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Remembering October 7: A Live Virtual Tour of the Nova Festival Site
Three years to the day, David Sussman took AIC live across the Nova festival site and through the communities along the Gaza border, with an opening prayer led by Cheryl Dorchinsky.
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The car cemetery on the Gaza border
What to take home from Nova
Back home on the Gaza border
David Sussman: October 7 Morning, a Rocket Over My Synagogue
David Sussman: Pick One Name From Nova and Learn Their Story
David Sussman: A Rabbi Who Turned Others Into Brothers
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Justice Beyond Borders: Americans Murdered by Terrorists and the Fight for AccountabilityArnold Roth, Kathleen Luken, Tal Hartuv, and attorney Mark Goldfeder joined AIC over Zoom to examine why the killers of American citizens have never been tried in a US courtroom, and what would change that.Watch the recording → An Evening with Sami Steigmann: Holocaust Survivor and Motivational Speaker (Virtual)A virtual evening with Sami Steigmann, co-hosted for a Rhode Island audience with Israel Brief and the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel. His testimony and his E.M.E.T. framework went out live to the community over Zoom.Watch the recording → Bridges of Hope: Standing Together for a Better TomorrowBridges of Hope brought a Persian Jewish vocalist, a soul composer, a Moroccan-born Muslim author, an Iranian-African American comedian, a hip-hop producer, a Holocaust survivor, and a survivor of Kashmir’s ethnic cleansing to one Dunwoody stage, for a night of music, comedy, and testimony.Watch the recording → An Evening with Yirmiyahu Danzig: Jewish Identity, History & Belonging in a Complex WorldYirmiyahu Danzig of Unpacked came back to Atlanta to talk about Jewish identity, the 'other' Jewish histories, belonging, and antisemitism.Watch the recording → Conversation with a Holocaust SurvivorAIC sat down with George Rishfeld, who was hidden as a small child in wartime Poland, for a long conversation about what he remembers, what his parents did to keep him alive, and why he still tells it. Published by AIC in November 2025; the recording itself is undated.Watch the recording → An Evening of Solidarity and SongCongregation Beth Jacob, with AIC and Congregation Ohr HaTorah, welcomed Aviva Siegel, Yarden Gonen, and Maya Roman, from three families of Israeli hostages, for an evening of song, prayer, and conversation.Watch the recording → Testimonies Without Boundaries: An Evening with Alon PenzelThe evening after the first anniversary of October 7, author Alon Penzel talked with AIC about the testimonies he collected for Testimonies Without Boundaries.Watch the recording → Let's GATHER Together to Rediscover the Land of Israel After October 7: Three Live ToursThree free live tours from Israel with guide David Sussman, nearly a year after October 7: Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, Kibbutz Re'im, and the Nova festival site.Watch the recording → Let's GATHER Together: Discovering the Joy of Volunteering in IsraelAn Israeli wine and cheese tasting followed by a practical session on how to actually get to Israel and volunteer: routes, costs, and interest-free loans from JIFLA.Watch the recording → An Evening with Benaya CherlowAIC hosted an in-person evening with Benaya Cherlow.Watch the recording → Israel Advocacy and Insights from Those Who Live ItTwo months into the war, Cheryl Dorchinsky talked Israel advocacy with Virag Gulyas, a Hungarian Zionist who isn't Jewish, and Ian Halperin, a filmmaker and the son of a Holocaust survivor.Watch the recording → The Extraordinary Journey of a Black, Jewish, Zionist Singer and Spy Whisperer, with Darrell BlockerFive days after October 7, former CIA counterterrorism officer Darrell Blocker sat down with Cheryl Dorchinsky at Ahavath Achim Synagogue to talk about how he came to Judaism and about the war that had just begun.Watch the recording → AIC Israel Tour: Discovering the Land of IsraelAIC's first in-person tour of Israel: ten days across the country led by Cheryl Dorchinsky with guide David Sussman, plus an optional Petra and Eilat extension.Watch the recording → Islamist and Other Extremist Influences in the Establishment of the Jewish State, with Prof. Jeffrey HerfProf. Jeffrey Herf on the forces that opposed, and nearly blocked, the re-establishment of the Jewish state between 1945 and 1949, including the Nazi links to Arab antisemitism.Watch the recording → The Palestinian Authority as the Source of Global Antisemitism, with Lt. Col. (Res.) Maurice HirschMaurice Hirsch of Palestinian Media Watch on the Palestinian Authority's own output as a source of antisemitism worldwide.Watch the recording → Fighting the BDS War in the Entertainment Industry, with Lana MelmanAuthor and anti-BDS advocate Lana Melman spoke on how boycott campaigns target Israel through the entertainment industry, and how to answer them.Watch the recording → The Advocate Award of Excellence, marking Jewish Heritage MonthThe Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation honored The Lawfare Project and its founder Brooke Goldstein for their work on Jewish civil rights, with tributes from Ronald Lauder and others. AIC participated.Watch the recording → AIC Israel Tour: Information Session and Q&ACheryl Dorchinsky and guide David Sussman answered questions about AIC's first in-person Israel tour before anyone had to commit.Watch the recording → Bamba, Coke, Memory: Remembering Major Yochai KalangelAs