UJA-JCC Greenwich Announce UJA-JCC Greenwich Presents: Annual Women’s Education Symposium

 UJA-JCC Greenwich Presents: Annual Women’s Education Symposium on Wednesday, March 27 – 9:15 am Breakfast | 9:45 Program

The 2019 Women’s Education Symposium is a celebration of life-long Jewish learning with these remarkable women and authors joining us at this year’s esteemed speakers:

Angela Himsel – A River Could Be a Tree: A Memoir

How does a woman who grew up in rural Indiana as a fundamentalist Christian end up a practicing Jew in Jew York? Angela's unlikely path from a doomsday childhood cult to a committed Jewish life winds through the major events of the 1970s and '80s with warmth, humor and a host of religious and philosophical insights.

Yvette Manessis Corporon - Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

Yvette's grandmother helped hide a Jewish family fleeing the Nazis on a small Greek island. Seventy years later, Yvette connected with their descendants in Israel. When her own family suffered a tragedy at the hands of a neo-Nazi, she mined the lessons from Holocaust survivors to help her cope. Then something beautiful happened.

Dawn Raffel – The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

Hear the bracing tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the savior of premature babies by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows, on Coney Island and in Atlantic City. How this turn-of-the-20th-century emigre transformed infant care against the grain of both the medical establishment and the vogue of eugenics is a true miracle of modern medicine.

Co-sponsored by the United Jewish Federation of Greater Stamford and the Jewish Book Council.

Co-chaired by Vivienne Braun and Kim Sands; Honorary Chair Joan Mann.

For more info., please visit www.ujajcc.org