Jewish American Heritage Month

On April 20, 2006, President George W. Bush proclaimed that May would be Jewish American Heritage Month. The announcement was the crowning achievement in an effort by the Jewish community to proclaim a month that would recognize the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to American culture. The resolutions passed unanimously, first in the House of Representatives in December 2005 and later in the Senate in February 2006.
Today’s English Speaking Club session at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk was dedicated to this topic.

 A slide show “The prominent Jewish Americans” was offered to the group. Our PCV friend Sam Sachs was a co-host of the session and commented on the information about Jewish celebrities. We specifically focused the attention of our PCV friends Sam and Kathryn on the Ukrainian roots of numerous Jewish American celebrities – Gershwin, Philip Kotler, V. Horowitz, L.Bernstein , Serge Brin, etc. A World and Olympic Champion in the lady’s single figure skating Oksana Baiul (now a US citizen) was born in Dnipropetrovsk. 
The second part of the session was dedicated to less serious topics. To refresh in the minds of the Club members the material from the lectures about Australia they were divided into 4 teams and offered word and crossword puzzles about Australia. The winner was the team of Jana Litvinova, the English Speaking Club President. They needed less time to give correct answers in all 3 tasks.
To conclude the session we discussed the plan of events for summer season and several world news sensations that involved a Ukrainian presenter and American celebrities Madonna and Will Smith.
The session attracted quite many new members and was rather educational to all participants.
The number of participants – 21 persons.
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