The Election and the Jewish Vote (a.k.a. Obama and the Jewish Question)
| What | Staff/Trustees Lectures and Seminars Students GTU Special Events Faculty Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies General Public |
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| When |
10-19-2008 05:00 PM
10-19-2008 07:30 PM
10-19-2008 from 05:00 pm to 07:30 pm |
| Where | Chapel of the Great Commission, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, 94709 |
| Contact Name | Center for Jewish Studies |
| Contact Email | cjs@gtu.edu |
| Contact Phone | 510/649-2482 |
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A moderated panel discussion about issues related to the upcoming Presidential Election with:
- Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior editor of Commentary magazine (on leave); Guest Scholar at Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, NJ; author of The Return of Anti-Semitism
- Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine; author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right
- Michael Berenbaum, American scholar, professor, writer, and filmmaker; Project Director of the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC
- Maria Echaveste, former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and White House Deputy Chief-of-Staff in the second Clinton term; senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and lecturer at UC-Berkeley School of Law
This event is co-sponsored by the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at GTU and The Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program at UC-Berkeley.