Yom HaZikaron began in 2022, Bishvil Hanoflim remembered Major Yochai Kalangel with his siblings. AIC took part.Watch the recording → How Putin’s Aggression Has Destroyed Ukrainian Jewry, with Sam SokolJournalist Sam Sokol joined AIC over Zoom to trace how Putin’s war has devastated Ukrainian Jewry.Watch the recording → Jewish On Campus: What’s Going On in Our Schools and What We Can Do About ItOlga Meshoe Washington, Gerard Filitti, Carolina Simon, and Cheryl Dorchinsky on what Jewish students face at school, and how to make campuses safe for them.Watch the recording → Shine a Light on Antisemitism: Atlanta Community Hanukkah CelebrationAtlanta's community Hanukkah celebration at the MJCCA, held under the global Shine A Light on Antisemitism campaign. AIC joined it as one of the campaign's partners.Watch the recording → Re-Discovering the Land of Israel: Five More Virtual ToursFive more Sunday-morning virtual tours with David Sussman: the Hula Valley in migration season, ancient Caesarea, Masada, Eilat, and Haifa.Watch the recording → Israel and the Palestinians: A Deeper Look, with Bassem EidPalestinian human-rights campaigner Bassem Eid took the questions people were asking after the spring's fighting with Hamas, from the ceasefire and Gaza to Sheikh Jarrah and BDS.Watch the recording → The Abraham Accords: Working Towards a New Middle East, Writing a Positive Story TogetherFive members of Sharaka, the Israeli and Gulf group building ties between ordinary people, on what the Abraham Accords changed and what a treaty can't do by itself.Watch the recording → Legends, Lessons & Legacies: The Jewish Community’s Impact on Birmingham’s Civil Rights MovementAuthor T.K. Thorne and the children of three Birmingham Jewish leaders on the part the city's Jewish community played in the civil rights movement.Watch the recording → Attacks in Israel: A Conversation with Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Deputy Mayor of JerusalemJerusalem's Deputy Mayor on the unrest in her city in April 2021 and the attacks from Gaza, in a Zoom conversation with Cheryl Dorchinsky.Watch the recording → Israel-US Relations and the New Middle East, with Dr. Elai RettigDr. Elai Rettig on what a change of U.S. administration meant for Israel, for the normalization agreements, and for the Israeli-Palestinian question.Watch the recording → Re-Discovering the Land of Israel: Five Virtual ToursFive Sunday-morning virtual tours of Israel with guide David Sussman (Gush Etzion, Hebron, Tzfat, Tel Aviv and Jaffa, and the Golan Heights), free and open to any age.Watch the recording → The Inaugural AIC Impact Award, presented to Kay WilsonAIC marked its first two years by creating the AIC Impact Award and giving it to Kay Wilson, whose testimony had already moved five of the evening's speakers to act.Watch the recording → Virtual Tour of the Old City of Jerusalem: A Closer LookA second free virtual tour a week after the Hanukkah walk, this one through all four quarters of the Old City with the residents who live in them.Watch the recording → Tour the Old City of Jerusalem This Hanukkah: A Free Live Virtual TourA free live virtual tour of the Old City with guide David Sussman, walking the streets to the Kotel and reaching the Western Wall in time for the official Hanukkah candle-lighting.Watch the recording → Celebrate Sigd: An Ethiopian Jewish Holiday, with Naftali AklumNaftali Aklum introduced the community to Sigd, the Ethiopian Jewish holiday marked on the 29th of Cheshvan and an Israeli state holiday since 2008.Watch the recording → Israel Today: A Personal Perspective, with Bassem EidBassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights campaigner who grew up in the Shuafat refugee camp, gave the community his own account of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and who actually pays for the conflict.Watch the recording → Behind the Scenes with Sonovia: A Start-Up Nation StorySonovia's co-founder and research team on how a small Israeli start-up turned an anti-pathogen fabric technology into a commercial business in the middle of a pandemic.Watch the recording → Israel and the U.S. Police ExchangeA briefing on the exchange programs that send U.S. police officers to train in counterterrorism prevention and response with Israeli colleagues.Watch the recording → Let's Rise Up Together, from the USA to IsraelA three-way conversation on racism, antisemitism, and hate, with Joshua Washington of IBSI, terror survivor Kay Wilson, and Israel's Deputy Consul General in Miami, Kasa Bainesay Harbor.Watch the recording → Web Talk with Raheel Raza: How One Muslim Activist Came to Support IsraelRaheel Raza, a Pakistani-Canadian journalist and founding member of the Muslim Reform Movement, spoke on how she came to support Israel and what it costs a Muslim who says so publicly.Watch the recording →
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A Minute with Our Speakers
Tal Hartuv: After the Attack, I Stood Up as a Jew
Mark Goldfeder: Every Tool Is Named After Somebody's Dead Child
Sami Steigmann: Please Don't Compare October 7 to the Holocaust
Sami Steigmann: I Am Not What Happened to Me
Sami Steigmann: The Woman Who Saved My Life With Milk
Sami Steigmann: How I Learned I Was Experimented On
Sami Steigmann: The Sixth Grader Who Changed My Life
Sami Steigmann: Knowledge Without Action Means Very Little
Sami Steigmann: A Jewish Policeman, and I Knew I Was Home
Sami Steigmann: We Hate People Because We Don't Know Them
Sami Steigmann: To One Person, You Are the World
Sami Steigmann: When Are We Going to Fight for Ourselves?
