Earlier this month, over 140 participants joined Onsite@Home for Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Led by New-York Historical Society docent Jeanne Pape, the virtual event walked viewers through a special exhibit honoring the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG), the trailblazing Supreme Court justice and cultural icon. But exploring the life of RBG and her varied roles as student, wife, mother, lawyer, judge, women’s rights pioneer, and internet phenomenon was just the beginning!
The exhibit sparked a lively conversation with participants sharing their own experiences in the workforce during this time, issues of sexism in the workforce, personal memories of RBG and shared reflections of the people in their lives who’ve created change—both large and small.
This was just one of the many exciting programs offered by DOROT’s Onsite@Home on a weekly basis. If you haven’t signed up for one yet, what are you waiting for?
Here are a few upcoming Onsite@Home events to keep in mind!
The Experience of the Poem - various dates
Join the conversation with DOROT members and award-winning poet and long-time DOROT instructor Jessica Greenbaum. We will be spending time each week with a few poems that aim to offer poetry’s glorious array of powers. Most poems will be contemporary and accessible, chosen for how they might amplify what it means to be a human being—and also what it means to be a poem. The theme of the poems we read will flow with the curiosity of the class, hoping to invite and encourage everyone to partake of this free-to-all art. No previous experience needed, of course! We will look forward to being together on screen in the ways we can be (please keep your cameras on if possible!) and getting to know each other through our shared thoughts and questions.
Schedule:
- Jan 27, 2022 10:00 AM EST
- Feb 3, 2022 10:00 AM EST
- Feb 10, 2022 10:00 AM EST
- Feb 17, 2022 10:00 AM EST
- Feb 24, 2022 10:00 AM EST
- Mar 3, 2022 10:00 AM EST
- Mar 10, 2022 10:00 AM EST
Register HERE
'The Times They Were a-Changin’ - Jan 28, 2022
Jewish Protest Singers of the 1960s Join us to explore how, while they may have shed the Yiddish language, Jewish singers and songwriters perpetuated the tradition of Yiddish songs of social justice in the countercultural ferment of the 1960s. Musicians ranging from Bob Dylan to Phil Ochs to Janis Ian to Country Joe and the Fish (plus Tom Lehrer, Si Kahn, Paul Simon, Jefferson Airplane) wrote and sang songs that became anthems of the civil rights, antiwar, and women’s movements, among other expressions of political protest. Together we'll examine how these Jewish artists addressed many of the same issues their Yiddish forebears tackled just a few decades earlier and how Jewish values (e.g., Tikkun olam) seem to have informed their work. We'll also take a look at how non-Jews including Pete Seeger and Joan Baez wound up being the caretakers of the tradition and transitional figures in bringing Yiddish protest music alive as part of the folk revival. Led by Seth Rogovoy, author, producer, musician
Register HERE
West Side Story - Feb 7, 2022
With Steven Spielberg's new film version of West Side Story now in theaters and soon to begin streaming, join us for a short lecture and discussion devoted to this famous and much-debated musical. Manhattan Borough Historian Rob Snyder, our discussion leader, has written on both the gang wars of the 1950s that inspired the original play and the recent film. (He also played the role of Diesel in junior high school.) Bring your thoughts about the film and the play, and what you might remember of New York City in the 1950s.
Register HERE
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Lasting Impressions: DOROT’s Legacy Project is generously supported by a grant from the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation