The Righteous Conversations Project at LAMOTH is proud to be named one of North America's top 50 innovative Jewish organizations in the 11th annual Slingshot Guide, a go-to resource for inspiring and innovative opportunities and projects.

Through the Righteous Conversations Project, students engage in dialogue with Holocaust Survivors, and steward Holocaust remembrance through film, multi-media, music, and the arts.

Selected from among hundreds of finalists reviewed by 93 professionals with expertise in grant-making and Jewish communal life, the Righteous Conversations Project is the only one of the 50 selected organizations focused on Holocaust commemoration and education work, and one of 16 organizations with women Executive Directors and Board Chairs. The Guide calls Righteous Conversations' work "essential to the future generations of Jews and all people."

The Slingshot Guide, published annually, is available in hard copy and as a free download at www.slingshotfund.org.

To view the Righteous Conversations virtual PSA gallery, visit  www.righteousconversations.org.

LAMOTH is partnering with Shalom Institute in Malibu and the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London to bring greater awareness to a precious collection of Torah Scrolls that survived the Holocaust. These scrolls have been entrusted by the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London to communities and synagogues across the globe, and 75 are entrusted to synagogues and organizations across Los Angeles.

On April 17 at LAMOTH we will be hosting a community awareness and learning event about the scrolls and their history. 

If your synagogue has been entrusted with one of these Torah Scrolls and you are interested in participating in the April 17th event please contact Rachel Gordon by March 25 at [email protected].  

LAMOTH welcomed 178 10th grade students from Animo Bunche Charter High School as part of the LAMOTH Share Our Stories program. The students explored the galleries and learned about the artifacts through the Museum's audio guides. Next week, Museum staff and Holocaust Survivors will visit the students in their classroom to connect through oral history and artistic reflection.

To learn more about LAMOTH's Share Our Stories, please visit www.share-our-stories.org.

This week LAMOTH welcomed students from Olive Vista Middle School and Animo Jackie Robinson High School. The students began their day with a docent-led tour of the galleries and then heard from Holocaust Survivor Henry Oster. 

This was the first visit to LAMOTH for both schools and we look forward to welcoming them again next year.

Dave Lux was barely six years old when Nazi Germany  invaded his small Czechoslovakian village. Shortly before the outbreak of war, British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton organized  the rescue of hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia  and arranged for their entrance  into England. Dave's parents sent him and his brother on this Kindertransport to England where they lived for the remainder of the war. The two brothers made aliyah to Israel in 1949, and Dave eventually  settled in Los Angeles.  

You can see artifacts reflecting Dave's experiences in our weekly Survivor Speaker micro-exhibit, located near the front desk.

A docent-led tour of the Museum will immediately follow the talk.