{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/6h4cn6zr3f/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Prass, Rabbi Joseph"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eRabbi Joseph Prass was interviewed on December 20, 2021 by Lindsay Resnick at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eRabbi Joseph William \"Joe\" Prass (1968- ) graduated from the University of Minnesota and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained in 1999. Rabbi Prass has served as a congregational rabbi for 20 years at Temple Emanu El in Houston, Texas, Congregation Shalom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Temple Emanu-El of Greater Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. Rabbi Prass also served as the regional director for NFTY (National Federation of Temple Youth) and has developed educational programs for all ages. Rabbi Prass was appointed Interim Director of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education in 2017 and was officially appointed to Director of the Center in 2019. Currently, Rabbi Prass serves as the congregational rabbi at Congregation Ner Tamid (Marietta, Ga.) as well as the Director of the Weinberg Center and Holocaust Educator at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, where he is responsible for bringing Holocaust education to synagogues, organizations, and schools.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Prass resides in Dunwoody, Georgia. He is married to Leslie Wise Prass and has three children, Hannah, Adam, and Jenna.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Rabbi Prass describing the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted his relationship to being Jewish. Rabbi Prass notes that Shabbat dinners with his family have been made possible due to the virtual nature of Friday night Shabbat services during the pandemic. He goes on to share the most interesting and most difficult things he has encountered during the pandemic. Rabbi Prass describes his experience with making virtual services meaningful and making connections to his congregations in different ways that he otherwise would in person.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Prass goes on to detail where he was in March 2020 when he realized the Coronavirus was serious and how it impacted his life routines. He goes on to share how the Breman Museum adapted to being virtual and how they adopted a real estate technology to give interactive and meaningful tours of the museum during the pandemic. Rabbi Prass also reflects on having two of his three children home during the pandemic and shares how they had to work around everyone’s virtual schooling and meetings. Rabbi Prass then recounts how COVID-19 affected the practice of Pesach in both 2020 and 2021. He shares how he and his family set up a large seder over Zoom and how that seder helped him practice for his congregation’s community seder.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Prass discusses how Judaism, Jewish history, and Jewish culture has been a resource for him during the pandemic. He recalls that praying for one hour every week really helped ground him and how doing bar and bat mitzvot over Zoom was an immense source of joy for both him and his congregation. He also notes how the pandemic affected their practice of the High Holy Days and discussed what it was like doing services at Congregation Ner Tamid. Rabbi Prass shares what it was like when his son tested positive for COVID-19 and how they navigated having him in the house while he was sick.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview shifts to cover the murder of George Floyd and Rabbi Prass’ reaction to the tragedy as a rabbi, a human being, and as a Minnesota native. Rabbi Prass shares that the murder made him look at Minneapolis with great sadness as the rioting and lootings were happening throughout the city in response to the murder. He reflects on the trip he and his family took to see the George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis in the summer of 2020. He talks about how his Jewish identity played a role in his understanding the actions relating to George Floyd and the general civil unrest. He discusses three Jewish values that he lives by and how they helped him make sense of what had happened and what needs to happen in the future.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Prass shares that the Holocaust survivors he works with at the Breman Museum give him hope during the pandemic and that he believes distance learning is a positive change that will persist after the pandemic passes. The interview closes with Rabbi Prass sharing a message to future generations.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28918"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2021-12-20 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Prass, Rabbi Joseph W., 1968- (personal name)","Floyd, George, 1973-2020 (personal name)","Lillian and A.J. Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education (corporate name)","William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum (Atlanta, Ga.) (corporate name)","Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) (corporate name)","Congregation Ner Tamid (Marietta, Ga.) (corporate name)","Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (corporate name)","Black Lives Matter (corporate name)","Minneapolis (Minn.) 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Rabbi Prass has served as a congregational rabbi for 20 years at Temple Emanu El in Houston, Texas, Congregation Shalom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Temple Emanu-El of Greater Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. Rabbi Prass also served as the regional director for NFTY (National Federation of Temple Youth) and has developed educational programs for all ages. Rabbi Prass was appointed Interim Director of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education in 2017 and was officially appointed to Director of the Center in 2019. Currently, Rabbi Prass serves as the congregational rabbi at Congregation Ner Tamid (Marietta, Ga.) as well as the Director of the Weinberg Center and Holocaust Educator at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, where he is responsible for bringing Holocaust education to synagogues, organizations, and schools.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Prass resides in Dunwoody, Georgia. He is married to Leslie Wise Prass and has three children, Hannah, Adam, and Jenna.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with Rabbi Prass describing the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted his relationship to being Jewish. Rabbi Prass notes that Shabbat dinners with his family have been made possible due to the virtual nature of Friday night Shabbat services during the pandemic. He goes on to share the most interesting and most difficult things he has encountered during the pandemic. Rabbi Prass describes his experience with making virtual services meaningful and making connections to his congregations in different ways that he otherwise would in person.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Prass goes on to detail where he was in March 2020 when he realized the Coronavirus was serious and how it impacted his life routines. He goes on to share how the Breman Museum adapted to being virtual and how they adopted a real estate technology to give interactive and meaningful tours of the museum during the pandemic. Rabbi Prass also reflects on having two of his three children home during the pandemic and shares how they had to work around everyone\u0026rsquo;s virtual schooling and meetings. Rabbi Prass then recounts how COVID-19 affected the practice of Pesach in both 2020 and 2021. He shares how he and his family set up a large seder over Zoom and how that seder helped him practice for his congregation\u0026rsquo;s community seder.