Refugee Integration in Virginia. | ECDC

 Work I did for the Ethiopian Community Development Council on Refugee Integration in Virginia. a while back Most of these portraits are mine.Thanks to Dr. Teferra and the wonderful staff at ECDC.

For more information see this post by ECDC.

Klezmer | from the vaults 1999-2001

 I recently scanned a batch of my negatives from my archives depicting klezmer musicians circa 1999 to 2001. Many were made at KlezKamp 1999 and 2000 in the Catskills and New Jersey, one in Florida, others at a range of venues mostly in the Washington DC area. These pictures have not been seen before in any format.

Adrienne Cooper

Vilda Nätter (Miriam Oldernberg & Annakarin Bunnel)

Jonathan Freilach, New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars

Operation Understanding DC | weekend retreat, meeting with Shoah survivors

Operation Understanding DC, a program for Black and Jewish teenagers in the DC area whose mission since 1993 is "... empowering a generation of social justice leaders who will promote respect, understanding and cooperation while fighting to eradicate racism, anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination."

The participants recently visited relevant sites in Farmville and Richmond, Virginia, and returned to DC to hear testimony from two Holocaust survivors,  Peter Feigl and Rose-Helene Spreiregen. They also met with students from an allied program from Atlanta, Georgia, the Black Jewish Teen Initiative.

Thanks to the OUDC students, to Mr. Feigl and Ms. Spreiregen, and OUDC's staff, Dr. Linda J. Mann, Xochi Quetzali Cartland, Kyla Goldsby, and Alix Swann.

I have been documenting OUDC since its founding by Karen Kalish in 1993.

Peter Feigl

Rose-Helene Spreiregen.