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CSJO 2007 Conference, Friday, 05/25/07 - Monday, 05/28/07
The annual Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations (CSJO) conference will be held this year at Ursuline College in Cleveland, OH, during the US...
The New Humanism - Harvard's Humanist Chaplaincy, Friday, 04/20/07 - Sunday, 04/22/07
Harvard's Humanist Chaplaincy is hosting a major Humanist Conference, "The New Humanism" to honor Tom Ferrick, the founder of the Humanist Chapl...
"Talking to Jewish Radicals", Wednesday, 04/18/07, 07:15 PM - Wednesday, 04/18/07
Paul Buhle, Senior Lecturer in American Civilization at Brown University, will discuss the contribution of leftwing Jewish Americans to popular ...
An Environmental Tu B'Shvat Tasting Seder, Monday, 02/05/07, 07:00 PM - Monday, 02/05/07
Join us for a unique celebration of the traditional "New Year for the Trees," with a biblical food tasting including figs, pomegranates and date...
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran: Myth and Reality, Wednesday, 01/31/07, 07:00 PM - Wednesday, 01/31/07
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? Why are they relevant to us today? Adolfo Roitman, the charismatic head of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel ...
Jewish Activism, Then and Now: An Intergenerational Conference, Sunday, 10/29/06, 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Participatory workshops on Jewish activism in the fields of War and Peace, Civil Liberties, Labor and Gender Politics.
Workshop facilitators...
2006 CSJO Conference, Friday, 05/26/06 - Monday, 05/29/06
The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations conference theme is "Secular Jewishness and Human Welfare - Putting Our Values to Work" and guest s...
Jewish Music Forum, Friday, 02/10/06, 10:00 AM - Friday, 05/12/06
The Association for Jewish Studies invites members to participate in the current spring semester of the Jewish Music Forum. Under the auspices o...
Book launch: Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture, Wednesday, 02/01/06, 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the langu...
Community Shabbes Dinner Honoring the Civil Rights Movement, Friday, 01/20/06, 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring presents a Shabbes dinner featuring Melanie Kay Kantrowitz, founder of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, w...
Book Launch: New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora, Wednesday, 12/14/05, 07:00 PM - Wednesday, 12/14/05
Author David Shneer and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the U...
In Celebration of Jewish Women Writers, Sunday, 12/04/05
Author and secularist Janice Eidus (www.janiceeidus.com) will be a featured writer at T...
Jesus, Christianity and the Jews, Friday, 11/18/05 - Sunday, 11/20/05
The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism presents an Adult Education weekend seminar led by Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, founder of ...
"Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue," Social Justice Teach-In, Sunday, 11/13/05, 02:00 PM - 05:30 PM
An afternoon of discussion and exchange with Avi Lyon, Director of the Jewish Labor Committee and Julie Winokur, documentary filmmaker, and Marc...
Memories of Survival, Wednesday, 11/09/05, 06:30 PM - Wednesday, 11/09/05
In 1942, when Esther Nisenthal Krinitz was 15, the Nazis emptied her family's small village in Poland sending everyone to the camps. Esther took...
Remembering Rabin: Whither Peace? Whither Israel?, Wednesday, 11/09/05, 06:00 PM - Wednesday, 11/09/05
On November 5, 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a young Israeli fanatic bent on aborting the Oslo peace accords. A career ...
Shabbes Dinner with Chaim Yavin: Israel's Premier TV News Anchor, Friday, 10/28/05, 06:30 PM - Friday, 10/28/05
Often referred to as the Walter Cronkite of Israel, Chaim Yavin has held a distinguished four-decade long career in broadcast news and documenta...
Colloquium '05: Digging for the Truth: Archaeology and the Bible, Friday, 10/21/05 - Sunday, 10/23/05
No Moses? No Exodus? Not according to a new breed of biblical archaeologists. What part of the Hebrew Bible is real history? What is the...
Rabbi Sivan Maas on Celebrating Secular Jewish Life in an Orthodox Jewish State, Tuesday, 10/18/05, 06:00 PM - Tuesday, 10/18/05
How does secular Judaism fit into a religious Jewish country? Where is the separation between church and state? How do secular rabbis fit into t...
THE JEWS OF SPAIN, Monday, 08/08/05 - Monday, 08/15/05
Experience the glory of Jewish life in medieval Spain and the vibrancy of modern Spain in a custom-designed trip.
Arranged by the Internation...
YiddishFest 2005, Sunday, 07/17/05, 12:00 PM - Sunday, 09/18/05
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring presents YiddishFest 2005, Yiddish Concerts for Peace in Manhattan (July 17, Sept 18), Long Island (Jul...
A Secular Israeli Perspective on Traditional Jewish History, Wednesday, 06/29/05, 07:00 PM - Wednesday, 07/13/05
Rachel Elior, professor of Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will turn her attention to the question of wha...