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Prass discusses how Judaism, Jewish history, and Jewish culture has been a resource for him during the pandemic. He recalls that praying for one hour every week really helped ground him and how doing bar and bat mitzvot over Zoom was an immense source of joy for both him and his congregation. He also notes how the pandemic affected their practice of the High Holy Days and discussed what it was like doing services at Congregation Ner Tamid. Rabbi Prass shares what it was like when his son tested positive for COVID-19 and how they navigated having him in the house while he was sick.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview shifts to cover the murder of George Floyd and Rabbi Prass\u0026rsquo; reaction to the tragedy as a rabbi, a human being, and as a Minnesota native. Rabbi Prass shares that the murder made him look at Minneapolis with great sadness as the rioting and lootings were happening throughout the city in response to the murder. He reflects on the trip he and his family took to see the George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis in the summer of 2020. He talks about how his Jewish identity played a role in his understanding the actions relating to George Floyd and the general civil unrest. He discusses three Jewish values that he lives by and how they helped him make sense of what had happened and what needs to happen in the future.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Prass shares that the Holocaust survivors he works with at the Breman Museum give him hope during the pandemic and that he believes distance learning is a positive change that will persist after the pandemic passes. The interview closes with Rabbi Prass sharing a message to future generations.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Today is December 20, 2021. My name is Lindsay\nResnick. I'm interviewing Rabbi Joseph Prass of the Weinberg Center, the\nDirector of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education here at the [William]\nBreman [Jewish History] Museum. He is also the congregational rabbi at\nCongregation Ner Tamid in Marietta, Kennesaw, Georgia. We are here to discuss\nwhat it means to be Jewish during the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"era of COVID-19. This is the Collecting\nThese Times Pandemic Collecting Initiative in cooperation with the Council of\nAmerican Jewish Museums. Thank you, Rabbi Joe, I appreciate you coming out and,\nyou know, walking over here from the other side of the museum.\n\nPRASS: It's my pleasure.\n\nRESNICK: To come and answer these questions for us. So, will you give me, if you\nfeel comfortable --\n\nPRASS: Of course.\n\nRESNICK: -- your full name, your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"age, and where you reside currently.\n\nPRASS: My age, I am 53, 54 next month. I reside in Dunwoody, Georgia.\n\nRESNICK: Okay, great. Can you describe the ways the pandemic has shifted your\nrelationship to being Jewish?\n\nPRASS: It's an interesting question. As a rabbi I'm not sure it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"has shifted my\nrelationship, I think it's availed me of different opportunities, made me aware\nof different questions. By that, you know, with my relationship, it has allowed\nme to do certain things. As a congregational rabbi I'm always in the\ncongregation on Friday night, even with my position at Congregation Ner Tamid,\nthat being part time, but I'm there every other Friday. So, to do a Friday night\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dinner has always been difficult my entire rabbinic career. Now, and I think\nwe'll talk about it in a little bit, is, you know, as I was doing services from\nhome via Zoom, as so many were doing, I could do services in one room and walk\nover and have a nice dinner and make Shabbat at home. That actually allowed me\nsome opportunities in that way, that it availed, it allowed me in some ways,\nsome time to reflect. You know, as much as we were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"working very hard during\nCOVID and during remote working, it allowed me to explore some other learning\nopportunities to say, when, for the museum piece of my position, that we didn't\nhave a whole lot of tours at different times. Even when we had virtual tours,\nthe time was a little more condensed. So, I spent my time learning and reading\nand reflecting. In those areas, I was able to broaden ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my understanding of\nJudaism. I don't think it necessarily made me feel more Jewish or less Jewish,\nbut certainly I was able to become more knowledgeable on certain subjects during\nthat time.\n\nRESNICK: What do you think has been most interesting or most difficult about\nthis period with relation to you Judaism or not?\n\nPRASS: So, for me, Judaism has always been about being in community and so, this\ntime of pandemic has ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really made it very hard to connect with people. That, you\nknow, just to be able to have those causal conversations to check in with\npeople, your Friday night regulars in the synagogue world, here in the museum\nare docents that, you know, just to say, \"How are you doing?\" and someone will,\nwhen we're at a luncheon for a while will casually say, \"Oh, you know, I've been\na little sick,\" or \"Oh, my daughter is experiencing health problems.\" Now,\npeople don't usually always call up and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say, \"By the way, I want to make you\naware of something that I normally would've just dropped in conversation at the\noneg or something after it.\" So, really feeling that sense of knowing what's\ngoing on has been very difficult for so many. For me, experiencing my Judaism,\nit was a real learning curve. As much as I'm being interviewed now, to be in a\nroom and trying to have energy for a screen, you know, also to have for much of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the services, to have one or two people in a home living room or something else\nto try to convey that energy across the camera was hard. When I'm in front of\npeople you get that energy. \"Let's all sing this song.\" We're all going to sing\nthis song. I'm going to sing this song to no one other than myself and the room,\nhow do you feel about that, you know? It's kind of like singing in the shower.\nIt's fun but is it meaningful? 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How do you allow people to\ninterrupt each other and the like, as well as . . . so those were challenges.\nThere were some good things too for some of our homebound people and some of our\ncollege students, they were able to Zoom in for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"services. For the museum, we\nwere able to increase the reach, and so that was very empowering with those type\nof things. You know, one, normally Weber [School] could come to a program, and\nwe could fill the auditorium with 300 people. There were 300 people in Atlanta\n[Georgia]. For one speaker, we had people from east coast, west coast, and in\naddition, if I remember right, eight or nine different countries were able to\nZoom in. So, this has been both ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"challenging for the person who is usually\ntalking but empowering in some ways to be able to deliver services for those who\nwish to consume it in this way.\n\nRESNICK: It's interesting that you say about not getting that feedback from the\naudience. I've heard that from other rabbis that we've interviewed in this, and\nalso from people such as stand-up comedians and other people that, for lack of a\nbetter term, \"perform\" in front of an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"audience and how difficult that has been\nto, because that's part of what draws you to this position, particularly as a\ncongregational rabbi, is to be in front of a group of people.\n\nPRASS: Right.