Calendar of Events

Monday, June 1

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Jewish Agricultural Settlement in the USSR, Israel, and even the USA."

A lecture by Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen

Professor Dekel-Chen, author of Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Power in Soviet Russia, 1924-41 (Yale University Press, 2005), serves as lecturer in the Hebrew University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry and General History Department and is currently a visiting research fellow in the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 238
1825 SW Broadway
7.30 P.M.

ADMISSION FREE


Monday, June 1

"Scarcity, Conflict, and Security: The Future of Water for Israel and Her Neighbors"

A lecture by Professor Gabriel Eckstein.

Professor Eckstein, the George W. McCleskey Professor of Water Law at Texas Tech University and currently a visiting professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, is a recognized expert in international water law and policy.

Benson Hotel
309 SW Broadway
12 - 1:30 pm

Admission: $20 per person

Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland Community Relations Committee and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU. To register, go to www.jewishportland.org or call Becka Ross at 503-245-6219. For more information, contact Bob Horenstein, Community Relations Director, at bob@jewishportland.org or 503-245-6496.


Tuesday, May 26

Redefining the Radical in Radical Jewish Feminism with Gloria Greenfield

Gloria Z. Greenfield has been one of the major shapers of and activists in radical Jewish feminism. She is currently a senior partner of the Doc Emet Productions film company, and also Director of Community Engagement for the Hebrew College of Boston. She has served as executive director of the David Project, and as director of the Adult Learning Collaborative in Boston, where she directed the Jewish Women's Studies initiative, bringing the leading Jewish feminist scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel to Boston.

For more information on Ms. Greenfield and the contribution of Jewish women to American feminism, please visit http://jwa.org/feminism/.

Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294
1825 SW Broadway
1:00 P.M.

ADMISSION FREE

SPONSORED BY PSU WOMEN'S STUDIES, THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER AT PSU, AND THE HAROLD SCHNITZER FAMILY PROGRAM IN JUDAIC STUDIES AT PSU.


Tuesday, May 12

Eurovision 2009


Join millions of viewers around the world, as we watch the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest semi-final live from Moscow, in which dozens of countries from Albania to the United Kingdom will participate. Israel's entry this year is a duet: the Jewish singer Noa and the Arab singer Mira Awad, singing their Hebrew-Arabic-English pro-peace anthem, "There Must Be Another Way."

Location: PSU Campus,
Smith Memorial Student Union
Multicultural Center
1825 SW Broadway
12:30 - 4:00 pm

ADMISSION FREE
Refreshments will be served


Wednesday, May 6


Film: The Forgotten Refugees

This vivid documentary recounts the history and twentieth-century destruction of the indigenous Jewish communities of the Middle East. Featuring archival footage and testimony from Jews who fled Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Morocco and Iran, the film explores the rich heritage of Judeo-Arabic culture and the nearly one million Jews who lived in North Africa and the Middle East until the middle of the 20th century. 50 mins

Location: PSU Campus,
Smith Memorial Student Union, room 228
1825 SW Broadway
1:00 - 1:50 pm

ADMISSION FREE


Monday May 4 (10th of Iyyar)

JEWISH THEATRE COLLABORATIVE & THE YIDDISH HOUR PRESENT

Happy Hour with Sholem Aleichem:
A Story telling and Klezmer Rocking celebration
of Sholem Aleichem's Yahrzeit


Location: PSU Campus
Smith Memorial Student Union
Food for Thought Cafe
1825 SW Broadway
5:30-7 PM

ADMISSION FREE

Sponsored by The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University


Sunday, April 26

Why Chassidism Didn't Spread to the West

A lecture by Professor Shaul Stampfer
Professor Stampfer is the Rabbi Edward Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European
Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Location: PSU Campus,
Smith Memorial Student Union, room 236
1825 SW Broadway
10:00 am

ADMISSION FREE

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School "Brunch and Learn" Program


April 21st

Ishmael Khaldi


Lecture: "From Bedouin Shepherd to Israeli Consul: One Man's Story of Israel's Culture, Society, and Politics from the Perspective of a Bedouin Minority Living in the Jewish State"

Lecture and discussion with Ishmael Khaldi, Deputy Consul General of Israel for the Pacific Northwest

Date: April 21
Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union
1825 SW Broadway
Parkway North (NW corner of the building, ground floor)

Co-sponsored by: Greater Portland Hillel, PSU Jewish Student Union, The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU, Oregon Students in Support of Israel, and the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest

For more information, contact Linda Maizels, 503-725-4023, lmaizels@pdx.edu


Tuesday, March 31

The Third Annual Sara Glasgow Cogan Lecture
"American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust"
A lecture by Professor Hasia Diner



Dr. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University and the Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History.

