RSVP by Wednesday, March 10, at 4:30 p.m. to kamii@kamii.org
With RSVP: Adults: $12; Children $6
After Wednesday or at the door: Adults: $15; Children $7.50
8:00 p.m. Shabbat Service
8:45 p.m. Lecture: "Salvaged Pages"
Ms. Zapruder will discuss journals and diaries from victims of the Holocaust and their importance and relevance to us today.
Saturday, March 13
Lunch will be available
following Shabbat Services and Kiddush.
Reservations required,
please call 773-924-1234 or email kamii@kamii.org
1:15 p.m. Memoir and Personal and Family Narrative Workshop with Alexandra Zapruder
Ms. Zapruder will continue the discussion of diaries and include a workshop session. This is for everyone who wants to record their own experience or family history, but doesn’t know how to begin. Participants will learn about personal writing of all kinds, including diaries and journals, individual memoirs, family narratives and the like. You will leave with suggestions and ideas on how to get started, and resources for books and online materials to support your efforts. You are welcome to bring laptops if you wish.
Sunday, March 14
11:00 a.m. Religious School Program
This program is designed for 7
th- to 10th-grade students and their parents. They will view the film, "I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust" and join a discussion with Ms. Zapruder following the film.
1:00 p.m. Religious School Teacher Workshop
Ms. Zapruder will lead a workshop to help teachers learn to use diaries, family histories, and journals in teaching the Holocaust
Alexandra Zapruder
began her career as the researcher for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s exhibition for young visitors, Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story
. After the museum opened, she became the Assistant Director of the Oral History Department, working with Holocaust survivors to record their testimonies. She left the Holocaust Museum to pursue her Master’s Degree in Education at Harvard University from 1994-95 and returned in 1996 to join the development team for the traveling version of Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story.
In 1992, Alexandra began researching and collecting diaries written by young people during the Holocaust. Ten years later, her work resulted in the publication of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, which won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. She also served as the guest curator for an exhibition of original young writers’ Holocaust diaries, entitled Private Writings, Public Records, which was on view at Holocaust Museum Houston from October 2001 to February 2002. She wrote and co-produced a documentary film for young audiences based on Salvaged Pages, which aired on MTV in May, 2005. The documentary was awarded the Jewish Image Award for Best Television Special by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and was nominated for two Emmy awards.
From 2002-2005, Alexandra directed the conceptual development of a children’s visual arts center at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She is currently writing and editing a book about Nazi ideology for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and beginning work on a novel.
The Jacob J. Weinstein Committee was created by the congregants of KAM Isaiah Israel to honor the memory of Rabbi Jacob Weinstein, leader of the congregation from 1939 to 1967. He was a spiritual leader as well as an internationally known scholar, preacher and social activist. The Committee endeavors to honor Rabbi Weinstein by sponsoring Scholars-in-Residence and other weekends that explore some of his areas of interest, particularly social action, the arts and Jewish thought and culture.
Previous Weinstein Events
The Jacob J. Weinstein Committee is delighted to invite you to
"The Promised Land:
A Weekend of study, participation,
and open-mic performance"
featuring Scholar-in-Residence
Rachel Havrelock
Scholar-in-Residence
and
Yuri Lane
Human beatbox and actor
October 23 - 25, 2009
Rachel Havrelock is assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Havrelock specializes in biblical narrative, the intersection of geography and identiy and gender in the Bible.
Rachel received her B.A. with honors in Hebrew and English Literature, and completed her graduate work in the Joint Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union.
She co-authored Women on the Biblical Road: Ruth, Naomi and the Female Journey with her B.A. advisor, Dr. Mishael Caspi, contributed to The Torah: A Women's Commentary and is currently working on River Jordan: The Mythic History of a Dividing Line, which consideres the Jordan river as a border in the Bible, in Rabbinic and Christian Exegesis and in Jewish and Palestinian nationalism.
Her other scholarly interests include, the Hebrew Bible, New Testament and cultural dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is a founding member of the Jewish-Muslim Initiative at UIC. Earlier this year, Rachel co-hosted a three-part television series, Who Was Jesus, on the Discovery Channel.
Yuri Lane began on the stages of the American Conservatory Theater and the Berkeley Repatory Theater. His television credits include Nash Bridges, Party of Five, Mix It Up and PBS' Independent Lens. Yuri currently stars in the beatbox play From Tel Aviv to Ramallah, which premiered in 2003, toured for four years across the US and enjoyed extended runs in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington DC. The play will be a feature of the Chicago Humanities Festival in November 2009, and international performances include Helsinki, Jerusalem and England.
Yuri also has two othere beatbox plays, Soundtrack City, which chronicles the shifting landscape of the American city from the perspective of developers and local residents, and his most recent play, The Making of a Human Beatbox, which records his story of growing up in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and emerging as a hip-hop Jew.
KAM Isaiah Israel is thrilled that both Rachel and Yuri are members of our congregation.
Friday, October 23
8:00 p.m. - Following Shabbat Services: "The Promised Land in Biblical Sources"
Where is the Promised Land located in the Hebrew Bible?
What are its coordinates and what is the nature of its population?
Such questions tend to be taken for granted and the answers to them assumed. This talk by Bible scholar Rachel Havrelock shows the multiple, competing ideas about the Promised Land in the Hebrew Bible and reveals which biblical notions have been deployed politcally and which repressed.
Saturday, October 24
Lunch will be available following Shabbat Services and Kiddush. Please contact the office for reservations at kamii@kamii.org or 773.924.1234
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. - Beit Midrash/Study House on Texts about the Promised Land
In this interactive event that simulates the ancient Jewish mode of studying texts, small groups will meet to read, consier and analyze biblical, rabbinic and modern texts related to the idea of the Promised Land. Following the small group study, everyone will reconvene for discussion and debate.
4:00 p.m. - Open-Mic and Performance by Yuri Lane
Join host human beatbox Yuri Lane for a performance and open-mic open to all ages and all people to express their artistic visions of the Promised Land
Sunday, October 25
10:30 a.m. - "The Promised Land in Jewish Political Thought"
Discuss how the Promised Land has figured as a political concept in different periods of Jewish political thought.
Previous Weinstein Events
Jacob J. Weinstein Committee -
Schneiderman Social Justice Committee Weekend
For You Were Strangers:
Judaism, Immigration Reform and Human Rights
November 14 to 16, 2008
Weekend Program
Friday Evening, November 14, 2008
8:00 PM - "Tragedy in Postville, Iowa: From a Social and Economic Perspective" Esther Lopez, United Food & Commerical Workers Union, followed by a presentation by a resident of Postville
Saturday, November 15, 2008
9:30 AM - Torah Study with Rabbi Darryl Crystal
11:00 AM - Services with a D'var Torah by Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf
12:15 PM - Lunch (no charge, please reserve with the office via email or call 773-924-1234)
1:15 PM - American Jews & U.S. Immigration Policy: From Exclusion to Participation Susan Gzesh, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
2:00 PM - Chicago Organizations and Immigration Policy Panel
Maricela Garcia, Latinos United
Jennifer Soule-Hill, Chicago Metropolitan Sanctuary Alliance
Sister Joanne Persch, Sisters of Mercy
Tom Walsh, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Sunday, November 16, 2008
10:30 AM - "What Would an Ideal U.S. Immigration Policy Look Like?" Oscar Chacon, National Association of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC)
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