Events in Jewish Studies

Spring 2013

Midrashic Mirrors: Creating Holiness in Intimacy and Imagery

Panel discussion, art exhibit, and live music performance

April 6, 2013 | 7:30 pm | MacIntosh Center, University Hall (room 3999)

Featuring Bryan Alexander, Anne Brener, Debra Linesch, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Darcy Vebber, and live music performance by Extreme Klezmer Makeover. 

Children Without a Shadow

Documentary screening with panel discussion

April 7, 2013 | 6:30 pm | Hilton 100 Auditorium

West Coast premiere of a Belgian documentary about the "hidden children" of the Holocaust.  Panel includes Shaul Harel, Bernard Balteau, and Anne Griffin.

 Fall 2012

Ongoing: Jewish Studies Sunday Book and Discussion Group

Meets monthly in the William H. Hannon Library

Click here for this semester's books as well as meeting dates and times.

The Wandering View: The Jewish Immigrant in World Cinema

Featuring Dr. Lawrence Baron

September 11, 2012 | 1:30 pm | ECC 1857 (First floor of University Hall)

Dr. Baron will speak on the depiction of Jewish immigrants in cinema during the past one hundred years.  Reception and book signing to follow.

 2012 Kristallnacht Commemoration

Keynote: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

November 8, 2012 | 6:30 pm | Roski Dining Commons

For any questions regarding Jewish Studies events or programming, please email JewishStudiesProgram@lmu.edu or call 310.338.1917