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Events

Upcoming Events

2009

Myths & Facts About the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Mitchell Bard, Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Divine Law lecture by Dr. David Novak, Monday March 16, 2009
The Arts of Passover from Antiquity to Today Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Case for Israel, by Alan Dershowitz, Thursday, March 19, 2009

Past Events

2008

Comedy Tonight: Jewish Humour in Television and Film Monday, Nov. 17, 2008
High Holy Days 2008 - For students who will be on campus
The Jewish Roots of Broadway Sunday, September 21, 2008
Truman, Israel and the 1948 Election by Dr. Stephen Berk Monday, September 22, 2008

The New Face of Anti-Semitism Monday, May 5, 2008

2007

PUTIN, RUSSIA AND THE JEWS Monday, November 19, 2007
MESSIANISM IN AN AGE OF DESPAIR Tuesday, October 9, 2007
International Conference on Contemporary Reform Judaism
Thursday, March 15, 2007: The God of Old: The Divine-Human Encounter in the Hebrew Bible by Dr. James Kugel

2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006: DEATH IN THE UKRAINE by Dr. Stephen Berk
Tuesday, September 19, 2006: ANGELS
Sunday, May 7, 2006: CANADA: A BASE FOR TERRORISM?
Thursday, March 23, 2006: Can All Religions Be True?
Monday, March 6, 2006: Why Don't the Jews Want the Messiah?
Monday, February 13, 2006: AUSCHWITZ TODAY
USPHIZIN playing at the Princess Cinema

2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005: Children of a Vanished World
Wednesday, November 30, 2005: The Pope For the Jews: John Paul II and Catholic-Jewish Relations by Dr. Michael Higgins
Wednesday, September 21, 2005: Dr. Stephen Berk will present the lecture: GREAT TRIALS IN JEWISH HISTORY
Sunday, May 15, 2005: Stolen Art and Holocaust Claims - THIS EVENT IS NOT BEING HELD AT ST. JEROME'S.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005: EDITING LIFE: THE GOLEM IN THE BIOTECH CENTURY by Dr. Byron L. Sherwin
Tuesday, January 25, 2005The Uniqueness of the Holocaust

2004
The Waterloo Region Holocaust Education Committee Presents the engaging lecture: HANA'S SUITCASE
Wednesday, November 24, 2004: Dr. James Kugel on What the Dead Sea Scrolls Tell Us About Ourselves
Thursday, October 14, 2004: Dr. Stephen Berk on The Longest Hatred: Then and Now
Wednesday, March 24, 2004: Prof. Dennis Stoutenburg on God and the Torah in Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

2003
Wednesday, November 26, 2003: Dr. Michael Oren on The Six Day War and Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
Monday November 10, 2003: Dr. Stephen Berk on Our People Are Your People: American Jews & the Struggle for Civil Rights 1954 - 1965
Tuesday, September 30, 2003: Rabbi Dow Marmur on Holiness and Spirituality: Are They Mutually Exclusive?
March 6, 2003: Dr. Stephen Berk on Germans and Jews: A Strange, Productive and Tragic Relationship

2002
November 4, 2002: Dr. Stefan C. Reif on A Thousand Year Old Jewish Archive
October 7, 2002: Dr. Menachem Kellner on Religion Without Dogma: Must a Jew Believe Anything?
March 18, 2002: Dr. James Diamond on The Sage is Greater Than the Prophet: Judaism As A Religion of Freedom and Responsibility

2001
October 15, 2001: Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffmanon Scholars, Scrolls & Scandals: Judaism, Christianity & the Dead Sea Scrolls
March 28, 2001: Dr. Rem Kooistra on Where Was God? Lives and Thoughts of Holocaust and World War II Survivors
March 19, 2001: Dr. Stephen Katz on Jewish Reisistance During the Holocaust
November 28, 2000: Dr. Stephen Berk on Zionism, Ben Gurion and the Holocaust