Location: Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom (3rd Floor)
PSU Campus, 1825 SW Broadway
7:30 pm

ADMISSION FREE

For more information contact Linda Maizels at lmaizels@pdx.edu or call 503-725-4023


Monday, March 2

The Fourth Annual Gus & Libby Solomon Lecture
"In Search of American Jewish Heritage"
A lecture by Professor Beth Wenger




Beth Wenger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania where she serves as Director of the Jewish Studies Program. Wenger’s most recent book, The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America (Doubleday, 2007) was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist. The book is a companion volume to the 2008 PBS documentary, The Jewish Americans, and Wenger served on the board of distinguished scholars advising the series. She is also the author of New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise, published by Yale University Press in 1996 and awarded the Salo Baron Prize in Jewish History from the American Academy of Jewish Research.

Location: Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom (3rd Floor)
PSU Campus, 1825 SW Broadway
7pm

ADMISSION FREE

For more information contact Linda Maizels at lmaizels@pdx.edu or call 503-725-4023

And don't miss a second chance to hear Professor Wenger speak

Tuesday, March 3

"War Stories: The Remaking of American Jewry,"

Location: Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294
PSU Campus, 1825 SW Broadway
12 pm (noon)

ADMISSION FREE


Thursday, February 19

"Virtual Jews: Reviving Community Memories among Moroccan Jews in Cyberspace"
A lecture by Professor Aomar Boum
University of Arizona

Until the early 1960s, Morocco housed one of the largest and most vibrant Jewish communities of the Arab world. Today, less than three thousand Jews live in few major urban centers in separate neighborhoods and with less contact with their Muslim neighbors. Nevertheless, throughout the world, Moroccan Jewish communities continue to maintain their historical relationships with their native homeland. While some visit the sites of local shrines and attend religious festivals throughout the country, others explore Internet sites that allow them to perform what they call "virtual pilgrimages" to cemeteries where members of their families are buried and places where Jewish communities lived.

This lecture looks at the ability of these communities to foster a virtual community of memory and at how cyberspace is creating a new Moroccan Jewish community in the Internet.

Location: Smith Memorial Student Union
Room 236 (Cascade Room)
PSU Campus, 1825 SW Broadway
7:30 pm

ADMISSION FREE


Wednesday, January 21

TWO public lectures by Paul Liptz
Professor of Middle East and African History at Tel Aviv University

1. Moving to the Middle East: Contemporary Immigrants in Israel

School of Business at Portland State University
615 SW Harrison Street
Room 190
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

ADMISSION FREE

For more information, contact Linda Maizels, 503-725-4023, lmaizels@pdx.edu

2. Israel: Confronting the Strategic Challenges Ahead

Mittleman Jewish Community Center Ballroom
6651 SW Capitol Highway
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

ADMISSION FREE

For more information, contact Community Relations Director Bob Horenstein, 503-245-6496, bob@jewishportland.org

Both lectures presented in collaboration with the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland


Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:00 pm

"PURSUING NAZI WAR CRIMINALS"
A lecture and presentation by Eli M. Rosenbaum

Mittleman Jewish Community Center Ballroom
6651 SW Capitol Highway

Lecture is free and open to the public
Reception to Follow


Presented in collaboration with Lewis and Clark Law School and in association with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center, Solomon's Legacy, and the Greater Portland Hillel


You Are Invited To Attend
A Brown Bag Lecture Series
Sponsored by PSU Judaic Studies, PSU History, PSU English, and Phi Alpha Theta

Wednesday, November 19
Noon
Cramer Hall 447 (Hoffmann Library)
"Defending God's House: Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Monotheistic Traditions before the Crusades"
Prof. John Ott (History)

Tuesday, November 25
Noon
Neuberger Hall 407
"The Jew, The Muslim, and Permanent War" (an analysis of race and racism in connection with religion since 9/11)
Prof. Lee Medovoi (English)

Wednesday, December 3
Noon
Cramer Hall 447 (Hoffmann Library)
"Jews, Whiteness, and Antisemitism in 21st-Century America"
Linda Maizels (Judaic Studies)

Wednesday, December 10
Noon
Cramer Hall 447 (Hoffmann Library)
"Report on the first Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute in Israel program, June 2008"
Prof. Martin Zwick (Systems Science)

For more information, please contact lmaizels@pdx.edu


Wednesday October 29

An evening with Israeli author and award-winning filmmaker
Etgar Keret



Including a showing of the film Jellyfish, winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival

Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd

5:30 pm: Film screening
7:30 pm: Discussion with the audience

General Admission $5
Students Free with ID

Please join us at 3 pm in the Smith Memorial Student Union, room 238 (The Browsing Lounge) for a conversation with the author and PSU students.

For samples of Keret's stories, please contact Professor Michael Weingrad (weingrad@pdx.edu).

Co-sponsored by PSU Judaic Studies, Portland Hillel, Portland Chapter of Hadassah, and the Oregon Area Jewish Committee


September 14 - 16, 2008
In celebration of our 25th anniversary,
the Institute for Judaic Studies
in cooperation with The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU
PRESENTS
"The impact of the emigres from the former Soviet Union
on the United States and Israel
"

The Broadway Building at PSU
1970 SW Broadway - Room 222