IJIU Events 2015 - 2016
Thursday, October 15, 2015, 12:15 -1:30 p.m.
Documentary Film - "Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust"
"Rescue in The Philippines" is a one-hour documentary of the pre-viously untold story of how the five Frieder brothers, Cincinnati businessmen making two-for-a-nickel cigars in pre-WWII Manila, together with Manuel Quezon, the charismatic first president of the Philippines, Paul McNutt, US High Commissioner and former gover-nor of Indiana (preparing for his own presidential campaign) and an ambitious Army Colonel named Dwight Eisenhower - helped 1,200 Jews escape the Nazis and immi-grate to the Philippines.
Thursday, September 10, 2015, 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Helen Epstein - Electronic Publishing
Helen Epstein (www.helenepstein.com) is the author of six books of non-fiction, editor and translator of three more, and the co-founder of Plunkett Lake Ebooks (www.plunkettlakepress.com), an electronic press that publishes classics of non-fiction. PLP has just epublished its 101st book and its list includes several of Helen's own titles.
In this noon talk, she will discuss how she and her husband got into electronic publishing and take you through the process from A to Z, sing their first original ebook, Archivist on a Bicycle (which you can download to your Kindle, ipad or iphone free of charge from amazon.com) as an example.
*Q and A will follow the presentation.
14 April, 2015
Healthcare Ethics: War and Trauma
13 April, 2015
Berlin Jewish Hospital: Exhibition and Lecture
27 March, 2015
Interfaith Passover Seder
27 March, 2015
Jewish Life in Contemporary Europe
19 March, 2015
Bio-Ethics Lecture Series
Religion, Ethics, and Emerging Debates in Healthcare:
Controversies and Perspectives
26-27 September 2014
The Visual Autobiography of Sarah Lightman
IJIU Events 2013-2014
4 September, 2014
Bio-Ethics Lecture Series
Religion, Ethics, and Dying:
Controversies and Perspectives
9 April 2014
Paris/Auschwitz Post-Study Abroad Trip Reception
8 April 2014
Passover Interfaith Seder
April 3-9, 2014
Jewish Education Week
3 April 2014
Hatufim Screening and Talk by Dr. Sharon Shahaf
11 September 2013
The Days of Awe: Music of Memory and Celebration
by the Afro-Semitic Experience
IJIU Events 2012-2013
18 April 2013
"The Sword, the Pen, and the Uterus: Contemporary Latin American Women Creating Inclusive Public Spheres"
Dalia Wassner
14 April 2013
"On Writing"
Savyon Liebrecht
13 April 2013
"The Middle East: Challenges of Reporting from the Front Line"
A lecture by Neil Lazarus
6 December 2012
"Image of the Jew in Arab Cinema"
7 December 2012
"Arab Spring, Causes and Processes"
Sariel Birnbaum
27 November 2012
"Religious Extremism and its Impact on National Security"
A lecture by Amos Guiora
4 October 2012
Literary Festival: "Poems of Family, the Life of the Soul"
Merle Feld
27 September 2012
The Vulgar Bulgars
24 September 2012
"Klezmer Revival in Germany"
A lecture by Frederick Lubich
