Announcements – June 20, 2021 ______CSP We are pleased to be a new partner congregation of the Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program (CSP). Please join us at an upcoming program!

Barbra on Film: The Evolution of a Jewish American Film Icon Sunday, June 27, 7:00 pm EDT (online)

Join Dr. Eric Goldman as we learn how rose to superstardom as a vocalist but went on to prove herself as a versatile actor and outstanding director. We will look at Streisand’s cinematic work, focusing on how she and her Jewish background influenced the films in which she appeared, even when she took no credit for her participation as cowriter. Movies to be studied include (1973), A Star Is Born (1976), (1983), The Prince of Tides (1991) and (1996). Dr. Eric Goldman is an adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a known scholar and lecturer on Yiddish, Israeli and Jewish film. A noted film educator, Dr. Goldman hosts “Jewish Cinematheque” on the Jewish Broadcasting Service (seen monthly across the nation). Dr. Goldman received a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University and was a fellow of the Max Weinreich Center for Eastern European Jewish Studies at Columbia University. He is former director of the Jewish Media Service, which was a national clearinghouse on film and television for the North American Jewish community and was curator of film for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. His passion for films was first sown during his childhood on Sunday afternoons at the double feature matinee. While attending college at Temple University in Philadelphia with the intentions of becoming a medical doctor, Dr. Goldman found himself in a course entitled History of the Middle East. In addition to studying traditionally through texts, the class also was shown movies. The class was studying the Algerian War and watched a movie on the topic. Dr. Goldman said he learned a lesson. “The power of cinema was opened up. The film gave me a visual understanding of history. I realized that film was not just entertainment but edutainment.” At that point, Dr. Goldman knew he wanted to pull together his two loves–film and Jewish education. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUoce2qrT0iGtXQg735PDV_dNlt5OG0fpla

City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement Thursday, June 24, 3:30 pm EDT (online)

Join Dr. Sara Yael Hirshhorn as we learn about the more than 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the territories captured by the State of Israel during the Six Day War in 1967. Comprising 15 percent of the settler population today, these immigrants have established major communities, transformed domestic politics and international relations, and committed shocking acts of terrorism. They demand attention in both Israel and the United States, but little is known about who they are and why they chose to leave America to live at the center of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor in Israel Studies at the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University. Her expertise focuses on Diaspora-Israel relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Israeli ultra-nationalist movement. Her first book, City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Harvard, 2017), hailed as a landmark contribution to the field, was the winner of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature Choice Award, a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award, and a nominee for the 2021 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtfu6oqjstGNYF4N- K3u4vl1MKqCTwxkT7?utm_source=CSP&utm_campaign=9b38cad7d0- EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_03_04_55_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ee28fcba1- 9b38cad7d0-386548940

The Battle Over Holocaust Memory in Lithuania Tuesday, June 22, 6:00 pm EDT (online)

Join us as we commemorate this day in history with authors Grant Gochin and Silvia Foti who became the unlikeliest of allies. A Jew and a Christian, Grant and Silvia joined together in the fight to get the Lithuanian government to acknowledge that those who they had been honoring as heroes, including Silivia’s own grandfather, had been responsible for the murder of thousands of Jews. “Operation Barbarossa”, launched by the Nazis exactly 80 years ago on June 22, 1941, marked the beginning of the “The Holocaust by Bullets” and the annihilation of Jewish communities in Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus. Over 2.2 million Jews and Roma were executed by the Einsatzgruppen, Nazi mobile killing units, and their willing local assistants in over 1,893 execution sites in 7 countries. Until today, despite the incomprehensible dimensions of these crimes, this chapter of the Holocaust has received too little attention. In Lithuania, politicians and revisionists are actively involved in covering up the crimes committed by their citizens and “war heroes”. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtcuytrT8sGtLHiL2LE4t0ryd0cDgd4kOQ?utm_source=CSP&utm_ campaign=9b38cad7d0- EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_03_04_55_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ee28fcba1- 9b38cad7d0-386548940

Coherent Judaism Tuesday, June 22, 3:30 pm EDT (online)

Join Rabbi Dr. Shai Cherry argues that theological pluralism–maintaining different ideas about God–lies at the root of Judaism being more about deed than creed. He will discuss how these contradictory theologies explain certain contemporary legal inequities. Rabbi Dr. Shai Cherry serves as rabbi and Creative Educational Officer of Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. After eighteen years in academics, Cherry shifted from university teaching to the pulpit in 2019. Rav Shai’s early academic research focused on Judaism and Darwinism. His first book, Torah through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times, redirected his focus from creation to revelation—how is God’s word and will understood in changing circumstances? Finally, how do we respond to what we understand to be God’s will? To address that question, Cherry attended the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and was ordained in 2009. His latest work, Coherent Judaism: Constructive Theology, Creation, and Halakhah brings these threads together to offer a vision of 21st-century Judaism. Formerly on the faculties of Vanderbilt University and the University of San Diego, he is the featured lecturer for The Great Courses’ “Introduction to Judaism”. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf- mpqjsrG937RRFcAof2_lXkjLDUrf9c?utm_source=CSP&utm_campaign=1d53b45d62- EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_03_04_55_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ee28fcba1- 1d53b45d62-386548940

Another Momentous Year: Annual Supreme Court Review Monday, June 21, 3:30 pm EDT (online)

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky takes us through an amazing year of cases decided (and still to be decided) by the Roberts Court and tells us what to expect in the coming term. Cases include voting rights, First Amendment rights of students and charitable organizations, the Affordable Care Act, free exercise of religion, and police searches of homes. Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished. Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law. He is the author of fourteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State (with Howard Gillman) (Oxford University Press 2020), and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (to be published by Norton in 2021). He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court. In January 2021, he was named President-elect of the Association of American Law Schools. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcuqgpzojHtZA3c9R-s759FK9jl- WzkV8?utm_source=CSP&utm_campaign=b2982f255d- EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_03_04_55_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ee28fcba1- b2982f255d-386548940

Community Programs Documentary “A Fish Tale” and Filmmaker Q&A Tuesday, June 15 to Monday, June 21 – Virtual Screening Monday, June 21, 7:30 pm EDT – Filmmaker Q&A on Zoom (online program from Belmont World Film)

Join our friends at Belmont World Film as they observe World Refugee Awareness Month by streaming the documentary A FISH TALE, about a family from Ghana that moves to Israel, where the husband hopes to learn how to farm fish from an Israeli fish farmer. The film was shot over the course of 10 years by Israeli filmmaker Emmanuelle Mayer, who will participate in a Q&A on Monday, June 21. https://watch.eventive.org/belmontworldfilmwram/play/6090782b1fc33f009fbe3243

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