\n\nRESNICK: So, it's interesting that you say that. I think we already went over\nthe next question, so, where were you back in March 2020 when you realized the\nCoronavirus was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to be serious? How did it impact your life routines?\n\nPRASS: So, I'll start with my position here at the Breman Museum. That's my\nfull-time position and that was where, you know, it was sort of, I think as we\nall sort of experienced, well who's the decision maker in this, you know? I\nthink I'll leave it to others to critique the government response at this time,\nbut there was clearly a muddled ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"government response when it comes to that. But\nas soon as we saw, from here, where \"Wait a minute. School district after school\ndistrict is cancelling the trips. As a matter of fact, wait a minute, school\ndistrict after school district is closing down,\" you know, \"This is something\nserious.\" You know, as someone who grew up in the north and who has been in\nAtlanta, snow. We're panicking and we close down for snow, but we're going to\nreopen. You know, I even lived in Houston [Texas], there's a hurricane coming,\nwe're going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"evacuate, but we're coming back. Everyone was saying, I even saw\nsome old emails, you know, \"We're closing down for a couple weeks, but we look\nforward to seeing you in about 45 days out, at the end of April.\" Pretty quickly\nwe realized there's no end in sight to this, you know. Looking at some of the\ngraphs saying this is not just coming up and going away, this is pretty much\nhere. For me, I think it really was seeing that, and as a parent seeing my\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"students, my own personal children who were at that time a senior in high\nschool, a freshman in high school, and my daughter would've been I believe a\nsophomore or a junior, a junior in college. You know, so very personally\naffected me not even so much professionally, very quickly, very, very quickly, I\nthink. It was really, I think, in early April, as we began to see major things\nlike we're just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cancelling the rest of the year. As a matter of fact, because we\ncancelled the rest of the year, the criteria that we were doing, both at the\nmuseum and for my synagogue, you know, we went off-line, excuse me, online, we\nclosed the doors, and we had a couple of people there. It really, I think there\nwas phase one of \"This is here to stay.\" Then really over the late summer as\nwe're looking to the new year is that \"This isn't changing. Matter of fact,\nwe're hunkering down ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for the whole year.\" I think those were some of my earliest\nmemories. Then, of course, learning to adapt, you know, for synagogues, Zoom\nservices. For the museum, we had to reinvent how we would deliver services, our\nproduct, not religious services, but the services of our museum. How do you tour\na museum when you can't tour the museum? How do we recreate those kinds of things?\n\nRESNICK: I think that you guys did an amazing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"job doing the virtual services, or\nthe virtual tours --\n\nPRASS: Tours.\n\nRESNICK: If you could tell us a little bit more about that, I'd love to hear it.\n\nPRASS: Sure. So, we were looking around and looking at what everyone else was\ndoing and, in truth, everyone was scrambling, I think, whether it was schools,\nor museums, or anyone, you know. Very quickly what was a small company, Zoom, we\nall used to Skype, or we FaceTime, Zoom came out of nowhere and suddenly was,\nyou know, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Teams and some of these other things, but video communication was\nrevolutionary. So, the museum, for example, that's old, I'm sure you've heard\nother rabbis talk about Zoom services. For me it was a little different, maybe\nwe'll talk about that. For the museum, what we did is happened upon a technology\nthat is really used for real estate, showing real estate. We found ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"someone who\nhad been using it in a couple small museums. What it does is it's very much like\nGoogle Maps where you click a button, and you move forward a few feet, you click\nanother button, you move forward a few feet. You can rotate in 360 degrees and\nlook at any wall. So, this one person we contracted with was able to come in and\ntook a stationary camera and put it about every five feet throughout our entire\ngallery. We'd step out of the way, she'd push a button, it would take a\n360-degree picture. So, in that way she was able to map it. Then, this\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"technology for real estate is then you can have pop-ups. Well, what we did is we\ntook the pictures that are used by 90 percent of our docents, we have hundreds\nand hundreds of pictures in our gallery, we took the most frequently used\nexhibits, examples, and we got high resolution scans of them. So, as you're\nwalking through you can see all these, but you can click on one and suddenly\nfills the whole screen. In that manner, what we're able to do through Zoom is I\ncan share screen number two, I can be Zooming, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can give a guided tour, the\nchildren can ask me questions. I can say, \"Let me go back to that picture.\" By\nscrolling in and out I can even zoom in on a wall if I don't have a pop-up\npicture. So, our gallery is completely accessible to anyone who has a computer\nand anyone who is a docent can guide them through. It's a little bit of practice\nlike driving a car, takes a little bit of practice, but we have our gallery and\nwe've applied it to several of our other galleries so that when someone can't\ncome, we have the ability to give them a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tour. In some ways it also memorializes\nsome of the other galleries that were up and now are gone, and yet they still\nare in cyberspace for us.\n\nRESNICK: Yeah!\n\nPRASS: So, that's an interesting one.\n\nRESNICK: I think it's just a fantastic technology and I think our museum, thanks\nto your work, has really been at the forefront of some of those kinds of\ntechnological changes.\n\nPRASS: Exactly, and I don't want to toot our own horn, but, you know, what I\nwant to say is what some other galleries did, some other museums did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is clearly\nyou can create a PowerPoint, share a PowerPoint, and that's fine, that's great.\nMatter of fact, that's how we started and we're like, \"Well, we're just giving a\nlecture. There's not that, for the students, that three dimensional if they're\nmoving through something. We could videotape, we could create a little movie of\nour own gallery,\" which some museums did, and that's great. Some museums\ncreated, they moved around and then on the computer they stop it, they pause it,\nthey start it, and all of that, but that's one tour. The beauty of what we've\ngot it we can do anything we want, as if you're walking through the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gallery. You\nknow, someone says, \"I want to talk about that back a few, what you started\nwith.\" I just move the, like you would with Google Maps, you just move back to\nthat spot, \"Let me talk about that again.\" So, thank you. We're really proud of\nit. It is incredibly versatile.\n\nRESNICK: So, back to the beginning of the pandemic --\n\nPRASS: Yes!\n\nRESNICK: You mentioned you have three children.\n\nPRASS: Yep.\n\nRESNICK: Were they all living in your house during that time?