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Columbia Unbecoming - A Documentary and Panel Discussion [IN-PERSON]

  • Manhasset Cinemas 430 Plandome Road Manhasset, NY, 11030 United States (map)

Columbia Unbecoming - A Documentary and Panel Discussion [IN-PERSON]

Panel discussion with Producer Charles Jacobs, Jewish student leaders then & now, Activists fighting College Antisemitism

Charles Jacobs is a human rights activist who holds a Doctor of Education (EdD) from Harvard University (1988). He co-founded Boston's branch of CAMERA, and in 2002, he founded The David Project. He is currently the president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance. Jacobs has been involved in anti-slavery activism since the 1990s, having helped found the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), while he proceeded to publicize contemporary slavery in Sudan and Mauritania. Jacobs was given the Boston Freedom Award in September 2000 as an acknowledgment of his anti-slavery work. Along with Ralph Avi Goldwasser, Jacobs founded the David Project for Jewish Leadership in 2002. The Project is an organization whose mission is to "combat anti-Israel bias on university campuses" and "document campus harassment of Jewish students."