Healing Trauma: How to Address Internalized Antisemitism and Lessons for the Next Generation

Founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, a leader, thinker, and educator, Ben M. Freeman is the author of Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People and Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride. Educating, inspiring and empowering, his work focuses on Jewish identity and historical and contemporary Jew-hatred. A Holocaust scholar for over fifteen years, Ben came to prominence during the Corbyn Labour Jew-hate crisis in the UK and quickly became one of his generation’s leading Jewish thinkers and voices against Jew-hate. Voted number 8 on the inaugural 25 Young ViZionaries list by the Jerusalem Post and JNF-USA. He is also a Jewish Diplomat for the World Jewish Congress, a Research Fellow for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism Policy and a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. As a specialist in the field for over a decade, Ben is a prominent thought-leader on Jewish education, history and identity and carries out speaking engagements all over the world. His work also includes consulting for Emmy Award-winning directors on documentary projects, such as Jews of the Wild West. Through his work, he aims to educate, inspire and empower both Jewish and non-Jewish people from all over the world.

Dr. Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath is an award-winning Jewish educator, and currently serves as the Managing Director of Identity, Ideas, and Adolescents at The Jewish Education Project. Samantha is a recognized expert on antisemitism, Jewish peoplehood, Israel, and Jewish teens. She is the author of #antisemitism: Coming of Age During the Resurgence of Hate, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Education and Jewish Identity.