Program areas at Justus and Karin Rosenberg Foundation - Ny
The Foundation continued its program to support students who accepted unpaid or low-paying internships with an organization whose work is associated with the Foundation's mission. Working jointly and in collaboration with the bard college human reights project. The Foundation provided support to four bard college through this program in 2018, and the program's executive director had significant involvement as contemplated by 26 cfr 53.4942(b)-1(b)(2)(ii)(b). In this program by (i) helping students identify and secure placements at appropriate ngos, (ii) meeting and regularly corresponding, via email and phone, with the students individually to share his knowledge of relevant issues and to provide contacts in the field in order to prepare each student for his or her internship; (iii) organizing and leading a two-day text study with the interns about hate, (iv) connecting the students to each other by setting up a private google group so the students could share their experiences and con
The foundations's executive director provided assistance to other organizations and individuals on issues relating to the Foundation's mission, including: (i)the committee on the judiciary of the united states house of representatives (tesimony); (ii)faculty, administrators and students regarding constructive ways to respond to hatred and antisemitism on various campuses; (iii) leaders of the Foundation for individual rights in education, j street, j street u, academic engagement network, the american association of jewish lawyers and jurists, open hillel, secure community network, and ameinu; (iv) the staff of the u.s. Holocaust memorial museum's committee on holocaust denial and state-sponsored antisemitism (the executive director serves on this committee); (v) the institue for hate studies at gonzaga university regarding future programs (the executive director services on the advisory aboard for the institue); (vi) the executive committee of the alliance for academic freedom, helpin
The Foundation's executive director helped to educate the public on the Foundation's mission by participating in educational conferences and writing opinion pieces in national publications; specifically the executive director wrote or co-authored opinion pieces that appeared in the forward (about antisemitism and about white supremacy and about academic freedom), cnn online (about a proposed neo-nazi march), inside higher education (about academic freedom and antisemitism), academe blog (about academic freedom and antisemitism), the richmond times (about academic freedom and antisemitism), post & courier (about academic freedom and antisemitism), and ther la jewish journal (about white supremacy). The executive director also spoke before the american association of jewish lawyers and jurists, congrtation kehalath jesurun. The 92nd street y, the academic engagement network, the national jewish student journalism conference, nyu, congregation beth elohim, friends semnary, the fourth inte