November 8, 2009
"On the Cutting Edge - Today's Jewish Woman: Back by Popular Demand"
Jewish Women’s Symposium

8:45 a.m. | Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus
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Returning for its 5th year and featuring favorite speakers from previous years. Co-sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education, Brandeis National Committee, Hadassah Valley of the Sun, Jewish Studies at ASU, National Council of Jewish Women, Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center, Womens Philanthropy of the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix

November 10, 2009 | 7 p.m.
"The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe"
Film and discussion commemoratingthe 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht
Temple Emanuel
5801 South Rural Road, Tempe

Free and open to all. No reservations required.

For hundreds of years, the Jews of Eastern European rural communities
built their houses of worship from wood. Narrated by Theodore Bikel,
this award-winning film tells the story of those synagogues, the life
that surrounded them before World War II and their fate in the past 50
years.

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Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies

February 15, 2010
Albert and Liese Eckstein Scholar in Residence lectures
Derek Penslar, University of Toronto

"The Politics of Knowledge: Israel Studies, Jewish Studies and Academia"
10:30 a.m. | Lattie F. Coor Hall 4403 | Tempe campus of Arizona State University

"Jewish Origins of the Israeli Army"
7 p.m. | ASU Kerr | Scottsdale, Arizona
reservations required: jewish-studies@asu.edu or (480) 727-6906

March 9, 2010
Dr. Jeremy Benstein
Educational/Fellowship Director of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership

“Environmentalism between the Personal and the Political: Religious Language in the Public Sphere”
10:30 a.m. | Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 481 | Tempe campus of Arizona State University
(southwest corner of University Boulevard and College Avenue - look for the wind turbines)

“Environmental Activism and Policy in Israel: Developing Cultural Resources and Public Awareness”
7 p.m. | Temple Chai | 4645 East Marilyn Road, Phoenix

Co-sponsored byThe Global Institute of Stustainabilit and Institute for Humanities Research

April 14, 2010
Etgar Keret, bestselling Israeli author and filmmaker

“On the Art of Writing and Filmmaking in Contemporary Israel: From the Bizarre to the Surreal”
1:30 p.m. | Virginia G. Piper Writer's House | Tempe campus of Arizona State University

"The Challenges of Writing and Filmmaking in Israel Today"
7 p.m. | Temple Emanuel | 5801 South Rural Road, Tempe

April 28, 2010
Jewish Studies Student Recognition Event
7 p.m.| University Club | Tempe campus of Arizona State Universty