\n\nPRASS: During ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that time, at the beginning, two out of the three. Two were in\nhigh school, one was in college. Yes, she was, yeah, so during the spring of\n2020, my oldest daughter was on campus, still living on campus. Over the summer\nshe had already planned to move home. She's now a teacher, now that we're at\nthis point, and she's into her student teaching. As we discussed it, a student\nteacher should be working 40 hours a week and it would actually be on our side\nof town, so we said, \"Come, stay at home, save us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all a lot of money, and do\nyour student teaching.\" Little did we know she would be doing student teaching\nfrom one room in the house, I would be doing all my remote officing from another\nroom, and my youngest daughter would be doing, studying as a sophomore that\nentire year upstairs. So, yes, two out of the three started, next year I had two\nout of the three, we just traded. One went off to college.\n\nRESNICK: It just must have been, in your house, it must have been very\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"different. Everybody had to get used to having their whole family together or\nalmost your whole family together, living and working 24 hours a day in the same house.\n\nPRASS: It was very different. It was very, very different. Initially in that\nspring when everything was closing down before we figured out everything, my\nwife was there as well. Her job, you know, sent her remote as well. So, you\nknow, there were four of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"us who were living at home, and then again, we traded\naround and then we all started to figure out how to go back to our jobs, but\nyeah, a little bit of stir craziness initially. I will say because I didn't\nthink it was going to last as long, we were a little more diligent about like,\n\"Let's get out for an afternoon walk. Let's get to do this.\" As the world began\nto adapt, and I was just reflecting on this, now that we're even back full-time\nmore or less at the museum and at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue, you know, we'd go for afternoon\nwalks because, \"Let's take advantage of this, because it's not gong to last\nforever.\" Well, then forever led to six months, led to a year, led to about 14\nor so months before we really started coming back. I fell off the quite the\nhealthy activities, but it was different. It was also different that all of our\nschedules when we were online for remote learning, you know the high schools\nturned to some remote learning, they certainly got it better the following year,\nbut there was quiet ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time because if this one isn't in class, this one's in\nclass. If this one and this one aren't in class, I might be having a meeting of\nsome sort so it was very different. Come five o'clock or for them, the students,\nat like 3:30, there was sort of a release, you know. We can stop being quiet and\ntiptoeing around the house and knocking the background of each other's video shots.\n\nRESNICK: Yeah. I, as you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know, I didn't have to deal with that because I was\ncompletely alone. It was, hearing it from everybody, it's just, it's crazy just --\n\nPRASS: What I will say, I'm sorry, no, no, please finish, but I want to --\n\nRESNICK: No, I didn't really have anything else.\n\nPRASS: What I will say about that is, you know, it did make me, I think we\nalways need to be grateful for what we had, and I certainly was aware of, as\nsomeone who lives in Dunwoody here in a suburb of Atlanta, when I would take a\nphone call, I know for some of my colleagues and for others, for some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of my\nclass, excuse me, my children's classmates as well was that they were in much\nsmaller spaces. I don't live in a mansion, but I live in a regular house, and I\ncould take a phone call and I know some people were, you know, two people in a\ntwo-bedroom apartment, that was very hard for some people. Also, someone who was\none person in a two-bedroom apartment, still you can only walk so far. I had the\nopportunity to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sit in my backyard. I would have the opportunity to take my cell\nphone calls when I could walk around my yard, I could walk around my house as\nlong as I didn't disrupt my children who were in their classes. But there was\nthat opportunity to at least be able to move around a little bit without\nactually leaving my house. I know anyone, but even, I gotta remember back then\nyou couldn't go to a coffee house, you couldn't really go anywhere else, so our\nspaces were very limited. I do want to say that was one thing that helped keep\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sanity, at least for the kind of person I am, moving, and I couldn't sit\nstill. So, like, I can only walk up and down in this room for this phone call so\noften. I could, I did some laps in the cul de sac a few times taking phone calls.\n\nRESNICK: Yeah. I should point out for the viewer or listener of this interview\nthat, again, it is December of 2021, and this pandemic is still going on.\n\nPRASS: Yep!\n\nRESNICK: Unfortunately, we are currently in the middle of a wave called the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Omicron wave.\n\nPRASS: Right.\n\nRESNICK: So, I know Rabbi Joe mentioned, you know, at the beginning you thought,\n\"Oh, how long is this actually going to last?\" We'll, it's been almost two years\nnow and it's still going on, so I wanted to point that out for whoever may be\nlistening to this in the future.\n\nPRASS: Thank you. Thank you. That's very important.\n\nRESNICK: Okay, back to the questions. So, in 2020, this all happened right\nbefore Pesach. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did this affect your practice of Pesach?\n\nPRASS: It's a great question. In some ways, it was difficult and in other ways,\nit created an opportunity. So, in that first year, and then we repeated it so\nthat would be in Pesach 2020, and we repeated it a little bit in 2021, but in\n2020 with a little more gusto. Everyone felt locked down and as, for me, I'm one\nof ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"four children, but we're all over the United States. So, to the point here is\nwe're already, for me, I was already doing services online, you know, putting\nwords on the screen to do all of that. I apologize, I thought that . . . you\ndon't want that going off here. There we go. We were putting words on the\nscreen, for me it's very important as a rabbi, I know some synagogues they were\nbusy trying to get their services online and the rabbi was simply ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"saying, \"Feel\nfree to follow along,\" but they didn't necessarily have the prayer books or\nothers. As everything went along, every synagogue adapted as they wanted to, but\nfor me, I was already doing that. So, my brother-in-law and I reached out to\neach other and said, \"For the family in Minneapolis [Minnesota], we're all not\ndoing Zoom. We're getting better at Zoom. What about doing a community,\" excuse\nme, \"a first seder for the family? And what about,\" for my brother-in-law, \"I\nlike your family, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"let's invite them too.\" He's one of three siblings and of\ncourse his parents. Then for my other brother, we invited his in-laws and so on\nand so on, and then some extended cousins that we don't normally see.\n\nRESNICK: Wow!\n\nPRASS: So, our \"seder table\" which we used to be able to do when we were all\ncloser together, coming from the Midwest, we, even then we had 25 or so people\njust around for the immediate family. My children are one of 12 cousins, me and\nmy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"siblings and their spouses, my parents. But for this one we were able to have\naround, if I remember right, about 55 people on the video conference.\n\nRESNICK: Wow.