Sami Steigmann: In Washington Square Park, I Was 'Part of the Problem'
Sami Steigmann: I Did Not Say I Will Try
Sami Steigmann: Why I Start Teaching the Holocaust in Fourth Grade
Sami Steigmann: I Lit the Seventh Candle at Birkenau
Sami Steigmann: How Much I Charge to Speak
Tehran Von Ghasri: Black, Iranian, and Circumcised 14 Times
Tehran Von Ghasri: My Bubby Used Me as Her Shabbos Goy
Uriel Zehavi: A Bridge Is What You Build When There's a Gap
Uriel Zehavi: We Dedicate This Evening to Olga Meshoe Washington
Dr. Andrew Zeidman: The Shabbat Noa Argamani Came Home
Ghazal Mizrahi: The Most Special Thing About Ori Danino Was His Smile
Ghazal Mizrahi: My Mother Was Imprisoned When Her Hijab Blew Off
Tehran Von Ghasri: Challah Is Jewish Cornbread
George Rishfeld: The Jewish Flame Will Continue to Burn
Surinder Dhar: I Survived the Ethnic Cleansing of Kashmir's Hindus
Mustapha Ezzarghani: At 15, I Wanted to Be a Terrorist
Mustapha Ezzarghani: You Do Not Have to Be Jewish to Stand Against Antisemitism
JoDavi: Omer Shem Tov Would Not Help Hamas Kill His People
Caleiv Jean: Peace Is Child's Play for God
Caleiv Jean Gets the Whole Room Singing Am Yisrael Chai
JoDavi Sings State of Freedom: Take My Life, You'll Never Take My Soul
Ghazal Mizrahi Sings the Star-Spangled Banner
Mustapha Ezzarghani: My Identity Is Not Hatred
Surinder Dhar: Many of Us Have Forgotten to Be Human
George Rishfeld: Hiding Under the Bed From the Nazis
George Rishfeld: How Cucumbers Saved My Mother From the Nazis
George Rishfeld: My Parents Reunite After the War
George Rishfeld: How Did My Father Survive? Hope and Vodka
Aviva Siegel: In Gaza, Keith Asked Us for Something Good
Alon Penzel: Why I Started Recording October 7 Testimonies
Alon Penzel: Remembering October 7 Is About Being Human
David Sussman: On October 7, Rockets Had Become Normal
David Sussman: What the Nova Party Scene Was Really Like
David Sussman: In 1909, Tel Aviv Was Nothing But Sand Dunes
David Sussman: Why Tel Aviv Means Old-New
Carrie Newman: Showing Up Tells Israelis They Are Not Alone
Virag Gulyas: Why a Proud Hungarian Is a Proud Zionist
Virag Gulyas: My Three-Second Rule for Arguing About Israel
Darrell Blocker: why join the most hated people on the planet?
Darrell Blocker: I Think I Was Born Jewish
Darrell Blocker: The Essay That Got Me Into the CIA
Darrell Blocker: How a CIA Officer Wins Over People Who Hate Us
Sam Sokol: the Odessa pogrom that never happened
Sam Sokol: Why Don't Ukraine's Jews Just Leave?
