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RHJC envisions a global society where the universal principles of equality, fairness & justice prevail.
Join us Monday, November 16 at 6 p.m. as UCLA sociologist Aliza Luft, author of Sacred Betrayal, explores what allows hate to take hold, how communities can resist it, and what Nuremberg can teach us about confronting it today.

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25 Years of Asking Questions: Can We Stop Hate?
Antisemitism, racism, and political violence raise difficult questions about how individuals and communities respond to hate. What are the conditions that allow hate to take hold?
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October 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Tsai's latest book will be available for purchase and signing after the talk.

Free and open to the public at the Jackson Center, 305 E. Fourth St., Jamestown. Sponsored by @SouthernChautauquaFederalCreditUnion.

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Who belongs in America? And who decides? From Ellis Island to today’s debates over immigration and... Read More
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October 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
...our Fri-Yay Community Mixer. RHJC staff will be behind the bar as celebrity bartenders at The Empty Bottle, and a portion of the proceeds benefits the Robert H. Jackson Center.

Come raise a glass with us. See you there!
October 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The Tribunal then pronounced the sentences, closing the trial's 218th and final day.

This entry concludes the #OTD in #Nuremberg series and its day-by-day account of the trial. Thank you for following along.
October 1, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Hess, Kaltenbrunner, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, Doenitz, von Schirach, Sauckel, Seyss-Inquart, and Speer were each convicted on some counts and acquitted on others. Schacht, von Papen, and Fritzsche were acquitted and ordered discharged "when the Tribunal presently adjourns."
October 1, 2026 at 3:17 PM
American judge Francis Biddle, in part, read the Tribunal's reasoning: by signing the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, Germany had renounced war, making aggressive war "illegal in international law" and a crime for those who wage it.

Verdicts came the next day.

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This panel is part of the greater International Law Weekend Midwest at Case Western Reserve University... Read More
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September 30, 2026 at 12:14 PM
"the supreme international crime."

Drawing largely on the Nazis' own captured documents, the vindication of Justice Jackson's strategy, the Tribunal found that the seizures of Austria and Czechoslovakia and the invasion of Poland were steps in a "preordained scheme and plan."
September 30, 2026 at 12:14 PM