\n\nPRASS: Everyone set up in their own houses, a big TV at the end and a laptop so\nwe could see each other's tables. So, we were able to do that and, I'm not the\nonly rabbi in my family, just for posterity's sake, my younger brother is a\nrabbi, his wife, my sister-in-law is a cantor, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so we all sort of helped to lead\nit. I just facilitated it from my end. But we had from California to New York to\nChicago [Illinois] to Minneapolis to Atlanta, we were all able to do it. So, how\ndid it affect it? It felt almost, it felt very novel, it actually felt very fun\nto be able to see everyone at that time. Zoom was still very new. As an aside,\nnot related to this, but as a former ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"camp counselor and unit head and assistant\ncamp director in my past, some of my former campers decided, \"We want to have a\nreunion!\" and we had a reunion one night. We played some games and stuff, and it\nwas delightful. Zoom has sort of lost its luster, it's now a utility for all of\nus, and it's a fine utility. But I remember early on in those days. So, we did\nthat and then for my congregation it's a tradition to have a second seder. So,\nwe did, it was kind of nice, I basically prepped for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two different seders, but I\ndid one preparation for doing this. Night one I tried it out on my family, night\ntwo, I did it for my synagogue. Like I said before, the only difference is that,\nyou know, \"Let's all sing Dayenu,\" well, all you can really hear because of how\nZoom bumps into each other is sometimes we'd hear this household, sometimes we'd\nhear that household for a line. It didn't quite work so we've, no communal\nsinging on Zoom. But it was fun! It was nice. We did it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"again, by the way, for\nmy synagogue because, as history will show, the vaccine started rolling out in\nearly 2021, but by the time Passover rolled around again, we did the, you know,\njust basically pulled out the PowerPoint both for my family, little smaller this\ntime around because now others were doing it, and so, some of my\nbrother-in-law's family they did their own Zoom seder, but we still weren't able\nto gather together, so we did it, lovely. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For my congregation, we did it. Now,\nin December of 2021 with Omicron, I hate to say that the curves are going in a\nway, history will bear it out, but already people are saying, \"Oh my goodness,\nare we going to have to go back online again very soon?\" So, I hope that answers\nthat question.\n\nRESNICK: Yes! How has Judaism, Jewish history, or Jewish culture been a resource\nfor you during the pandemic?\n\nPRASS: For ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me . . .\n\nRESNICK: If it has.\n\nPRASS: Well, it has as a source of sometimes inspiration, I have to say for me,\nleading services has been always empowering and I really enjoy being able to\nconnect with my community and my congregation. So, that's really been nice.\nJudaism says, you know, Shabbat is a moment, excuse me, a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day out of time, and\nservices is an hour out of the regular week for the Friday night and Saturday\nand all of that. For me, it has really been great. I am not good at meditating,\nI'm horrible at meditating. Try and clear your mind, I begin thinking about\nevery list in the book. But to be able to say, \"For one hour a week I am going\nto pray, I'm going to think about my tradition,\" has been an incredible source\nof calming. Matter of fact, just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this past week, it was a chaotic week and we're\nback in person, but I was able to, you know, I was leading services, and I was\nlike, \"This is just what I needed.\" So, it was Judaism in that way has been that\nI get a time to mark and to sort of break up the week. It's also been very\nhelpful for me is that as we've come out of the pandemic to be involved in\nfamily's lives, to have done bar and bat mitzvah, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some over Zoom, for us, by the\nway, Zoom meant, I know every synagogue probably has it a little differently,\nwhat we did is we did services in the Synagogue with only a dozen people maximum\nand very spread out in our sanctuaries so it was as safe as possible, but to be\nable to help people through these life cycle events. That was been just an\nimmense source of joy that ripples after that.\n\nRESNICK: How did the pandemic ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"affect your practice of the High Holy Days?\n\nPRASS: That's a good question. That one, while the other services, Friday night\nservices slowly worked into that and got comfortable with that. For the High\nHoly Days, it was much more challenging, it was much more challenging. It very\nmuch felt like, having been interviewed for something like this, I've certainly\nbeen interviewed in TV studios, going into the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue, because most of my\nFriday night services we did at home, unlike some of the big synagogues, my IT\nperson was my 16-year-old daughter. Every single Friday night for, from, I think\nwe went actually from April 1st until, April 1st of 2020 until July 1st of 2021,\nmy youngest daughter, Jenna, was there operating the Zoom and the PowerPoint\nsimultaneously. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then there would be times where if we had bar mitzvah kids who\nwere training, we would, just like everyone knows with Zoom, we're now going to\nbring them in. We did webinar style.\n\nRESNICK: Oh, okay.\n\nPRASS: So, we're going to bring in so and so, \"Okay, turn on your camera, lead\nus in this prayer. Thank you. We're going to send you back out.\" She would do\nall of that. The temple president would come in and give the announcements. All\nthose kinds of things. At home I felt like, \"Okay, this is sort of what we're\ndoing.\" When I went into the sanctuary for High Holy Days, we needed the Torahs,\nthe ambiance. I didn't feel like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wanted to lead it from home. We also invited\na few members of the congregation, very small, to do a couple of the aliyot and\nto deliver certain congregational messages, every congregation has around the\nHigh Holy Days, a presidential address, certain other appeals, and the like. So,\nthen, that sort of took it away, I got used to being in the house. High Holy\nDays I'm in my white robe, I have this room, but then I have these bright lights\non me. I have a camera right in front of me and over the camera I see a few of\nmy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"congregants. Over on the one side I've got a table with TVs and monitor and\nall that. Off to my righthand I've got monitors right next to the usual lectern\nI've got. Even when we did it, so what we did is we were reading Torah and we\ndecided we need to make this more personal. So, I actually had another, we had\nan additional Torah set up off to the side and my wife, who can read Hebrew, as\nI'm reading Hebrew in the Torah, we had a second camera focusing on that. 