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Jewish Culture Series

Lectures about Jewish culture and heritage.

Includes lectures on the Israel-Palestine debate, Boston Jewish Film Festival and Holocaust remembrance.

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Crucial Endeavor: Catholic-Jewish Relations

November 6, 2002

German theologian Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, seeks to clarify the Church's position on several controversial issues.

Jewish Heritage on Beacon Hill

February 17, 2005

Ellen Smith, lecturer in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, discusses the history of Jewish immigration in Boston. Boston's first Jewish congregation established a synagogue in the South End in 1852.

Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism

Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz

October 23, 2007

Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz raises questions about our assumptions about race, identity and justice. She pays close attention the meaning of history as it pertains to Jews and Jewishness, including the immensely complicated issue of Jewish relatedness.

Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews

James Carroll argues that Christians took anti-Semitic forks in the road when they might well have written a less tragic history by choosing a different path.

Jewish Literature and its Place in World Culture

Maxim D. Shrayer

February 5, 2006

The Boston College Jewish Studies Program presents a panel discussion concerning Jewish literature and its role in culture. The panelists are the co-directors of the Jewish Studies Program, Dwayne E. Carpenter, professor of romance languages and literatures; and Maxim D.

Jewish-Christian Debate in the Early Modern Period

Daniel J. Lasker

PBS NewsHour: Israel and Palestine Series

PBS NewsHour: Israel and Palestine Series

Lectures curated around NewsHour's coverage of the Israel and Palestine conflict and the progress of US and other's efforts to move peace negotiations forward.

American Experience: America and the Holocaust Series

American Experience: America and the Holocaust Series

Lectures curated around American Experience: America and the Holocaust Series, which examines the complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust.

Boston Jewish Film Festival 2006 Series

Boston Jewish Film Festival 2006 Series

Lectures curated around the 2006 Boston Jewish Film Festival, which explores Jewish identity, the current Jewish experience, and the richness of Jewish culture in relation to a diverse modern world. Awake, Zion

Boston Jewish Film Festival 2005 Series

Boston Jewish Film Festival 2005 Series

Lectures curated around the 2005 Boston Jewish Film Festival which explores Jewish identity, the current Jewish experience, and the richness of Jewish culture in relation to a diverse modern world.

African American Perspective on Israel

September 10, 2009

Rev. Arthur C. Mosley, pastor of the Cathedral of Faith in southwest Atlanta, speaks about his 10-day trip to Israel through the American Jewish Committee's Project Interchange. He was one of 10 African American pastors on the trip from around the US.