Sam Sokol: 73 Percent of Ukrainians Voted for a Jewish Comedian
Olga Washington: Without Judaism, There Is No Christianity
Olga Washington: As a South African, That Is Not Apartheid
Marvel Joseph: Haiti and Israel, One Old Friend Helping Another
Rabbi Brian Glusman: The Real Mitzvah of Hanukkah
Gerard Filitti: Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First
David Sussman: When a Million Soviet Jews Came Home
David Sussman: What a Near-Death Moment in War Taught Me
David Sussman: How an American Hippie Ended Up in Israel
David Sussman: Why the Hebrew Word for Desert Means to Speak
David Sussman: How Ancient Miners Discovered Copper by Accident
David Sussman: The Ink Flag Raised Over Eilat in 1949
David Sussman: Why Rome Built a Siege Wall Around Masada
David Sussman: A 2,000-Year-Old Mikveh at Masada
David Sussman: Masada, 972, and Israel's Phone Code
David Sussman: The Temple's Plunder and the Colosseum
David Sussman: Why Herod Built His Palace Out Into the Sea
David Sussman: Why Europe's Birds All Fly Over Israel
Bassem Eid: BDS acts from warm houses abroad, not from here
Bassem Eid: Palestinians Seek Dignity, Not Just Identity
Bassem Eid: Our Schoolbooks Leave Israel Off the Map
T.K. Thorne: Lunch From a Vending Machine in Jim Crow Birmingham
T.K. Thorne: A Rabbi's Answer to Birmingham's Ministers
T.K. Thorne: Keep the Parks and Sell Bull Connor
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Zionism is very simple
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Why Jerusalem's Internet Is So Bad
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Why Apartheid Is an Unfair Label
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Gaza Could Have Been Dubai
David Sussman: the hilltop fires that announced a new month
David Sussman: Eli Cohen and the Eucalyptus Trees of the Golan
David Sussman: The Jewish Refugees Nobody Talks About
David Sussman: When Yemenite and European Jews Met in Jaffa
David Sussman: Jonah's Lesson, We Want Our Enemies to Change
David Sussman: In 1948, Tzfat's Jews Refused to Leave
David Sussman: Why Jews Put the Right Shoe On First
David Sussman: It Doesn't Matter Where You Came From
David Sussman: A 2,000-Year-Old Coin and Grandfather Abraham
David Sussman: Why Abraham Insisted on Paying Full Price
David Sussman: The Hebron Wall That Looks Like the Western Wall
David Sussman: Why the Olive Branch Means Freedom, Not Peace
David Sussman: Why Synagogues in America Face East
David Sussman: A Roman Mile Marker on the Path of the Patriarchs
Tal Hartuv: The Jewish Prayer Tattooed on My Wrist
Tal Hartuv: Every Major Publisher Turned My Book Down
Raheel Raza: Tal Hartuv Signed My Book Allahu Akbar
David Sussman: Jerusalem's Old City Walls Aren't That Old
David Sussman: The Jaffa Gate Mezuzah Made From Bullets
David Sussman: Why the Tower of David Isn't King David's
Naftali Aklum: On Sigd, Ethiopian Jews Prayed Facing Jerusalem
Naftali Aklum: I'm Jewish, I'm Israeli, and I'm a Black Man
Naftali Aklum: Six Months Old, Walking From Ethiopia to Sudan
Bassem Eid: who made me a refugee? The Jordanian government
Bassem Eid: Israel Never Arrested Me. Arafat Did.
Bassem Eid: The Conflict Is Bigger on US Campuses Than Here
Bassem Eid: As a Muslim, I Don't Want to Live in Syria or Yemen
Robert Friedmann: Why Israel's Police Keep Their Blue Lights On
Robert Friedmann: Atlanta Got the Olympics. I Thought of Munich
Chief Gina Hawkins: What a US Police Chief Learned in Israel
Kasa Bainesay Harbor: We Thought We Were the Only Jews Left
Kasa Bainesay Harbor: Synagogue-Hopping in Israel on Yom Kippur
Tal Hartuv: The Paramedic Who Rode With Me in the Ambulance
Raheel Raza: Pakistan gets a right to exist. Why not Israel?
Raheel Raza: Clean Up the Garbage in Your Own Backyard First
Raheel Raza: Jerusalem Is My City of Joy
Raheel Raza: When the World Was Burning, What Did You Do?
Lauren Isaacs: How Many Jewish Deaths Would Satisfy the Media?
Tal Hartuv: Jews in the Diaspora, We Are in This Together
Tal Hartuv: The Morning Iran's Missiles Hit Central Israel
Tal Hartuv: My Friend Can't Reach a Safe Room in Time
Tal Hartuv: It's Only Stuff
Tal Hartuv: Like Corona on Steroids
Tal Hartuv: Out of the Safe Room, Walking the Dogs
Tal Hartuv: The Dread Between Sirens
Tal Hartuv: In Israel, Right and Left Come Together
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