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For me, I remember that first High Holy Days, it was\nvery hard to now raise the energy level to see there's my daughter, and with\nall, like I said, I love my daughter and she was great, but come the sermons,\nusually when we're in the congregation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she pays attention, or she at least\nsmiles. During the other times, she was bored as anything, as any 16-year-old\nmight be when they hear their dad giving a sermon. My other children who were\nthere, a little bored, they didn't have to act on their best behavior, and it\nwasn't hurtful to me, it's just that, \"Alright, we'll just listen out of one ear\nand gaze around during the rest of the time,\" when we're doing that. The High\nHoly Days were a little more difficult for I think for all rabbis. You feel this\nis the big ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time and we got used to Friday night being intimate, spiritual,\nmeaningful. How do you translate the big grandeur of the High Holy Days to the\nlittle itty-bitty screen? Also knowing that some people are on iPads, some\npeople are on this. So, we utilized a little the opportunity for people to use\nthe chat function, to be able to respond, but still, it was very challenging in\nthe first year. In the second year, for us, we were still hybrid, I think as\nmany congregations probably ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were, because we weren't quite everyone vaccinated\nand what do we do? So, that, the High Holy Days were a challenge. I admit that, yeah.\n\nRESNICK: Did anyone in your household contract COVID-19?\n\nPRASS: We did. My son did get it. My son, who is my middle child, he was a\nfreshman at the university, this would be, sorry, there was the spring where we\nall started, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"COVID began, then there was this, the following year in the fall of\n2020, he went off to college. He spent, even though they said, \"Classes will be\nin person. We'll ask students to be masked. There will be testing protocols,\"\nand all of this, in the end, because they gave the professors the option of,\n\"Well, if you're not comfortable, you can do most of your classes online.\" Well,\n100 percent of his professors decided to go online. So, he was on campus in a\nten-by-ten-foot dorm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"room on campus, and as college kids will do, he socialized.\nWe're glad he had a social life when he was on campus. When he came, was coming,\ngoing to stay with us for the Thanksgiving through winter break, they sort of\ncombined that, they didn't want them to go home for Thanksgiving and come back\nand go home. So, they basically said, \"Get everything in, we'll do exams online\nand the dorms will be closed.\" My wife and I thought, \"It might be prudent since\nyou've been hanging out, acting like a typical college ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kid, just get one of\nthose tests. You know, go down, get one of those free tests.\" He came home and\nas he's on his way he got his results. It was positive. So, he came home. We\nsaid, \"Okay!\" The irony is, by the way, the college, if you tested positive,\nthey didn't really have any protocols and they were closed down anyways, so we\ncouldn't exactly say, \"For the safety of the household,\" not that we would have,\n\"go back to campus. You're staying home.\" As luck would have it, where his\nbedroom ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is, his bedroom is on the landing like some houses have, and there's a\nbathroom right next to it. We actually, what we decided was, \"If you feel good,\"\nand he didn't feel bad, so, \"What we're going to do though, we don't want to\nbreathe the same air.\" So, what we did is I took clear cloth, clear plastic like\nyou would for drop cloths, taped it to the ceiling, taped it to the walls,\npatted it down on the floor, and he could go from his bedroom to the bathroom,\nhis bedroom to the bathroom, it was just right around the corner. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had him\nisolate for whatever the protocol was, about seven to ten days. We were all home\nanyway because I'm working from home, so we could be there. It wouldn't be like,\n\"Well, how am I going to eat if you all go to work and school?\" I was stuck at\nhome so when I made lunch, he got a lunch slid underneath his plastic wrap.\n\nRESNICK: Like he's in prison!\n\nPRASS: He was, it was like of like he was in prison or, you know, for some of\nthe older folks there was a movie in the 1970s, The Boy in the Bubble --\n\nRESNICK: Yeah!\n\nPRASS: You know, so for his sake and our sake, and at the end, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he never really\nhad any, actually he never had any symptoms, period.\n\nRESNICK: Oh, wow.\n\nPRASS: So, he was great, he was fine. He was bored and it was fine. He played on\nhis computer, and he did his work, his exams, a few weeks later. Other than\nthat, no, he was the only one that got actually infected. I will say, you know,\nwe have had, as all families have had, heated exposure scares and stuff like\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. Once again, clarity, we, you know, I think only now about 18 months later\ndo we actually even have clarity like you have to wait so many days and that's\nwhen you can test, and then the speed of which the tests are going to happen. We\ndid have one exposure and we were going to be taking great precautions, but we\nneeded to visit a family member. So, we had to delay that trip, we took the\ntest, a 24-hour ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"test turned into a 48-hour test turned into a three- or four-day\ntest in the end. That was earlier on in the pandemic. We've been lucky so far.\nWe've been very, very lucky.\n\nRESNICK: Yes. Actually, in my family, the first person to have tested positive\nwith COVID at all, it just happened on Saturday, two days ago during this\nOmicron variant.\n\nPRASS: We're a little concerned, you know, because we're all back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in this and,\nyou know, what to do, especially because we are leaving the houses. Right now,\nwe're interviewing this in the last weeks of December so we'll sort of all be\nhunkered down together, but should someone get it, you know, it's how do you\nfeed them? How do you keep them, you know, like I said, for Adam, when it\nhappened, we were all around the house so we could take care of him. If this\nhappens now, it's kind of hard. \"Just stay in your bedroom or stay in your\nbedroom or bathroom. If you get hungry, we'll leave you a few snacks down here.\"\nIt's like leaving a puppy at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"home, I guess. It's family. So, we're concerned.\nWe've been vaccinated, double vaccinated-\n\nRESNICK: Boosted.\n\nPRASS: For us, just because of weird schedules, we all have appointments to get,\nfour out of the five of us have appointments to get the booster very shortly.\n\nRESNICK: Okay, changing the, changing topics a little bit --\n\nPRASS: Of course!\n\nRESNICK: I know, I personally know, I don't think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you've mentioned it, but you\nare from Minneapolis, Minnesota --\n\nPRASS: Yes.\n\nRESNICK: Originally, and I know a lot of your family is still there, which you\ndid mention earlier. When you heard about the murder of George Floyd back in\nJune of 2020 and the resulting Black Lives Matter protests, what was your\nreaction as a rabbi, as a human being, and as a person from that area where it happened?\n\nPRASS: That's a great question. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So many things, so many things. Let me try to be\na succinct as possible. You know, look, as a human being and as a rabbi, I was\nso, so sad about it. That there are confusing situations where police get\ninvolved all the time, you know, and it is unclear, in particular with the, you\nknow, there's one that's working its way through the court system actually right\nnow of another situation in Minneapolis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that happened shortly thereafter. In\nthis particular case, to see the video, where today anyone can pull out their\ncell phone and see someone be on someone's neck, an officer put a knee to\nsomeone's neck for, as I recall, an excess of eight minutes plus. I was sad. I\nwas sad for my city. There is, you know, Minnesota likes to have, we have our\nofficial slogans, The Land of 10,000 Lakes, we also have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Minnesota Nice.