Calendar 2013-2014
October
Thursday 10
7:30 pm
Thursday 24
Noon
November
Friday 8
10:00 am
(Thursday 7
7:30pm)
Saturday 16
8:30 pm
Sunday 17
2:00 pm
Rabbi Asher Lopatin, President, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School
The Tradition of Innovation in Halacha
Akiva Hebrew Day School, Southfield
Co-sponsored by Akiva Hebrew Day School
Faculty Brown Bag Seminar
Israel in the Middle East: A Parallax View
Saeed Khan, Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State
University
Faculty/Administration Building, Room 2339
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Center, Wayne State University
62nd Annual Jewish Book Fair
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Author
I Kiss your Hands Many Times
Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield
(Jewish Community Center of Oak Park)
62nd Annual Jewish Book Fair
Fred Stoller, Comedian, Author Maybe We’ll have You Back
Marion Grodin, Comedian, Author Standing Up
A Night of Comedy
Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield
Co-sponsored by Hillel of Metro Detroit
Rivka Bliboim, Hebrew University
University of Michigan Frankel Institute Fellow 2013-2014
The Debate over the Name of the Jewish State-to-Be, 1947-48
Adat Shalom Synagogue, Farmington Hills
December
Thursday 5
Noon
Co-sponsored by Adat Shalom Synagogue and Stand With Us - Michigan
Faculty Brown Bag Seminar
Salomone Rossi's Hashirim asher l'Shlomo (The Songs of Solomon): Jewish Liturgical
Music in Northern Italy during the early 17th Century
Martin Herman, Wayne State University
Faculty/Administration Building, Room 2339
Co-sponsored by Humanities Center, Wayne State University
Thursday 5
7:00
Sunday 8
2:30-3:30
Howard Lupovitch, Director Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, Wayne State
University
Emancipation and Abolition: the Transatlantic Search for Freedom
Holocaust Memorial Center – Farmington Hills
Sponsored by The Holocaust Memorial Center, Zekelman Family Campus
Howard Lupovitch, Director Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, Wayne State
University
Coming to America: the Eastern European Wave (part of The Golden Dream: The
Jewish Journey from Europe to America Symposium)
Adat Shalom Synagogue, Farmington Hills
Sponsored by Federation’s Alliance for Jewish Education, FedEd. For information call 248-205-2557.
January
Sunday 12
2:30 pm
Julian Levinson, Samuel Shetzer Chair in American Jewish Studies, University of Michigan
Why Yiddish Still Matters
Jewish Community Center – West Bloomfield
Co-sponsored by Shalom Aleichem Institute and The Active Adult Program
Monday 13
7:00
February
Sunday 9
4:00 pm
Thursday 13
Noon
Howard Lupovitch, Director Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, Wayne State
University
Movie Screening: Torn followed by a panel discussion
Polo Club, Boca Raton, Florida
Co-sponsored by Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment
Hindy Najman, Yale University
The Beginning of Judaism: New Perspectives
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Southfield
Co-sponsored by Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Faculty Brown Bag Seminar
Budapest, 1900: Reflections on Urban Jewish Life
Howard Lupovitch, Director Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, Wayne State
University
Faculty/Administration Building, Room 2339
Co-sponsored by: The History Department and The Humanities Center, Wayne State University
March
Wednesday 19
7:00
The Pearl A. and George M. Zeltzer Lecture on Women in Judaism
Budgets, Boycotts, and Babies: Jewish Women in the Great Depression.
Beth Wenger, University of Pennsylvania
University of Michigan Frankel Institute Fellow for the 2013-2014
Temple Kol Ami, West Bloomfield
Co-Sponsored by Temple Kol Ami
Thursday 27
3:00 pm
April
Sunday 6
9:00 am -4:00 pm
Wednesday 30
7:00
May
Thursday 8
7:00
Monday 12
7:00
June
Monday 23
7:00
Faculty Brown Bag Seminar
Yentl and the Rabbis: Women’s Torah Study, Orthodoxy and Modernity
Ilan Fuchs
Faculty/Administration Building, Room 2339
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Center, Wayne State University
Symposium
The Jews of Detroit: Past, Present and Future
McGregor Memorial Conference Center B-C, Wayne State University
Annual Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Commemoration
Surviving Genocide: Armenians and Jews in 20th Century France
Maud Mandel, Brown University
Holocaust Memorial Center – Farmington Hills
Co-sponsored by The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive and The Armenian
Research Center (University of Michigan-Dearborn),and the Holocaust Memorial Center,
Zekelman Family Campus
Dara Horn, Author, will discuss her new book: The Guide to the Perplexed
Temple Israel, West Bloomfield
Co-sponsored by Temple Israel
It’s Good to See the King: Visual Kabbalah and the Diagramming of the Divine
Yossi Chajes, University of Haifa
Janice Charach Gallery, Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield
Co-sponsored by Janice Charach Gallery
Annual John M. Haddow Memorial Program in Jewish Culture
Jewish Music in 20th Century America- a Musical Review
Cantor Michael Smolash, Cantorial Soloist Neil Michaels accompanied by an ensemble from
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The Berman Center for the Performing Arts
Co-sponsored by Temple Israel, Jewish Community Center, Federation’s Alliance for Jewish Education,
FedEd, The Berman Center for the Performing Arts and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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