Programs and Events

Hugh Musick & Friends
May 14 2008
Abbey Pub
Simply Marvelous: An Evening of Magic
When Pharoah commands Moses to “make a marvel,” he turns Aaron’s rod into a serpent; when a team of Egyptian sorcerers copies the trick, Moses’ serpent promptly gobbles them up. More >>

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Marilynne Robinson & Jonathan Rosen
May 22 2008
Newberry Library
Religion and Science
Does faith have a role in environmentalism? Will climate change transform the way we think about God? Is there a Biblical notion of stewardship? If so, do Jews and Christians interpret it in the same way? More >>

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Susannah Heschel
May 29 2008
Woman’s Club of Evanston
He Asked for Wonder: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Susannah Heschel talks about the life and work of her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. More >>


HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST EVENTS

Shalom Auslander with Ira Glass APRIL 3, 2006
THORNE AUDITORIUM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
In his book of short stories, Beware of God, Shalom Auslander kicks and screams at all things divine, yet can never quite let go. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, Auslander fled his family as a young man and began writing fiction as a way of understanding the distance he had traveled. Ira Glass is the producer and host of This American Life.
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Ruth Gruber: From Holocaust to Haven MARCH 1, 2006
HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY
Born in 1911, Ruth Gruber first made her reputation as an enterprising journalist in the 1930s. A decade later, in 1944, Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, asked Gruber to lead a secret mission to escort 1,000 Jewish refugees from Italy to America. After WWII she worked as a correspondent in Europe and Palestine, where she became an advocate for Jews in DP camps.
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