Meet Barbra this Chanukah

Barbra Streisand, Henry Winkler and Jason Alexander (Seinfeld), actor David Strathairn and actress Tovah Feldshuh, currently in Funny Girl on Broadway, are special guests at a virtual event to celebrate Chanukah on 20 December at 6.30pm.

Meanwhile, the cast of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof will perform Traditsye.

The annual International Holocaust Survivors Night is a virtual event focused on the theme of hope in the face of rising antisemitism. As well as celebrities you’ll also hear from Isaac Herzog, President of Israel; Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany; Stuart Eizenstat, Special Adviser on Holocaust Issues to the US Secretary of State, and Holocaust envoys from the US, the UK, Canada, Germany and Croatia. Leaders of Holocaust institutions will also provide messages including Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, and Sara J Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Messages of hope will also be heard from Holocaust survivors recently evacuated from Ukraine as well as survivors from other countries. As if all that wasn’t enough, there will be a livestream of the official menorah lighting ceremony at the Western Wall (Kotel) in Israel. To watch, visit https://www.claimscon.org/SurvivorsNight2022/.