CSJO Conference 2005: "Voices of Our Past, Visions of the Future", Friday, 05/27/05 - Monday, 05/30/05
Three days of challenging workshops and entertainment participants from across North America.
Keynote speakers will be Dr. Jerald Bain (T...
Investments That Make a Difference, Thursday, 05/19/05, 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
A Forum on Socially Responsible Investing
The forum will feature Marc Sussman, CFP (Endorsed Financial Planner of the Workmen's Circle) and A...
How the Different Denominations See Conversion: A Diversity of Views, Tuesday, 05/17/05, 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Rabbi Peter Schweitzer to Speak at the 92nd Street Y
On Tuesday, May 17, at 7:30 pm Rabbi Peter Schweitzer will represent Humanistic...
59th Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust, Wednesday, 04/20/05, 06:00 PM - Wednesday, 04/20/05
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring and the Forward Association in cooperation with Congregation Rodeph Shalom is proud to present 59th Commemorat...
The Annual Commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Tuesday, 04/19/05, 04:00 PM - Tuesday, 04/19/05
The distinguished speakers will include:
Professor Jack Jacobs, Chair
David Goldstick, Board Member of Riverside Park Fund
Adrian Benepe...
Jewishness and Secularism in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: A conference sponsored by the Posen Foundation and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Sunday, 04/17/05, 09:30 AM - Monday, 04/18/05, 05:00 PM
Public Program
Rackham Assembly Hall, 915 E. Washington
Sunday, April 17:
9:30 a.m.- 12:30
Introduction: Todd Endelman, Director, F...
92nd Steet Y Presents: Is There A Secular Judaism? , Tuesday, 04/12/05 - Monday, 10/27/03
This program is SOLD OUT at the 92nd Street Y; See the October 28th program fo...
Gender, Judaism and Democracy, Tuesday, 02/15/05, 07:00 PM - Tuesday, 02/15/05
”Why is there not a single Hebrew book written by a woman in the library of 'the people of the book’ until the beginning of the 20th century?” a...
What's All the Fuss about Kabbalah?: A Conversation about Jewish Mysticism & Popular Culture, Thursday, 01/27/05, 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
It’s a long way from the mystics in 16th century Israel who welcomed the Sabbath Queen in the fields outside Safed, to the celebrities in 21st c...
The "Bible" of Secular Humanistic Judaism: A Journey from Ancient through Modern Jewish Literature, Friday, 12/03/04, 06:30 PM - Sunday, 12/05/04, 01:00 PM
Cultural, Secular and Humanistic Jews cherish the complete Jewish literary heritage developed over the full span of history. From ancient texts ...
Events Update, Wednesday, 12/01/04
The Center for Cultural Judaism will not be holding fall seminars while we assist our friends at the International Federation of Secular Humanis...
Jewish Activism: The Progressive Tradition from Hillel to Helen Suzman, Thursday, 10/21/04, 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Bennett Muraskin’s new book, Let Justice Well Up Like Water, features biographies of secular Jewish men and women in history who have wor...
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture, Wednesday, 06/23/04, 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Brown University Senior Lecturer Paul Buhle, self-proclaimed “yiddishe goy” and author of newly released From the Lower East Side to Holl...
WEEKEND SEMINAR: The Making of the Secular Jew -- A New Perspective on Contemporary Jewish History, Friday, 05/14/04, 07:15 PM - Sunday, 05/16/04, 05:00 PM
Over the last 300 years the Jew has been more radically altered than in any previous centuries. While religion was the dominant theme of Jewish...
Let Justice Well Up Like Water, Wednesday, 04/14/04, 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Progressive secular Jews need their heroes and Guest Speaker Bennett Muraskin introduces 62 social reformers, journalists, writers, histo...
Awakening Lives, Wednesday, 03/03/04, 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Guest Speaker Jeffrey Shandler, leads us in an exploration of modern Jewish life in Poland between the two world wars, as seen through ex...
92nd Street Y Presents -- Cultural Secular Judaism: A Place at the Table , Wednesday, 02/25/04, 07:30 PM - Wednesday, 03/10/04, 07:30 PM
Secular and cultural Jews make up nearly half of the Jewish community. This five-week class continues and investigates how modern approaches to ...
Debating Jewish-Style: Arguing with God, Among the Rabbis, and With Oneself, Wednesday, 12/03/03, 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Guest Speaker Rabbi PETER SCHWEITZER of The City Congregation for Humanistic...
Reclaiming the Talmud: A Modern Look at Ancient Women, Wednesday, 11/05/03, 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Guest Speaker Ruth Calderon from Alma Hebrew College in Tel Aviv leads us in an exploration of Talmudic stories on the place of...
Secular Judaism and the Bible as Literature, Tuesday, 10/28/03, 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
We are pleased to schedule a second evening of this program, which is SOLD OUT at the 92nd Street Y the previous evening.
If Judaism ...
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