Fall Lecture: Esther Safran Foer, The Capital Jewish Museum

Esther Safran Foer, The Capital Jewish Museum
November 15
1:30–2:30 PM
In-Person at OLLI

Esther Safran Foer is President of the Board of Directors of the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum. She was born in Poland to Louis and Ethel Safran, Holocaust survivors who met in 1945. She spent her early childhood in a displaced persons camp before moving with her family to the US in 1949. The family later settled in Washington, DC. 

Safran Foer founded FM Strategic Communications in 2002. For 10 years she was the CEO of Sixth & I Synagogue, where she helped develop a nationally recognized model for young professional engagement within a historic synagogue and cultural center. She was named one of the Forward 50 Jewish leaders. In 2020 she published the post Holocaust-memoir I Want You to Know We’re Still Here, which has been translated into eight languages. She also worked as press secretary for presidential candidate George McGovern.

About the museum she says, “The Board of Directors and I can’t wait to welcome the local community and visitors from around the world to Washington’s first Jewish museum.”

Reservations are required to attend in-person lectures. In-person lectures will be held in the Spring Valley Building, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, in Room A on the First Floor. Registration for the above lecture will open here at 10:00 AM on the Friday prior to the lecture. The direct registration link will also be included in the Friday newsletter the week prior. You must have an OLLI account to register. If you do not have one, you can create an account when going to register. Each registrant may reserve one seat. Your name must be on the list of registrants to enter the lecture and you must be in your seat five minutes before the lecture starts to guarantee your seat.