman. Ben is a gay, Jewish author, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion specialist and internationally renown educator focusing on Jewish identity and combating antisemitism and raising awareness about the Holocaust. He is author of Jewish Pride.
The facilitated discussion with Ben will include:
The implications of recent Amnesty International UK report
How antisemitic conspiracies led to Colleyville, TX
The harm of disinformation and lack of education are dangerous (e.g. recent Whoopi Goldberg statements)
Israel and the Palestinians Through the Lens of a Palestinian Human Rights Activist with Bassem Eid (October 2021)
Bassem Eid is a Jerusalem-based political analyst, human rights pioneer and expert commentator in Arab and Palestinian affairs. Eid was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in East Jerusalem, whose place of residence became the United Nations Refugee Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camp of Shuafat. He spent the first 33 years of his life in Shuafat. He rose to prominence during the first Intifada, the Palestinian uprising and was a senior field researcher for B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. In 1996, he founded the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. In 2016, Eid assumed the role of chairman of the Center for Near East Policy Research.
