History & Current Affairs
Speaking in Tongues
Film Screening & TalkbackAudience Award for Best Documentary, San Francisco International Film Festival At a time when 31 states have passed “English Only” laws, four pioneering families put their ...Wednesday, Sep 15
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Rebecca Solnit
One of San Francisco’s most provocative writers, Solnit has investigated walking as a cultural activity (Wanderlust), the decline of San Francisco’s urban diversity following the Internet boom (Hol...Thursday, Sep 16
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NPR's Scott Simon
The Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon has reported from ground zero, New York, to ground zero in Kabul, from each of the fifty states and from all seven continents. He’s interviewed celebrities and...Tuesday, Sep 21
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Danny Siegel and Repairing the World
Danny Siegel is a Covenant-Award-winning educator, and the author of thirty books of poetry and prose that help you decide where, when, why, and how you can do your best Tikkun Olam (Repair of the ...Monday, Sep 27
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Through a Dog's Eyes
With Jennifer Arnold She’ll show you how your dog sees the world – and forever change the way you see your dog. Canine Assistants founder Jennifer Arnold teaches dogs to make choices as opposed to ...Monday, Oct 4
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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why
With Simon LeVay In 1991, Simon LeVay reported that he had found a difference in brain structure between gay and straight men. Now the British neuroscientist and author of When Science Goes Wrong h...Wednesday, Oct 6
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Rick Hodes: Saving the World One Child at a Time
Dr. Hodes arrived in Africa twenty-eight years ago to help victims of famine, never expecting to call this third-world continent home. Yet, he found his calling in Rwanda’s refugee camps, with Moth...Sunday, Oct 10
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Out on a Ledge: A Holocaust Story
With Eva Libitzky and Fred Rosenbaum Out on a Ledge is the compelling memoir of Eva Libitzky, co-authored by award-winning historian Fred Rosenbaum. It tells the rarely examined story of a Hasidic ...Thursday, Oct 14
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Mr. Good Enough: The Provocative Lori Gottlieb
Gottlieb, author of Marry Him, defends her controversial perspective on dating, marriage and achieving romantic happiness. The book grew out of her 2008 article in The Atlantic, in which she said t...Monday, Oct 25
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Ian Frazier
Travels in Siberia New Yorker writer Ian Frazier (The Great Plains, On the Rez and Dating Your Mom) brings you Siberia in unforgettable detail. In classic Frazier style, his new book brims with Mon...Wednesday, Oct 27
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Simon Wiesenthal: Legend of a Nazi Hunter
With Tom Segev, Ha’aretz Journalist and Historian Simon Wiesenthal was immortalized on film by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier. He was a Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to hunting down ...Wednesday, Nov 10
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Introducing Pulp History
Never-Before-Told Tales of Real Heroism Merging graphic novels and popular nonfiction, history is retold in an irresistible new format. Salon writers David Talbot and Gary Kamiya and illustrators S...Thursday, Dec 2
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The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Justices
With Professor Noah Feldman, Harvard University The Supreme Court has generated many dramatic stories but none more so than FDR’s plan to appoint Justices Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Stanley Ree...Monday, Dec 13
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The Man Who Killed Pluto
With Mike Brown Mike Brown is a self-described scientist geek, an astronomy professor and the man who was determined to discover our tenth “planet,” Eris. Thanks to him, the solar system now has on...Thursday, Jan 13
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Re-examining the Photography of Roman Vishniac
Maya Benton, Adjunct Curator, ICPVishniac’s photos are the most widely recognized visual record of Eastern European Jewish culture before it was destroyed in the Holocaust. His images shape our mem...Tuesday, Jan 18
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The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
With Deborah L. Rhode Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed le...Monday, Jan 31
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Joie de Vivre's Chip Conley
Innovation and Entrepreneurialism At 26, Conley transformed a 50s “no-tell motel” into the Phoenix Hotel – a legendary rock ’n’ roll destination catering to the likes of David Bowie, Linda Ronstadt...Thursday, Feb 17
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When Jews Do Bad Things
Dr. Erica Brown, Director for Adult Education, The Partnership for Jewish Life Madoff. Spitzer. Abramoff. Never before in Jewish history have a former prime minister and a president of Israel been ...Wednesday, Jan 26
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Modern Day Prophets: Buber and MLK
With Professors Paul Mendes-Flohr and Clayborne Carson The Inaugural Stanford University Charles Michael Lecture at the JCCSF Martin Buber and Martin Luther King, Jr. were two of the foremost spiri...Wednesday, May 11
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Wagner Through a Jewish Lens
The Enigma of Wagner’s Genius and Anti-Semitism With Panelists: Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University Randy Cohen, The New York Times column “The Ethicist” Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle Music...Thursday, May 26
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