Past Public Programs
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.
Family Program
Something Else!
Tuesday, December 25
A Grand Opening Event
Members & Alumni Tea
Thursday, December 6
Lecture & Reception
Thomas L. Friedman
a part of our Grand Opening Festivities
Wednesday, December 5
A Grand Opening Event
All Chicago, All-Ages Free Open House
Sunday, December 2
Grand Opening Events
Exhibition Openings & Heeb Storytelling
Saturday, December 1
Exhibition Opening
The New Authentics:
Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation
Friday, November 30
New Spertus Grand Opening
Grand Opening Gala Benefit
Thursday, November 29
Lecture
Do Jews Have an Atheist Gene?
Christopher Hitchens
Monday, November 12, 2007
Partner Program
Weathering the Storms—The Little Ice Age and the Transformation of European Culture
Dr. Dean Bell
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Partner Program
The Globalization of Selfishness vs. The Globablization of Generosity
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sunday, November 4
Lecture
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad
Monday, October 15
Book Launch
A Living Lens:
A First Peak Into Never-Before-Seen Archives
Sunday, September 30
Film Screening and Discussion
Jewish Women in American Sport
Sunday, September 16
Illustrated Lecture and Book Signing
Wrestling With Rashi
With Deeana Copeland Klepper
August 26, 2007
Jewish Book Club | Lunch & Learn
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
Discussion led by Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Lecture and Poetry Reading
Yidishkayt:
Prairie Schooner Presents New Jewish Poetry
Presented by Hilda Raz and Jehanne Dubrow
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Special Program
Folktales of the Jews
with Dr. Ellen Frankel
and Alberto Mizrahi
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Jewish Book Club | Lunch & Learn
We Jews and Jesus
Rabbi David Fox Sandmel
Monday, May 14, 2007
Author Event
They Married What They Wanted to Be:
Rebbetzins in American Jewish Life
Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Thursday, April 26, 2007
4-Week Course begins
What is Jewish about Jewish American Poetry?
Eric Murphy Selinger
Monday, April 16, 2007
Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Judy Chicago's Journey to the Holocaust Project: Roots, Purpose, and Controversy
Dr. Gail Levin
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Bernardin Lecture
Jewish Views of Jesus
Rabbi Dr. Michael J. Cook
Monday, March 26 2007
Multi-Media Lecture
Lights! Camera! Action!
Jewish Women in the Media
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Jewish Book Club | Lunch & Learn
What Israel Means to Me
Discussion led by Rabbi Vernon Kurtz
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
4-Session Mini-Course Begins
Jewish Business Law and Professional Ethics
Daniel Sinclair
Monday, February 26, 2007
Jewish Book Club | Lunch & Learn
The Jew Within
Discussion led by Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Author Event
American Judaism's Contemporary Scorecard
Jeffrey S. Gurock
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Lunch & Learn
Two Modes of Women in Ancient Judaism:
Esther and Judith
Adolfo Roitman
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Special Family Event
The More Things Change,
the More They Stay the Same!
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Special Lecture Series
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Freud's Birth
January 14, 15, 21, 2007
Jewish Book Club | Lunch and Learn
The Nazi Conscience
Tuesday, January 9, 2007