The Distinguished Scholar Series

Fall 2008

All lectures are free to the public.
7:30 to 9 pm
(202) 408-3100

	November 6, 2008 Violence, Peace and the Ethics of Judaism: Ancient Texts and Modern Dilemmas Prof. Robert Eisen, Director of Judaic Studies, George Washington University Sixth & I Street Synagogue 600 I Street, NW
	November 13, 2008 Yehudah Amichai: Love’s Melancholy and the Poetry of History Dr. (and Rabbi) William Cutter, Director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism And Health, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles Sixth & I Street Synagogue 600 I Street, NW
	November 20, 2008 War and the Jewish Tradition Prof. Michael Walzer, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Ohr Kodesh Congregation 8300 Meadowbrook Lane Chevy Chase, Maryland

Spring, 2009, the following speakers are coming:

	Prof. Steven Lowenstein, Isadore Levine Prof. of Jewish History, American Jewish University, Los Angeles
	Dr. Carl Rheins, Executive Director, YIVO Institute for Jewish Resource
	Prof. Robert Alter, Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California