RECENTLY AT THE CJS

All About Eve: Gender and the Garden of Eden Tale

A talk by

Carol Meyers

Wednesday, October 23, 2002

7:30 p.m.

Owen Conference Center, UNCA

Readings and Conversation:

Read about this UNCA event in the Boston Globe!

Israeli Poet Aharon Shabtai and

Israeli Palestinian Poet

Taha Muhammad Ali

September 26, 2002

Understanding Israel:

a two day forum
Feb. 2 - 4

Ruth Gruber

October 17, 2001

7 p.m., Owen Conference Center

Voice of the Turtle

November 4, 2001

7p.m., Lipinsky Auditorium

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Ellen Frankel: The Five Books of Miriam, April 2001

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"Who Owns Anne Frank?" a reading and conversation with

CYNTHIA OZICK, May 2000

To read an interview with Cynthia Ozick, click here!

To hear a radio interview with Cynthia Ozick, click here!

The Invisible Wall:

Germans and Jews

a talk by

W. Michael Blumenthal

former U. S. Secretary of the Treasury

Executive Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin

"I grew up knowing bits and pieces of my mother's past but never the whole story. My sister and I knew that she had been born in Austria and that our grandparents had sent her on a train to England by herself when she was thirteen years old. But I didn't find out until recently that other children had gone too--that she was rescued by the Kindertransport movement." - Melissa Hacker

Hacker's documentary covers the Kindertransport, organized by British Jews
and Quakers, to rescue some 10,000 mostly Jewish children from the Nazis in the nine months before the outbreak of World War II. Hacker's mother was a child saved by the Kindertransport and she details her mother's experience through this film.

My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports
film screening and director's talk by Melissa Hacker on Saturday, November 13, in the Lapinsky auditorium and an informal talk and brown bag lunch Friday, November 12, at 12:15 p.m. in the Laurel Forum.

Ms. Hacker has worked as an editor for National Geographic Television and the PBS/BBC American Cinema series. A graduate of New York University Film School where she now teaches, she has been an assistant editor on many documentary films including Paris is Burning and the Academy Award winner and the Academy Award winner The Ten Year Lunch: the Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table; Indians, Outlaws, and Miss Angie Debo.

IN THE PAST:IN THE PAST:

Ehud Havazelet, a Reading and Talk
by the Critically Acclaimed Author of Like Never Before.

Discovering a Goddess, a talk by Aaron Demsky, professor of biblical history at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, discussing his discoveries at the excavation of Tel Miqne in Israel and what it reveals about the acculturation of the Philistines into local Canaanite society.

International Jewish Women's Issues: Religious, Legal and Ethical Responses to Feminism, a talk by Laura Kaplan, addressing religious, legal and ethical issues as they pertain to Jewish women in the United States and abroad.

Unmaking God in Our Own Image, a talk by Dr. Robert Ratner considering the treatment of biblical anthropomorphism in the philosophies of Onkelos and Maimonides, and its implications on contemporary prayer.

Healing in Judaism and Other Religious Traditions
This program explores methods of healing found within Judaism and Christianity, traditional methods that include song, study and meditation. Presenters include: Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, director of the National Center for Jewish Healing, Dr. Jane Curran, director of Mountain Area Hospice, and UNCA's Ebony Choir.

"The soul must not boast that it is more than the body, for only in that it has climbed down into the body and works through its limbs can the soul attain to its perfection. The body, on the other hand, may not brag of supporting the soul, for when the soul leaves, the flesh falls into decay." - Tales of Hasidim, Martin Buber.

The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Are We Past The Crossroads? Dr. Kenneth Stein, Professor of Middle Eastern History and Director of the Middle East Research Program at Emory University.

The Case of Jewish Life in Germany Today
A talk by Dr. Mark Gelber of Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, on the latest developments in German-Jewish life after the Holocaust and the unification of Germany.

Home Again: On Returning to Jerusalem on the Eve of Israel's 50th anniversary
Richard Chess

Jerusalem: Holy Space/Unholy Times
Walter Ziffer

Jerusalem on My Mind: Jerusalem as Imagined by Ashevillians and as by Native Jerusalemites , Maggie Lauderer tells stories of Jerusalem as imagined by citizens of Western North Carolina.

Roots in the air: An American-Israeli reflects on life in Jerusalem and abroad , a talk and poetry reading by Shirley Kaufman about the impact Jerusalem and Israel have had on her work and life.

The Klezmatics , A performance by the internationally acclaimed Klezmer band.

"God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality" , A talk by Daniel Matt, author of a book by the same title, and editor and translator of The Zohar and The Essential Kabbalah.