The Office of Institutional Transformation, in partnership with the Initiative on Race and Resilience, invites students, faculty, and staff to gather weekly for support and fellowship. Wellsprings: A Time for Connection and Care provides a safe space for members of the campus community to discuss fears and concerns related to social divisiveness. Some sessions may feature presentations or information from campus resources. To suggest a topic, please contact Eve Kelly at ekelly11@nd.edu. Originally published at weareall.nd.edu/.

Michiana Jewish Film FestivalDirected by Heather Dune Macadam, Beatriz CallejaDocumentary, 90 minutes, DCPIn EnglishBest-selling author and historian Heather Dune Macadam has adapted her acclaimed book 999 into a powerful documentary that sheds light on a wrenching true story. In March 1942, nearly 1,000 young Slovak Jewish women, mostly teenagers, told by their government that they were embarking on a volunteer work assignment, were instead illegally deported to Auschwitz on what was the first Jewish transport to the Nazi death camp. Rather than strictly focus on the suffering and death experienced by most of the girls, Macadam tells stories of a small group who survived against all odds, even under unimaginable conditions that lasted more than three grueling years. A film of deep research and vivid detail, 999: The Forgotten Girls ensures that these women will no longer be a historical footnote. GET TICKETS*Sponsored by the Kurt & Tessye Simon Fund for Holocaust Remembrance.

Michiana Jewish Film FestivalDirected by Daniel RobbinsWith Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff "Method Man" Smith, David PaymerComedy, 84 minutes, DCPIn EnglishPreceded by a Short Film: No Harm Done (2024)When David and his fiance, Meg, gather for his family's traditional Shabbat dinner on New York's Upper West Side, things spiral faster than you can say "hamotzi" when an accidental death (or... murder?) derails the evening entirely. With Meg's devoutly Catholic parents due any moment to meet David's very Jewish family, soon Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. GET TICKETS

View the annual exhibition of the culminating thesis projects created by the students graduating with a BFA or BA Honors​ degree from the University of Notre Dame, Department of Art, Art History & Design. An opening reception will occur from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 30.  The show will run from April 30 through May 18, 2025. BFA CandidatesVictoria GillespieRosario MurilloSophia OchoaSamantha ScheidermanMarin Mowat BA Honors CandidatesPaulina RosilesTaylor Dellelce Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.

This exhibit commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War (1939-45) using primarily European visual sources recently acquired by Rare Books & Special Collections. It showcases more than 40 works on paper, including posters, maps, propaganda ephemera, and illustrated books, as well as photographs and first-hand accounts. The exhibit explores themes of Nazi racial ideology, the Holocaust, children in war, resistance, liberation, and memories of war. By examining images created for personal use and for state-sponsored propaganda, the exhibit presents a visual narrative of the war’s profound impact on individuals and societies, offering deeper insight into how this war was experienced and remembered. This exhibit is curated by Natasha Lyandres, Curator, Rare Books & Special Collections; Jean McManus, Catholic Studies Librarian, University Archives; and Julia Schneider, German Language and Literature and Italian Studies Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries. This and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment. All exhibits are free and open to the public during business hours. Related Events Monday, March 31, 4:30 pmLecture: Martina Cucchiara, “Fervent Faith, Relentless Persecution: The Daily Life of Erna Becker-Kohen, a Catholic of Jewish Descent in Nazi Germany” Thursday, April 10, 4:30 pmLecture: Robert M. Citino, "The Fascist Lair: the Battle of Berlin" Tuesday, April 22, 4:30 pmYom HaShoah Program to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust Exhibit Tours Meet and speak with curators of the spring exhibit, "Tragedies of War: Images of WWII in Print Visual Culture." Monday, March 31, 3:30 pmThursday, April 10, 3:30 pmTuesday, April 22, 3:30 pm

Michiana Jewish Film FestivalDirected by Sandi Simcha DubowskiDocumentary, 105 minutes, DCPIn English and Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitlesSabbath Queen, a feature documentary filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. Sabbath Queen joins Amichai on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, and stand up for peace, ceasefire, and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century. GET TICKETS *Sponsored by the Kurt & Tessye Simon Foundation of Temple Beth-El.