Soul Food Shabbat

For years, Queens students have sponsored a Soul Food Shabbat bringing together the Queens Black Student Union and Queens Hillel for a celebration of Shabbat and an exploration of commonalities as we explore our past and present struggles. This year, we are opening the experience up to the broader Charlotte community.

Utilizing video testimony from Leon Bass, a Black World War II liberator in a segregated army, we will engage in a conversation with our visiting scholars and all who attend to explore the legacy of this difficult history. We will explore the connections between Jim Crow Laws and the Nazi Nuremberg Laws, the social construct of race and its historical impact on Blacks and Jews, and identify practical responses to combat antisemitism and racism today.

This program is sponsored by Queens Hillel, the Belk Chapel, DICE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement), the Stan Greenspon Holocaust and Social Justice Education Center, and the Charlotte Black/Jewish Alliance.

Panelists will include Dr. Aya Marczyk, Associate Research Scholar at Yale University and Dr. O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, Assistant Professor, History and African American Studies, Winthrop University Moderators will include Dr. Melvin Herring, Director of the Master of Social Work Program, Johnson C. Smith University and Rabbi Judy Schindler, Sklut Professor of Jewish Studies, Queens University of Charlotte.

This program is free for Queens faculty, staff and students. There will be a fee of $23/person to cover the cost of dinner for community members.

Register will close on 2/10/23 at 10:00 am.