Beyond Never Again – A New JLI Series on the Holocaust

Timed to coincide with Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day, Beyond Never Again, a six-part course about the Holocaust, will premiere in more than 300 locations worldwide, including Greater Springfield. Created by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), the world’s largest network of adult education, Beyond Never Again has won support from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, and more than 100 centers and institutes devoted to studying the Holocaust around the world.

Envisioned as a journey into the intense realm of meaning, Beyond Never Again examines the universal themes that the Holocaust forces us to confront, such as the nature of good and evil, and how empathy and conscience may be nurtured.

“The course is formulated as a series of facilitated discussions that will enable participants to articulate their personal responses to the Holocaust,” remarked Rabbi Yakov Wolff, JLI instructor. 

“Beyond and Never Again provides relevant angles on some of life’s most difficult questions pertaining to faith and suffering.”

Starting on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at the Jewish Community Center, 1160 Dickinson Street, Springfield, MA  Beyond Never Again will run for sixconsecutive Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. and is expected to draw many local students to its dynamic text-based and audio-visual classes. Beyond Never Again will also be offered at the law offices of Jim Smith, 1331 Main Street, Springfield, MA for six consecutive Thursdays beginning April 29, 2010 from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.

 The Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), is the adult education arm of Chabad-Lubavitch. Now based in almost 300 cities nationwide, as well as Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Holland, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Venezuela, JLI’s classes and programs have been attended by nearly 150,000 people since its creation in 1998.

Every course offered by JLI is offered concurrently in all worldwide affiliate locations. This unique feature has created a true global learning community. Please visit www.myjli.com for up-to-the-minute information about Beyond Never Again.

JLI courses are presented under the auspices of Chabad of Greater Springfield.