Spring Semester 2002 

January 10, 7:30 p.m. 
Professor David Kaufman, Hebrew Union College 
"Jews, Film, and Popular Culture" 

February 6, 7:00 p.m. 
Avigdor Shinan, Chairman of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Orange County Community Scholar Program 
"Folktales from the Midrash" 

March 21, 7:30 p.m. 
Dr. Adam Rubin, Hebrew Union College. 
"Our Collective Memory of the Shtetl" 

April 11, 7:30 p.m. 
Dr. Reuven Firestone, Hebrew Union College. 
"Islam on the Jews and Judaism: What do the texts really say?" 

May 23, 7:30 p.m. 
Cindy Paley, Jewish educator/musician 
"Jewish Education through Music" 

Rabbi Ed Feinstein, Valley Beth Shalom, "Old Questions, New Answers - A Jewish Response to Our Search for Meaning" 

Professor Bruce Phillips, "Are Jews Becoming More Like Other Americans, Or Are They Still Distinctive?" 

Rabbi Michael Beals, "B'Nai Tikvah Congregation, "The Mammas and the Pappas: Why Should the Matriarchs Be in the Amidah?" Or  "Women in Judaism" 

Professor Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College, "Judaism and Sex" 

Spring Semester 2001 

Professors Milton Brown and Marc Dollinger, Pasadena City College, "Black/Jewish Relations" The Jewish Studies Program received a grant from the California Council on the Humanities for this lecture. 

Ken Burt, Political Director, California Federation of Teachers, "The Role of Jews in Organizing Labor in Los Angeles" 

Professor Steven Lowenstein, University of Judaism, "How the Jews Got from Poland to Morocco to Yemen" 

Professor Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, "Jewish Dybbuks" 

Professor Mirlyan Glazer, University of Judaism, "Women, Exile, and Homeland: The New Literature of Israeli Women Writers" 

 Fall Semester 2000 

Professor John Roth, Claremont McKenna College, "Women and the Holocaust" 

Professor Gary Gilbert, Claremont McKenna College, "Messianic Judaism From the Second Century to the Present" 

Professor David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College, "Judaism: Where Have We Come From? Where are We Going? 

Professor Amy Hill Shevitz, California State University, Northridge, "Unity and Divergence: The Origins of Denominationalism in American Judaism" 

Spring Semester 2000 

Professor Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University, "Why Righteous Gentiles Rescued Jews During the Holocaust" 

Professor Samuel Edelman, California State University, Chico, "Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust" 

Professor Leonard Dinnerstein, University of Arizona, "American AntiSemitism Then and Now" 

Professor Lezlie Knox, California State University, Long Beach, "Jews in Medieval Europe"