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Every Picture Tells a Story: Beginning Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Jehon Grist
Sun., June 17-July 29
Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley
Ancient Egyptian was one of the first ‘picture languages,’ employing beautiful images to express consonants, syllables and whole words. When Biblical Hebrew was born, Egyptian writing was already 2000 years old, a language rich in religious and secular literature.
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Lehrhaus 360 presents Anti-Semitism: Historical Perspectives, Fresh Insights on Sunday, May 15, from 12:30-6 p.m. at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael.
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Click here to read the j. article on the conference.
Anti-Semitism Conference Flyer
Leon Wieseltier, the keynote speaker, has served as the literary editor of The New Republic since 1983. He is a nationally renowned public intellectual and author of several books, including Kaddish and Against Identity (1996), an collection of essays on the modern notions of identity. Wieseltier also edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent (2000).
The afternoon will include two sessions of workshops led by some of the Bay Area’s experts on the topic and will conclude with a panel discussion on anti-Semitism today and the Jewish community responses.
The cost is $15 in advance and $25 at the door. The conference is free to students with ID.
The conference is generously supported by Eda and Joseph Pell, the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, Ruthellen Toole and the Toole Family, Koret Foundation, Chris and Warren Hellman, and Barbara and Richard Rosenberg.
The Osher Marin JCC and the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) are co-sponsors of the conference. The event is in association with the Marin Interfaith Council.
Schedule
11:30 a.m. Doors Open
12:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker
2:o0 p.m. Workshops Session I
3:30 p.m. Refreshments/Book Sales
3:45 p.m. Workshops Session 2
5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Keynote
How to Understand (and Not to Understand) Anti-Semitism
Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
Workshops Session I
Anti-Semitism in the Muslim and Arab World
Professor Fred Astren, San Francisco State University
Pagans and Jews: The Roots of Anti-Semitism?
Professor Erich Gruen, UC Berkeley
Blood and Anti-Semitism: From the Blood Libel to Blood-Based Racism
Professor David Biale, UC Davis
Race Science: The Depiction of Jewish Bodies and Sexuality in Nazi Anti-Semitism
Professor John Efron, UC Berkeley
The Road to the Holocaust
Professor Peter Kenez, UC Santa Cruz
Hollywood Spies: Jewish Infiltration of Pro-Nazi Groups in Los Angeles in the 1930s
Laura Rosenzweig, San Francisco State
Beyond Anne Frank: The Complex Story of Holland
Professor Diane Wolf, UC Davis and Louis de Groot, Survivor
Distinguishing Between Anti-Israel, Anti-Zionist and Anti-Semitic — Interactive Discussion for High School and College Students
Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan, Lehrhaus Judaica, and Morgan Blum, JFCS Holocaust Center
Workshops Session II
Anti-Semitism in the Muslim and Arab World
Prof. Fred Astren, San Francisco State University
Distinguishing Between “Anti-Israel” and “Anti-Semitic:” A Guide to the Perplexed
Julie Bernstein, Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)
Anti-Semitism in Poland
Professor William Hagen, UC Davis
Anti-Semitism and the Nazi Propaganda Machine
Professor Peter Kenez, UC Santa Cruz
The Great Exception: Why Anti-Semitism Has Been Relatively Mild in the Bay Area
Fred Rosenbaum, Lehrhaus Judaica
Anti-Semitism in Western Europe: Current Trends
Daniel Sandman, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Distinguishing Between Anti-Israel, Anti-Zionist and Anti-Semitic — Continued Interactive Discussion for High School and College Students
Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan, Lehrhaus Judaica, and Morgan Blum, JFCS Holocaust Center
Follow-up Discussion from Keynote Address
Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
Closing Panel
Anti-Semitism Today and Jewish Community Responses
Doug Kahn, Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)
Professor Marc Dollinger, San Francisco State University
Nina Grotch, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
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