A Report from the Field

Our Jewish Studies Expansion Program (JSEP) site, Northeastern University, ran “Who Am I, Anyway?  A Conversation about Race, Religion, and Adoption,” with filmmaker Nicole Opper, director of the acclaimed documentary “Off and Running,” and Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation:  How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America.   It was held at Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline, Mass on Oct 25.  Our JSEP Fellow Claire Sufrin from Northeastern University gave the following report.

“The event was very successful–we had close to 100 people there, and they were actively engaged in with both Nicole and Adam Pertman. It was even hard to the group to stop asking questions in order to show more clips from the film. Afterward, people really lingered to chat and to talk to Nicole, a great sign. The audience was a real mix, including Northeastern students and some faculty, adoptive parents, adoptees, Jewish community members, etc. It seems that our publicity worked well and that the e-mails we sent were forwarded widely. Nicole, as you know, is a real delight and we also very much enjoyed spending time with her after the event.”

The JWA Blog raves here.