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Jewish Studies Events Calendar 2006-2007

Monday, March 19, Wednesday, April 18, Monday, April 23, & Monday, April 30, 2007 8:00 PM Locations Vary	The Reel Israel Film Festival Click to View the Flyer (PDF Format) Yossi & Jagger Monday, March 19, 2007 8:00 p.m. Room 137 Bowman Hall Campfire Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:00 p.m. Room 177 (Auditorium) Michael Schwartz Center Metallic Blues Monday, April 23, 2007 8:00 p.m. Room 133 Bowman Hall Trembling Before God Monday, April 30, 2007 8:00 p.m. Rm 137 Bowman Hall	Yossi & Jagger This moving, short film has the focused impact and emotional clarity of a fine short story. A multiple award winner, this unusual love tale, set on a snowy Israeli-Lebanese border facing possible Hezbollah incursions, has an unexpected sweetness and buoyancy. (See Flyer for full description) Campfire The year is 1981. Rachel, a 42-year-old widow, mother of two teen daughters, wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank. The problem is that she won't be accepted her unless she proves that she and her daughters meet the group's religious and ideological standards. (See Flyer for full description) Metallic Blues Metallic Blues is a touching and amazing tragicomic road-movie, about two Israeli car dealers who risk it all in search of a better life, only to find out the most unexpected personal and historical truths. (See Flyer for full description) Trembling Before God Trembling Before God is a documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. (See Flyer for full description)
Monday, April 16, 2007 8:00 pm Governance Chamber, Kent State Student Center	Listening and Hearing: Testimony and the History of the Holocaust With Associate Professor of History at Boston College, DEVIN PENDAS View the Flyer for More Information	The methods historians have developed over the years to reconstruct past events often fail in the case of the Holocaust. The traditional preference of historians for written sources in this instance means a preference–usually unintended-for the perpetrator’s point of view. Often the only sources for presenting the victims’ experiences are oral testimonies. Yet such sources raise genuine methodological problems. Pendas will examine the challenges and benefits of using oral testimony for reconstructing the history of the Holocaust.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 7:30 pm Rockwell Auditorium	Terrorism and its Discontents: The Tyranny of 'Root Causes' With Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, WALTER REICH View the Flyer for More Information	Walter Reich has worked for the protection of human rights around the world since the early 1970s and has written and lectured widely on the Holocaust and genocide, terrorism, human rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Recipient of the 2004 Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association, Reich also is author of A Stranger in My House: Jews and Arabs in the West Bank.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:00 pm 107A Ritchie Hall, Mbarimbayo Lecture Hall	The Long Road to Healing, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Rwanda With International Lawyer and Gender Expert, JUSTINE RUKEBA MBABAZI View the Flyer for More Information	Justine Rukeba Mbabazi is one of the new female leaders in Rwanda. A lawyer who drafted Rwanda’s first legislation against Gender-Based Violence, Mbabazi is the former director of the American Bar Association in Rwanda and bro bono worker of a women’s movement in Rwanda. Ms. Mbabazi played a critical role in the debate of gender equality in Rwanda’s new constitution. She is presently a trainer and a mentor of the first team of female defense lawyers in Afghanistan.
Monday, October 16, 2006 8:00 pm Student Center, Governance Chambers	Walking the Tightrope: Jewish Popular Entertainers in Weimar Germany With Tulane University historian, MARLINE OTTE View the Flyer for More Information	Join Marline Otte as she explores the roles of Jews in German popular entertainment. Paying homage to the many ways in which German Jews were instrumental in the birth of an incomparably rich world of popular culture, her talk will trace the kaleidoscope of challenges, opportunities and paradoxes Jewish men and women faced in their interactions with predominantly Gentile audiences.