Co-Sponsored Events for the 2012-2013 Academic Year

  Co-sponsored with The Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts 
     The Center for Middle Eastern Studies The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies
     The University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy  
      PANEL DISCUSSION   
     "In the Crucible of Geopolitics: Cutting Through the Fog of War in Syria"
      October 25, 2012

   Co-Sponsored with The Weintraub Israel Center's "Heartbeat of Israel" series
     "The US, Israel and the Challenge of Iran: Options and Constraints"
      Itamar Rabinnovich, Former Ambassador to Israel
      October 29, 2012
     Info: www.jewishtucson.org

   Co-Sponsored with The Institute for the Study of Religion & Culture (ISRC) Lecture Series
      October 30, 2012 - February 2013

  The Arizona Center for Judiac Studies Campus Lecture Series
     Co-Sponsored with The Weintraub Israel Center
      "Jewish children's periodicals in Poland 1918-1939"
      Dr. Adina bar-El, Author
      November 7, 2012

  Co-sponsored with The University of Arizona Group for Early Modern Studies
     "From Brunelleschi to Michelangelo to Sinan: 
      Mediterranean Perspectives on the Architect's Biography"
      November 9, 2012

  Co-sponsored with The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona 
     The UA Hillel Foundation  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
     "Narratives of Personal Experience: Musical Testimony and the Holocaust"
     November 13, 2012

 The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies' Campus Lecture Series
    November 29, 2012
    4:30 pm
    “Jewish Motifs in Russian Music”
    Dr. Alexander Tentser, Pianist 

   Co-Sponsored with The Weintraub Israel Center's "Heartbeat of Israel" series
      Photographer Gil Cohen Magen: A Photographic Study of the ultra-Orthodox in Israel
      January 28, 2013
      Info: www.jewishtucson.org

   Co-Sponsored with Temple Emanu-El
      The Albert T. Bilgray Memorial Lecture & Scholar in Residence Weekend
      Rabbi Arthur Green, Ph.D. Irving Brudnick Professor of Philosophy & Religion
      at Hebrew College and is Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University
      February 7, 2013     

   Co-Sponsored with the Water Sustainability Program
      and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
      9th annual WRCC Chocolate Fest
      February 15, 2013

   Co-Sponsored with the UA Honors College and the Center for Creative Photography
      A screening of Different Drummers - Appy Chandler, field producer for the film,
      will introduce the film, and Leonard Hammer will provide modern-day context. Q&A to follow.
      March 19, 2013

   Co-Sponsored with the Group for Early Modern Studies
      and the Department of History     
      "Kabbalah, Science, and Moral Cosmopolitanism in Enlightenment Jewish Thought"
       David Ruderman, Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
      at the University of Pennsylvania
      April 3, 2013

  Co-sponsored with Ruthann Pozez, The Tucson Jewish Community Center, The Jewish Federation of Southern AZ
     The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, The Marion and Gerald Gendell Holocaust Rememberance
     Fund and the Message of Hope Campaign at the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern AZ
     the 390th Memorial Meusum at the Pima Air & Space Museum
     The 2013 Yom HaShoah Holocaust Commemoration
      A Cinematic tribute to the holocaust survivors in Southern Arizona
     Visiting Scholar Howard Schwartz gave the Rabbinic Invocation
     April 7, 2013