New Program Brings Adelphi Students to Washington, DC to Learn About the Past, Unite Against Hatred - Media Coverage Welcome
Garden City, NY (02/23/2023) — A new Adelphi University program, in affiliation with the International March of the Living (MOTL), seeks to combat the rise in hate speech, racism and antisemitism through education. This March, a group of 20 Adelphi University Black and Jewish students will travel to Washington, D.C., to visit the National Museum of African American History & Culture and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The goal of this pilot program is to inspire students to stand up against hate by learning about the past while connecting with one another.
Adelphi's Two Museums program is led by David Machlis, PhD, an associate professor of finance and economics at Adelphi's Robert B. Willumstad School of Business and award-winning humanitarian. Machlis is co-founder and vice chairman of the International MOTL, an annual educational program that brings people from around the world to study the history of the Holocaust and explore the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hatred.
Machlis hopes this two-day excursion will transform the students into boots-on-the-ground leaders in combating the impact of hatred and intolerance in their own communities and throughout the world. As these two groups explore national landmarks together, theycan share important stories about their unique ancestry, history and legacy while learning important lessons first-hand about themselves and others.
"We must learn from the past so a more tolerant and just society will emerge. And we must join together, or we will fail," Machlis said. "We all have a platform, and we must use it to fight intolerance to make the world a better place for all humankind."
Learning from Experts
In Washington, the group will be joined by Steven T. Katz, PhD, academic adviser to the Holocaust Museum, for a museum tour. Katz is the founding director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University, where he holds the Alvin J. And Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies. At the National Museum of African American History & Culture, students will learn about American history through the lens of African American perspectives.
In addition to Machlis, students will travel to Washington D.C. with Joseph Celentano, Adelphi's Willumstad senior adjunct faculty member and project partner, Fabian Burrell, coordinator for programing and community engagement for Adelphi's Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies; Rabbi Yankel Lipsker, director of Chabad on the Garden City campus; and R. Sentwali Bakari, PhD, Adelphi's vice president for student affairs.
"This is an amazing opportunity for Adelphi students to participate in a hands-on learning experience that helps them reflect on the long-standing fight of Blacks and Jews for peace, solidarity, justice, and self-determination and allows for meaningful dialogue about the intersections of anti-semitism, racism, and other forms of oppression," said Bakari.
This inaugural trip, which will take place March 12-13, will be filmed as a documentary to educate students around the world.
Members of the media are welcome and encouraged to attend and document this trip in Washington D.C.
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This March, a group of 20 Adelphi University Black and Jewish students will travel to Washington, D.C., to visit the National Museum of African American History & Culture and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.