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Lectures/Events
Current Events
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
COMMON CHORDS Workshop & Concert
Smith Recital Hall
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This special event will feature the Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad (guitar)of Junoon, South Asias most popular rock band, and internationally renowned Indian tabla player Samir Chatterjee in concert with acclaimed klezmer ethnographer and Jewish Studies Artist-in-Residence Yale Strom (and members of his band Hot Pstromi). This workshop and concert celebrate the common roots of Muslim and Jewish music. Salman Ahmad formed his band Junoon (They just played at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo.) in the early 1990's. Since then, Junoon has become a phenomenon on the South Asian music scene and beyond. Ahmad has combined Sufi poetry, Qawaali singing and improvisation with rock music and has used his popularity to promote humanitarian efforts throughout the world. As a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, one of his main goals is to foster mutual respect and understanding between Muslims and Jews by bringing these two groups of people together in concert settings. Through his dialogue, poetry and music, he demonstrates the many mutual "common chords" (especially music) these two ancient civilizations share. Yale Strom and Ahmad first performed together in February 2007 at Queens College in NYC as part of a large exhibit called "The Grandeur of Islamic Art in Image and Object." After the concert, they realized how effective their jamming together, a Jew and a Muslim, on stage was for the audience. They decided then to continue having these musical dialogues across the country, hoping to demonstrate and foster positive and constructive conversations between people from all walks of life. These great artists and friends now bring this spiritual and musical energy to San Diego State. Check back soon for more details.
Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:00pm
The AL and Norma Cooper Lecture
Israel and Palestine: Two States for Two People
Lecturer: Dr. Liora Lukitz
This is a fascinating topic which will acquaint the audience with the current situation as well as offering insights on the possible paths that negotiations may follow. Dr. Lukitz is a Fellow at the Iraq Study Group at the Truman Institute, Hebrew University at Jerusalem. She received her doctorate at the London School of Economics and Political Scienec and was a research fellow at Harvard. She currently is the visiting scholar-in-residence at the Department of Judaic Studies at SDSU.
Cost: Free.
At Temple Adat Shalom
15905 Pomerado Rd.
Poway, CA 92064
Phone: (858) 451-1200
Email: info@adatshalom.com
Past Events
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:30am
The Formation of Iraq: Seeds of Conflict
Liora Lukitz, Ph.D., Hebrew University
Winn Room, Coronado Library
For more information, phone Noah Hadas at 858-268-9200
Suggested donations: $6/session.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:30am
Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series
Presented by The Agency for Jewish Education and Coronado Friends of AJE
Sydney Taylor: "All-of-a-Kind Family" and the Jewish American Dream
Professor June Cummins, SDSU
Winn Room, Coronado Library
For more information, phone Noah Hadas at 858-268-9200
Suggested donations: $6/session.
Sunday November 4, 2007 2:00pm
The 22nd Annual Robert Siegel Memorial Lecture
Risa Levitt-Kohn and Rebecca Moore discuss their new book:
A Portable God: The Origin of Judaism and Christianity at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair:
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center,
JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS
4126 Executive Drive La Jolla, CA 92037
858.457.3030
www.lfjcc.org
This event is free and open to the public
Monday, November 12, 2007; 6:30 PM or 8 PM
Mystery and Mysticism at Qumran
By Esther Chazon, Ph.D., Director of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. At the San Diego Natural History Museum.
The Qumran community, the holy congregation of elect "Sons of Light," held that God revealed the deeper, hidden meaning of the Torah and Prophets to its teachers and members through a process of divinely inspired exegesis. The Qumran community's transcendent experience and intricate knowledge of the heavenly realm uncover an early link in the chain of tradition that developed into classical Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah.
Dr. Chazon serves as the Director of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She is a lecturer at The Hebrew University in the areas of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Literature of the Second Temple Period, Development of Jewish Liturgy. She earned her Ph.D. at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her publications include, "A Liturgical Document from Qumran and Its Implications: "Words of the Luminaries" (4QDibHam)"; "Is Divrei ha-me'orot a Sectarian Prayer?" in The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (Magnes Press, 1992).
Tickets for Museum Members $20; Nonmembers $25. tickets@sdnhm.org or call 619.255.0203
www.sdscrolls.org
Sponsored by Jewish Studies Program, San Diego State University
Monday December 3, 2007, 7:00pm
"Ebony and Ivory: The Interaction between Jews and African American Jazz Musicians in the first half of the 20th Century."
A lecture and musical performance with A. Spencer Barefield acclaimed jazz guitarist, composer, and producer and Jewish Studies Artist-in-Residence Yale Strom. At SDSU Music Bldg room 113.
This presentation will feature the music of African American and Jewish American composers and musicians exploring the rich cultural interaction of these two ethnic groups.The concert would include works by performers & composers such as Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, George Gershwin, Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Leonard Bernstein. Artie Shaw and others. Discussion would explore the cultures and the origin of musical elements such as harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, in the creation of this new 20th century art form. In addition the lecture/demo will look at the social tensions related to segregation and integration between African Americans and Jews both in the music and social worlds in the first half of the 20th century.
For further information and reservations contact jsprogram@projects.sdsu.edu or call 619-594-8695. Co sponsored by SDSU's Aficana Studies Department and the Anthropology Department. Seating is limited.
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