Currently Browsing: June 2012

GSFC eVite: WALLY!

Andrew Shea’s fascinating documentary Portrait of Wally opened Friday night (June 15) at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center, & I will be doing a Q&A after their last screening on Thursday (June 21).  Portrait of Wally will be playing at GSFC all week on a “special run.” To order tickets, click HERE for complete GSFC schedule […]

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Spertus: Daniel Greene

From Tzivi’s June ’12 Spotlight: Ah, Spring! Mild weather returns to Chicago and our lecture halls overflow with fascinating guest speakers. On May 6, I went to Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies to hear Daniel Greene read from his 2011 book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity. Greene is […]

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NU: Leora Batnitzky

From Tzivi’s June ’12 Spotlight: On April 19, I headed up to Northwestern to hear Princeton Professor Leora Batnitzky speak on “Private Faith, Public Religion: Tensions in Modern Jewish Thought.” In contrast to Greene, Batnitzky’s focus is more European than American, and her questions are more philosophical than historical. Beginning with the rise of nation […]

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ORT 2012: Mindy Weisel

From Tzivi’s June ’12 Spotlight: Sunday, April 22 found me at Bryn Mawr Country Club in Lincolnwood for ORT’s annual “Lunch with a View.” This year’s special guest was Mindy Weisel, author of Touching Quiet: Reflections in Solitude, and editor of the collection Daughters of Absence: Transforming a Legacy of Loss. Weisel is an artist, […]

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June ’12 Spotlight

Ah, Spring! Mild weather returns to Chicago and our lecture halls overflow with fascinating guest speakers. On May 6, I went to Spertus to hear Daniel Greene read from his 2011 book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity. Greene is the Vice President for Research and Academic Programs at […]

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PORTRAIT OF WALLY

On May 2, just a few weeks ago, an unnamed telephone bidder promised Sotheby’s $119,922,500 for the 1895 version of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, thus making it the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. Rumor has it thatThe Scream was purchased by the Royal Family of Qatar, but as far as I know that […]

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