\nMinnesota has always impressed me as a friendly community. It really caused me\nto look at my city with great sadness as areas, as riots were happening\nthroughout the city, as areas were being burned. I knew every single one of\nthose areas, every single one of those. I had gone to some of the business that\nwere burned down, I had driven past, I think, again, every single one of them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nlived in Minneapolis until I was 22, and this was my side of town as well, that\nwhen I saw pictures, my family showed me pictures of certain areas of commerce\nright near where my mother and my sister, who still live in Minneapolis, and\ntheir families, my sister's family and my mother still live, and this was\nblocks, blocks away. So, as I'm sad, I'm also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"scared for my family is my honest\nanswer, which made me really have to think about, you know, in my fear and my\nanger at people for destroying things near my family's house, \"Don't be angry at\nthem for the anger they're feeling at an injustice.\" But I have to say, it was\nvery conflicted feelings --\n\nRESNICK: Of course.\n\nPRASS: You know, hearing about a business that I knew about that had been burnt\ndown. Restaurants that I had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"visited looted and destroyed. One of the places\nthat I saw people stealing, they broke into a Target, they were just stealing\nthings. Once again, too, I think as a thinking individual, what that police\nofficer did and the anger that might have been felt at an unjust system, looting\nand stealing have nothing to do with that, by the way. Then to, after you've\nlooted it, to then set fire to businesses, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"likewise. To me, as a sane human\nbeing, that is not how you effect change. So, there's a lot of conflicting\nemotions. So, there was that. I also, you know, in preaching to my congregation,\nbecause here in Atlanta, my congregation is in the suburbs, I live in a\ndifferent suburb, but we were seeing those same types of riots for George Floyd\nand some subsequent activities that happened here in Atlanta as well over the\ncourse of summer, very quickly spill ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over, in trying to find the words to\nconsole my congregation, to find hope in the middle of this. So, that was\nchallenging. The other thing I would say is it was, I'm blanking on which summer\nit was, it was the follow summer? No, it was that summer that I went up to\nMinneapolis. We actually drove up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"late in the summer and wanted the family, we\nall talked about it, and we wanted to go where George Floyd had died in front of\nthis convenience store. This one intersection in South Minneapolis has a\nmakeshift memorial, it's huge. It's about 20-feet tall as I remember, a face of\nGeorge Floyd. The streets are painted with incredible poetry and the like,\nindividuals as you walk ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in during COVID, there's actual volunteers, they're not\nby any organization, simply say, \"I work for a museum, who do you work for?\"\nThey're like \"We don't work for anyone, we're just here to pay tribute to this\nspot.\" Some of them tended gardens that were made in the middle of the streets.\nThere were others who had washing and sanitizing stations. We're in the middle\nof COVID so people could visit this site and it was very almost surreal. As a\nJew ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I visited many ancient sites in Israel, and the Ministry of Tourism does\nthat very well. As a museum professional, I visit other museums. Great\nprotocols. In some ways it was like visiting something that one day might become\na museum. Actually, now, months later, I do know that the city of Minneapolis is\ntrying to say, \"Look, you can't take up two blocks this way, two blocks this\nway. It just doesn't work. We need to figure out how to maybe, there was this\ngas station that was burnt down, can we move the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"memorial over here? We'll level\nthe gas station, the remnants of this gas station or over here there's a\nbeautiful city park, can we move the permanent pieces over here? We just can't\ngive up in perpetuity two square blocks of streets.\" So, it was very personal.\nThat's my answer and for me, I saw places, for me I was trying to comfort\npeople, and I felt compelled to want to go with my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"three children, we were up\nthere, again, youngest was 16, to visit this and to sort of look and reflect.\n\nRESNICK: It's interesting, I did not know about this permanent, or\nsemi-permanent memorial --\n\nPRASS: Semi-permanent, right, yeah.\n\nRESNICK: -- that's happening right now. It's interesting that something, even\nthough it's slightly chaotic, something so beautiful kind of could come out of\nsomething so tragic.\n\nPRASS: And you're right. There really was beauty, there was really\nintrospection. You know, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"look, the city, the government, and all that, that's a\ndifferent story, that's politics, that's institutions, and I do know they're\nreflecting and they're trying to change. What I will say is just that public, it\nwas gorgeous, and I was compelled to take pictures and the like when I was\nthere, so yeah.\n\nRESNICK: How has your Jewish identity played a role in your understanding the\nactions of these recent events?\n\nPRASS: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, that's a beautiful question. With George, related to George Floyd --\n\nRESNICK: Yes.\n\nPRASS: -- and civil unrest --\n\nRESNICK: And the, yes, the protests.\n\nPRASS: Is, you know, it goes back to, I think, this idea that's in the Torah,\nb'tzelem Elohim, that we're all created in the image of God, and that whether\nwe, the color of our skin, the shape of our bodies, male, female, who we chose\nto ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"love, this has certainly been, I don't want to say evolving, just it is part\nof what I have always learned and always studied. I think in the year 2021,\nabout to be 2022 in two weeks here, that this idea how people accept others, and\nhow people can't accept others, is one piece of my Judaism that I'm constantly\ntrying to figure out, trying to apply. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Looking at, you know, where people say,\n\"Well, what was once acceptable in the 50s or the 60s or the 70s or the 80s,\nwell, we're not there.\" As a society, we're growing, and we're constantly seeing\nmore and more of, I'm sorry, we're not seeing, we've always seen it, but we're\nfocusing more and more on the diversity and the divine that is in all of us. I\nbelieve that as a rabbi. The other thing that I believe is in some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cases is,\nit's two more things, and I, again, these are sermons I try to think about for\nmy congregation, is we all make mistakes. We all make mistakes. In the case of\nGeorge Floyd, someone on the neck of another individual, the officer on the neck\nof an individual for minutes and minutes on end when something else could have\nbeen done to restrain this person, that is not a mistake. That is not a mistake.\nPeople wantonly destroying, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that is not a mistake. I think there are other cases\nthat I have seen that have been sparked because of this, you know, snowballing\neffect of truly egregious crimes, because people have been convicted so I guess\nI can use that word, of officers who were convicted of crimes against civilians.