SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University has announced its public schedule for 2015:
• Its Spring lecture series “Israel in the 21st Century: New Hopes, New Challenges,” will feature noted scholars: Dr. Mark A. Heller, Principal Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv; Dr. Mohammed Wattad, Assistant Professor at Zefat College’s School of Law in Israel, a legal scholar specializing in issues surrounding war, torture and terrorism and a former legal clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel; and Dr. David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute and Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process, an adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry on the Middle East.
• Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition, curated by SDSU’s Jewish Studies Program Director,
Dr. Risa Levitt Kohn, opening March 10, 2015 at The California Science Center in Los Angeles. This traveling exhibition, different in content and design than the San Diego show of 2007, opened in New York City in 2011 and has been on display in Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City. The exhibition features over 600 objects, including ten Dead Sea Scrolls and is the largest collection of Israeli archaeological artifacts ever exhibited outside of Israel.
• A special musical event featuring Artist in Residence, Yale Strom, who will perform with some of Southern California’s finest musicians in a program exploring the connection between Latin rhythms and Jewish song.
• “Muslims & Jews in Modern Cinema,” a fascinating and timely new class taught by Visiting Israeli Professor, Dr. Sariel Birnbaum.
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Preceding provided by the SDSU Jewish Studies Program