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November 1, 2002

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On
Saturday evening, Nov. 16,
Deborah Lipstadt will be the special guest at a private home in Newton . . . the signature event of The Jewish
Community Day School in
Newton.
— Open invitation

Jewish Telegraph Agency, New York, October
31, 2002

Lipstadt had surgery last month

AT Sunday’s plenary, historian
Deborah Lipstadt, weak from recent surgery, drew two standing ovations from the Lions, as she received an award for her battle against libel charges from
British Holocaust denier David
Irving.

NWC chair Ann-Louise Kleper
presented a menorah to the Emory
University Dorot Professor of Modern
Jewish and Holocaust Studies for her role
“as guardian of truth and memory.”

Lipstadt told of the messages of suppport from Holocaust survivors during and after her 2000 victory in a London courtroom.

“Mamele, mamele, mamele, du bist unzere
Devorah,” she quoted Atlanta’s Betty
Goodfriend as telling her, comparing the feisty scholar to the biblical warrior
Deborah.”

Invitation

Matters of Taste’ fund-raiser for JCDS

YOU read about Deborah Lipstadt
on the front page of the New York
Times. Sued for libel by the notorious Holocaust denier David Irving,
Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin UK, won a resounding victory. The London
Daily Telegraph declared that this case “has done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.”

The
London Observer noted that the verdict was “one of the most crushing judgments ever dumped over an English plaintiff.” A historical consultant to the
U.S.

Holocaust Museum and a member of its council, Professor Lipstadt has written
“Denying the Holocaust: The Growing
Assault on Truth and Memory,” which led to her successful London trial, and “Beyond
Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust,” in which she examines how the American press covered the news of the “final solution.”

On Saturday evening, Nov. 16
[2002], Deborah Lipstadt will be the “special guest” at a private home in
Newton as part of Matters of Taste, the signature event of The Jewish Community
Day School in Newton.

Fifteen other privately hosted dinners will be held simultaneously each featuring “special guests” such as Osvaldo Golijov, prize-winning composer; Professor Deborah
Lipstadt, Holocaust scholar who won a resounding victory in England against a
Holocaust denier; Steve Grossman, longtime leader in the state and national
Democratic parties; and, Adam
Seligman, professor of religion and founder of “The Toleration Project.”

If you would like us to set a place for you at one of these dinners, please contact
Karen Doryoseph at 617-965-5100 or [email protected].

Our thanks
to our reader who spotted the above
items

This website urges our readers to go along and support this worthy cause

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    Lipstadt the next time you see
    her…
  • Controversy
    April 2001 over Emory’s choice of
    Deborah Lipstadt as graduation speaker;
    won’t get honorary
    degree

Update on Lipstadt’s Book About the Trial: Irving v. Lipstadt

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