Beat-box artist Yuri Lane with audience participants at Something Else! A Community Festival, December 25, 2005.
Past Public Programs '06
The Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies Public Program Department offers audiocassettes of many past programs for purchase. Please contact Beth Schenker at 312.322.1743 or bschenker@spertus.edu for more information.
The following is a list of past Spertus programs. Click on title for archived program description. For current listings visit our calendar of public programs.
All Ages Community Festival
Somthing Else
Monday, December 25, 2006
Film Screening & Discussion
After Auschwitz: Battle for the Holocaust
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Performance
Words & Music presents Bei Mir Bist Du Swing
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Lecture
Leonard Greenspoon
Reading, Translating, and Interpreting the Bible Jewishly: A Case Study on Warfare
Sunday, December 3, 2006
Author Event
Byron Sherwin discusses
Kabbalah for the Curious
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Illustrated Lecture
Spoils of War
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Illustrated Lecture
The Stages of Memory
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Lecture
Moshe Safdie presents
An Architecture of Peace
Sunday, November 5, 2006
Film Screening
Moshe Safdie, The Power of Architecture
Sunday, November 5, 2006
Multi-media lecture
Yonkle Doodle Dandy
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Lecture
Imagined Stories, Historical Truth: Jewish-Christian Relations on the Eve of Modernity
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Benefit for Jewish Learning and Culture
Annual Benefit
with CNN News Analyst Jeff Greenfield
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Lunch & Learn
Jewish Policies and Christian Politics
Presented by Alan Mittleman
Monday, September 18, 2006
Solomon Goldman Lecture
The End of Secular America?
Presented by Alan Mittleman
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Film Screen & Discussion
God in Government
Discussion led by Sylvia Neil
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Author Event
The God Factor
Discussion with Cathleen Falsani
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Film Screen & Discussion
The Tribe
Discussion led by Hal M. Lewis
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Special Program
Lee Bienstock: Being an Observant Jew on The Apprentice
Monday, July 31, 2006
Lee Bienstock of The Apprentice with fans from the Silberman family, July 31, 2006.
Spertus Family Activity Station
Greater Chicago Jewish Festival
at St. Paul Woods in Morton Grove
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Spertus Family Activity Station at the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival, June 11, 2006.
Exhibition Opening Event
Common Ground: Lawndale’s Shared History
at Lawndale Community Academy
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Family Program
Hopes and Dreams
Tale of the Moon presented by Piven Theatre
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Author Event
Writing Their Lives
Discussion with Sean Martin
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Mini-Course
Funny, It Doesn’t Look Jewish:
An Exploration of Architecture Of, For and Particularly by Jews
Taught by Kevin Harrington
Thursday, May 4, 2006