Moshiah Now: Perspectives on Jewish Messianism
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 1:00 PM
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
What is the Jewish concept of the Messiah? Join scholars Moshe Halbertal and Nathaniel Deutsch in this eye-opening discussion.
Fred Astren: “Medieval Jewish History and the New Mediterranean Studies
November 9, 2009, 4:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Fred Astren, Chair of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University, holds degrees in Medieval History, Arabic, and Near Eastern Studies.
Tasha Oren: “I’m Going to Make You Love Me: History and Israel’s Tele-Imagination”
Television has taken part in articulation of cultural and national identity all over the globe. How is a sense of “the local” changing as media grows increasingly mobile and new global television forms dominate world-wide programming? In Israel, a debate about television’s birth escalated to a national argument over occupation of Palestinian territories, relations with Arab neighbors, and it’s internal, conflicting visions of shared culture and identity.