[Jewish] Donna Devine to give annual Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture this Sunday 11/1
Steven Nathan
snathan at hampshire.edu
Thu Oct 29 21:22:19 EDT 2009
The Annual Yitzhak Rabin Memorial lecture will be given this Sunday
November 1 at 1:30 pm at the Jewish Community of Amherst by Professor
Donna Divine. In her talk, entitled "Mishnah Impossible: Zionist
attempts to Transform the Meaning of Jewish Identity," Prof. Devine will
discuss what the Zionists had in mind when they created the Jewish state
and how that has changed since Israel was founded. Prof. Divine is the
Morningstar Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government at
Smith College. She has recently returned from a research trip to
Israel. A question and answer period will follow.
The event is free and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments
will be served.
For info and directions go to www.j-c-a.org
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Steven P. Nathan
Campus Rabbi
Hampshire
College
Office of Spiritual Life -- Box SA
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone: (413) 559-5282
Fax: (413) 559-5663
snathan at hampshire.edu
/"The more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the prophets, the
more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of the prophets
sought to convey: that morally speaking there is no limit to the concern
one must feel for the suffering of human beings. /
/ /
/"It also became clear to me that in regard to cruelties committed in
the name of a free society, some are guilty, all are responsible."/
/ /
-Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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