We're just one week away from the Walk for Animals — North County! Join us at Kit Carson Park on 2/26 for a walk to save lives, featuring a tasty pancake breakfast, rockin' live music, activities for pups and people and so much more! Register today at: sdhumane.org/ncwalk

Now that it's official, excited to announce that I'll be starting a new position this summer as the Director of the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Keene State College ! Grateful for the past six years at USD and excited for the next chapter. sentinelsource.com/news/local/kee…

Tons of gratitude for the amazing team Religion and Cities for supporting this research!

Kate DeConinck Kate DeConinck, incoming Director of Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Keene State College explores import of institutional context, agency & positionality for both instructors & students in the interreligious studies classroom. Her response to Jones & Meyer: bit.ly/3wQjIUt

Just found out sometimes when they swear in police dogs they put their paw on the Bible which means they think dogs not only believe in jesus but fear him to the point they would not break an oath sworn to him.

Pope Francis puts Jews' desperate wartime appeals to Pope Pius XII online religionnews.com/2022/06/23/pop… via RNS

A ‘huge reckoning’ for America in Ken Burns’ new documentary about the Holocaust jewishinsider.com/2022/08/ken-bu…

One of my favorite poems by @maggiesmithpoet:

Register today for our 2022 Holocaust Memorial Lecture, "The U.S. and the Holocaust: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein"! Keene State College Learn more at: keene.edu/news/stories/d…

So all of this to say: There is trauma in the running. There is trauma in the running. There is trauma in the running. And we have to do more. (21/21)

A lovely piece in the The Keene Sentinel this morning about our new director! Learn more about Kate DeConinck and what she brings to our Center and the community. Keene State College sentinelsource.com/news/local/in-…

'You Never Think It's Going To Happen In Your Neighborhood' Jeffrey Cohen, a surgeon and #TreeOfLife member, lived a half block from the synagogue. He reflects on the terror, the Jewish doctors who treated the shooter, and the outpouring of support. bit.ly/3DGQKLu

SDSU Report Spotlights Downtown Restroom Shortcomings. 🚽🧻 A new analysis found that less than half of San Diego’s permanent restroom facilities could be considered “truly open access.” Just two were available around the clock seven days a week. bit.ly/3FsxwbN

Before the longest night of the yr on December 21, 2022, the #SanDiego Housing Emergency Alliance will hold its 6th & final Tent Vigil of 2022 for at least 1,427 houseless #SanDiego Co. residents known to have died in 2020-22 per the Co. Medical Examiner. #HomelessMemorial 1/x

We invite you to attend a January Symposium Exploring Interfaith/Interreligious Pedagogies for the Undergraduate Classroom: shorturl.at/hTWY3 Share widely! Hartford International University BU School of Theology (STH) Boston Theological BC Clough School of Theology + Ministry @BosColTheology Institute for Islamic, Christian, & Jewish Studies

Each year, we host an event to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. To avoid a conflict with Shabbat, we will be co-hosting our event with Congregation Ahavas Achim on Tues, 2/7! Join us for L'Dough V'Dough, a storytelling & bread-making event: tinyurl.com/2sh44wrz

Check out the beautiful feature and photos of L'Dough V'Dough on the front page of the The Keene Sentinel this morning. Our thanks to hannah schroeder for doing justice to this powerful community event in her reporting! sentinelsource.com/news/local/wea… Keene State College @KSC_HGS