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Soul of the People: Commemorating the Shoah Concludes
with Major Events at Iona College
All Events are Free and Open to the Public New Rochelle, NY, February 25, 2002 - A major art exhibit by Alice Lok Cahana that opened on Sunday, February 24, 2002 will run through April 7, 2002 at the Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery in the Iona College Arts Center on 715 North Avenue in New Rochelle. Gallery Hours are Monday - Friday from 12 noon - 5 pm; Thursday from 6:30 pm - 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday from 2 - 5 pm. The Gallery will be closed from Monday, March 25 - Monday, April 1 in observance of Easter and Passover. Cahana, a Holocaust survivor will share her art and life experiences at a Gallery Talk on Wednesday, February 27 at 7:30 pm and Thursday, February 28 at 12 noon in Joyce Auditorium on the Iona campus. The Last Days, Steven Spielberg's and the Shoah Foundation's academy award winning documentary which features the artist on a trip back to Hungary in the 1970's, will be shown on Tuesday, March 5 at 11 am in Joyce Auditorium and again on Thursday, March 7, at 7:30 pm in the Video Lecture Room in Iona College's Arts Center. On Wednesday, March 6 at 3:30 pm. Bonnie Samotin of the Educational Resource Department for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation will present a film discussion So Generations Never Forget What So Few Lived to Tell in Joyce Auditorium. On Wednesday, March 13, at 7: 30 pm in Joyce Auditorium, Cahana's son Michael Z. Cahana, Rabbi at Temple Israel in New Rochelle, and his wife, Cantor Ida Rae Cahana, will perform Through My Mother's Eyes, a dramatic presentation featuring Alice Lok Cahana's poetry and memoirs interwoven with period music. Pianist for the program is Kathryn Donovan Wiegand, Holy Family Parish Children's Choir Director. Rabbi Cahana has been an actor, director and lighting designer and has led programs for unaffiliated, interfaith families sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island, while a Rabbi in Providence, RI. Thirty years ago, Cantor Cahana became the first female cantorial soloist in her native city of Pittsburgh. Her professional singing experiences range from opera to oratorio and musical theater. She has appeared in New York City on Broadway, Town Hall, the 92nd Street Y and Alice Tully Hall. On Tuesday, March 19, at 7:30 pm, in Joyce Auditorium, Dr. Leo Lebebure, associate professor of Systematic Theology at Fordham University, will address The History of Christian Religious Intolerance From Conflict to Healing. Dr. Lebebure earned his PhD in Chrisitian Theology from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and has written widely and taught courses on Christian theology, religious conflict and prayer. Commemorating the Shoah's special programs conclude on Thursday, April 4, 2002 at 12 noon in Spellman Lounge with a public discussion Reflection on Intolerance that provides an occasion for the Iona community and the public to discuss their reactions to The Soul of the People with Holocaust survivors. You are invited to bring a brown bag lunch to this event. Iona College's Brother John G. Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies, the Iona College Council on the Arts, Iona's Program of Peace and Justice Studies and The Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation, Inc. have worked with Provost Warren Rosenberg to bring this series of events to Iona. Dr. Elena Procario-Foley, the first Driscoll Professor, directs the study and celebration of the relationship between Jewish and Catholic cultures and beliefs. The Driscoll Professorship, established through the generosity of Jack '86H and Susan Rudin, reflects Iona's mission to prize the values of justice, peace and interreligious dialogue. For more information, please call (914) 637-7796 and visit our web site at www.iona.edu/artscouncil.
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