The Nexus of Anti-Semitism & Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Human Rights
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Interviews can be arranged with Hannah Rosenthal and Paul Fairchild. May 9, 2012 Press Release – For Immediate Release Cream City Foundation Sponsors 414.225.0244 Cream City Foundation, 759 N. Milwaukee Street, Suite 212, Milwaukee, WI 53202 Cream City Foundation serves as a catalyst for social change on behalf of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender communities in southeastern Wisconsin. Their work includes strategic grant making, education, and media outreach. |
Press and Articles on the Event
Remarks on Anti-Semitism and Human Rights for LGBT People for the Cream City Foundation
May 30, 2012 US Department of State As a child of a Holocaust survivor, anti-Semitism is something very personal to me. I am the daughter of a man who was literally marked by a badge of “difference” – a yellow star that not only made him stand out as non-German in the eyes of the Nazis, but also placed a bounty on his head. A survivor of Buchenwald, my father experienced what hate, left unchecked, can do. As a result of his experiences, he instilled in me an urgency to fight not only anti-Semitism, but also intolerance in all of its forms. More... |
The Nexus of Anti-Semitism & Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Human Rights
Tuesday, May 29 5-8pm.
Cream City Foundation invites you to The Nexus of Anti-Semitism & Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Human Rights Tuesday, May 29 5-8pm featuring Hannah Rosenthal, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Program will take place at Wisconsin Club, 900 W. Wisconsin Avenue, $25, including appetizers and cash bar. Please contact the Cream City Foundation to reserve your place.
Paul Fairchild, President & CEO of the Cream City Foundation comments, “We are honored to have Ms. Rosenthal as our guest to bring anti-Semitism and LGBT Human Rights into the forefront of our contemporaneous conversation in the Milwaukee community.”
Hannah Rosenthal was sworn in as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism on November 23, 2009. Sparked by the work and experience of her father, a rabbi and Holocaust survivor, and her own experience studying to become a rabbi, Hannah Rosenthal has led a life marked by activism and a passion for social justice.
Jim Schleif, President of Cream City Foundation Board of Directors, adds, “This event brings to light the need for all communities that experience discrimination to band together. If any one of us is diminished in realizing our full human potential, we all suffer as a society.”
Before joining the State Department, Ms. Rosenthal was Executive Director of the Chicago Foundation for Women, where she led one of the largest women's funds in the world. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs for five years, where she worked on domestic and international policy for the organized Jewish community in North America.
Ms. Rosenthal served as Midwest regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration. She was involved in community organizing, and the antiwar and civil rights movements in the 1960s.
Ms. Rosenthal attended graduate school for rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and Los Angeles, and holds a bachelor’s degree in religion from the University of Wisconsin.
Paul Fairchild, President & CEO of the Cream City Foundation comments, “We are honored to have Ms. Rosenthal as our guest to bring anti-Semitism and LGBT Human Rights into the forefront of our contemporaneous conversation in the Milwaukee community.”
Hannah Rosenthal was sworn in as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism on November 23, 2009. Sparked by the work and experience of her father, a rabbi and Holocaust survivor, and her own experience studying to become a rabbi, Hannah Rosenthal has led a life marked by activism and a passion for social justice.
Jim Schleif, President of Cream City Foundation Board of Directors, adds, “This event brings to light the need for all communities that experience discrimination to band together. If any one of us is diminished in realizing our full human potential, we all suffer as a society.”
Before joining the State Department, Ms. Rosenthal was Executive Director of the Chicago Foundation for Women, where she led one of the largest women's funds in the world. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs for five years, where she worked on domestic and international policy for the organized Jewish community in North America.
Ms. Rosenthal served as Midwest regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration. She was involved in community organizing, and the antiwar and civil rights movements in the 1960s.
Ms. Rosenthal attended graduate school for rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and Los Angeles, and holds a bachelor’s degree in religion from the University of Wisconsin.