\nThere are other cases where it's very grey. I don't even begin to think I can\nunderstand what it's like being an officer. I don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think I could even begin to\nunderstand what it's like to be, I learned from one of our interns, an African\nAmerican who's stopped by police and understand what that feels like. Do people\nin those moments of tension, on both sides, make mistakes? Yes. So, in Judaism,\nwe believe you make mistakes, and the last part is Teshuvah, that we have to be\nable to change. So, as a society we need to change. We have to allow these\npeople to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say, \"That didn't go the way I thought.\" No one should ever lose their\nlife, no one should ever be harmed because of that. That's not a mistake, that\nis something else. But to say, \"Things weren't handled right and how can we as a\nsociety be better?\" Then as we look at the fourth value is Tikkun O'lam,\nrepairing the world. This world needs us to try and fix it. We're angry about\nthings ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sometimes. We all get angry about things sometimes. If we let our anger\njust become anger and destructive anger, that is challenging in how to try and\nfix it. But when we don't, when we think the world needs change, then we need to\ntry and find a way to affect positive repair of our world. So, you know, I think\nthis shines a light on an area that clearly needed fixing, yeah.\n\nRESNICK: Okay, we're going to move on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the wrap up questions.\n\nPRASS: Sure!\n\nRESNICK: I have three questions for you. The first one is what gives you hope\nduring these times?\n\nPRASS: So many, I mean so many things. I don't know how to even answer with one.\nI think young people give us hope. I think our ability to adapt gives us hope.\nUsing technology, it also causes us challenges, but young people, the ability of\nthe Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people, again, at the museum, for the record, I'm the Director of\nHolocaust Education, so I work with Holocaust survivors, and I will quote my\nsurvivors, I won't seem to say, \"I think they would said this,\" but they've\nsaid, \"I've survived the Holocaust. I can survive being 'cooped' up.\" You know,\nthey hid with morsels of food for years on end. We had to sit at home, we had to\nwear masks, you know, we were waiting for a vaccine. And a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hundred thousand\npeople have died, I don't want to seem like I'm not aware of those facts, but\nthe fact that some of us felt like, \"I can't be cooped up anymore,\" or \"I can't\nbe asked to wear this mask anymore,\" or \"I can't be asked to have a vaccine,\"\nyou know, those survivors said, \"Look what we went through. You can get a shot\nand you can wear a mask for the safety of other senior citizens,\" in their\ncases. So, that gives me hope.\n\nRESNICK: What positive changes in your life, your community, as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"person, as a\nrabbi, as the Director of the Weinberg Center, what do you think will persist\nafter the pandemic?\n\nPRASS: Distance learning! You know, that, I think in all of my, both of my\npositions, as a rabbi at the synagogue and as a, certainly here at the museum,\nis distance learning. I think it has opened up channels that we can communicate\ninformation to people in ways and in engaging ways that we've never thought of\nbefore. So, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think we're going to only continue to evolve in new and different\nways with that.\n\nRESNICK: Great. Finally, if you could share any message with future generations,\nwhat would that be? Wanted to leave you on an easy one.\n\nPRASS: That one actually, that's a fantastic question. You know, I would always\nsay that there's hope. That we, I was reviewing some emails, as I said earlier,\nis ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that we thought, \"Okay, it'll be two weeks.\" Then realized we're not sure.\nThen, \"Well, we're going to get a vaccine,\" and we got a vaccine. Then, you\nknow, we're going to find ways to adapt and start doing for so many of our\nchildren, hybrid learning. Then we're going to bring you back with the right\nprotocols. Now we're in the midst of the Omicron variant and I don't know how\nlong or whether it'll go, so maybe I'm going to be on tape for posterity of a\ncompletely wrong prediction of where this particular piece of the virus is\ngoing, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"already just today on the news, they said they're working on an\nOmicron-specific vaccine. So, you know, it'll take many months, just as the\nother ones took many months, but at least for this we can adapt as a world-wide\nsociety. As far as Judaism goes, we continue to adapt. We're, because of the\nrise in numbers, our synagogue, as I know several synagogues, are triggering\ncertain protocols. We stopped arguing about it, if the numbers equal such and\nsuch per one hundred ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thousand, we just put the numbers back in. The board and\nthe rabbis and the staff stop debating and we're just going to figure out how to\nadapt. It's simply like with GPS, if the highway is blocked, route me somewhere\ndifferent. I'm still going to get home, we're still going to make it there. Is\nlife going to be different for months and perhaps a few years as some scientists\nare predicting? Yeah, but we're going to get there and we're going to adapt. So,\nI believe that in the midst of all of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/transcript/35436/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this, very much so.\n\nRESNICK: Well, great. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me\ntoday and share your wisdom. We really appreciate it as the Breman and as part\nof Collecting These Times Pandemic Initiative. Thanks again.\n\nPRASS: You're welcome. It was a pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=3090.0,3120.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/annotation_set/666","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/annotation_set/666/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Joseph Prass is the Director of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education at the Breman Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Rabbi Prass is also the rabbi at Congregation Ner Tamid in Marietta, Georgia. He has been teaching about Judaism and the Holocaust for over 20 years. He previously served as a congregational rabbi for 20 years in Texas, Wisconsin, and Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/annotation_set/666/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Lillian and A.J. Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education offers a broad range of age-appropriate educational programs pertaining to the Holocaust and strives to make authentic resources on the Holocaust available to teachers, students, and institutions. The Weinberg Center supports the primary mission of The Breman Museum – to commemorate the Jewish experience while supporting universal diversity and promoting human dignity. Through written materials, guided tours, and oral presentations, The Weinberg Center provides educators and pupils with critical information on a range of topics relating to the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/annotation_set/666/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/annotation_set/666/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Ner Tamid is a Reform synagogue on the border of Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia, serving western and southern Cobb County as well as Paulding and Cherokee Counties. As of 2021, its senior rabbi is Joseph Prass, who also serves as the Director of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education at the Breman Museum in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1046/collection_resources/64213/file/148875/annotation_set/666/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. 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