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Lecture | Discussion

In Behalf of the Israelites

Abraham Lincoln’s Jewish Controversies & He Was Like One of Us: American Jewry and the Idealization of Abraham Lincoln

Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 7:00 pm

Dr. Gary Zola explored issues about why so many of Lincoln’s Jewish... More >

Author Event | Booksigning

36 Arguments for the Existence of God

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 7:00 pm

[AUDIO] Award-winning author Rebecca Goldstein spoke at... More >

Author Event | Booksigning

Louis D. Brandeis

A Life

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 7:00 pm

[AUDIO] Author Melvin I. Urofsky came to Spertus to discuss... More >

Film | Discussion

Making Trouble

Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women

Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 5:00 pm

At the legendary Katz’s deli in New York, four of today’s funniest Jewish... More >

Performance

Vagabond Opera

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 5:00 pm

Vagabond Opera presented Old World Music with New World Flair—lusty voices... More >

Lecture | Discussion

An Evening with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 7:00 pm

Spertus provided a rare... More >

Lecture | Discussion

True Torah or Living Torah?

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 5:00 pm

Is scholarship the sole motive for religious law or are there other... More >

Author Event | Booksigning

Evan Fallenberg on Light Fell

Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 3:00 pm

What happens when love, faith, and desire pull in fiercely different... More >

Author Event | Booksigning

Danya Ruttenberg on Surprised by God

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 5:00 pm

[AUDIO] Rabbi Ruttenberg discussed her journey, a story... More >

Panel | Discussion

Beyond Distancing

What it Means if American Jews Detach from Israel

Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 2:00 pm

[AUDIO] Major sociological and demographic surveys have... More >

Author Event | Booksigning

Josh Kun on And You Shall Know Us By The Trail of Our Vinyl

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 6:30 pm

[AUDIO] With music and visual images, Josh Kun shared how... More >

Mini-course

Gender and Judaism

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 3:00 pm

Students explored representative changes, innovations, and revivals of... More >

Film | Discussion

Rescuing Hope

Learning from the Heroes of the Holocaust

Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 5:00 pm

Author and scholar Dr. Patrick Henry presented a special program on rescuers... More >

Mini-course

Comparative Judaism

Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 1:00 pm

This course examined the major movements within American Judaism.

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Lecture | Discussion

Israel’s Conversion Crisis

Constructing Jewish Identity in a Pluralist Age

Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 5:00 pm

Israel’s Conversion Courts had applied an inclusive approach to converting... More >

Author Event | Booksigning

My Father’s Paradise

Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 5:00 pm

[AUDIO] Ariel Sabar discussed his book, My Father's... More >

Performance

Y-Love and Diwon

Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 7:00 pm

Hip Hop revolutionaries Y-Love and Diwon performed at Spertus.

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Author Event | Booksigning

Resurrecting Hebrew

Sunday, December 14, 2008 - 5:00 pm

[AUDIO] The stirring story of how Hebrew was transformed... More >

Special Event

Refuge Denied

The Search for the Passengers of the St. Louis

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 5:00 pm

In May 1939, the Cuban government turned away Hamburg-America Line's MS St.... More >

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