Compiled by Laurie Baron, Ph.D.
Sunday, July 5
11 a.m. Josh Aronson and Mordecai Paldiel, “Orchestra of Exiles,” Sousa Mendes Foundation.
11 a.m., David Mendoza, “The Portuguese Nationality Law,” Sephardic World.
12 p.m. Paul Liptz, “Creating a Nation: French Jews,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Monday, July 6
10 a.m. Avi Liberman, “Land of Milk and Funny,” American Jewish University.
10 a.m. Yedida Eisenstat, “In the Wake of the Golden Calf: Is God Punishing Us,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
1:30 p.m. Kalman Weiser, “Where is the Capital of Yiddishland,” (in Yiddish), YIVO.
5 p.m. Mehnaz Afridi, Nicole Martin, Rori Picker Neiss, Malka Simkovich, Vanessa White, “Towards a Better Future: An Interfaith Conversation,” Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Catholic Theological Union, Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis, Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center.
Tuesday, July 7
11 a.m. Andrew Dolkart, Ken Lustbader, and Jay Shockley, “Exploring New York’s Jewish LGBT,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12 p.m. Laureen Nussbaum, “From Anne Frank’s Amsterdam to Present Day Seattle,” Holocaust Center for Humanity.
12:30 p.m. Joe Uziel, “New Insights on the Archeology of Jerusalem,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
4:30 p.m. Harry Ballan, “Is Jewish Liberal Education Possible on Zoom?” The Tikvah Fund.
4:30 p.m. Sarah Bunin Benor, and Steven F. Windmueller, “Resilience in a Time of Crisis: The Jewish Community’s Short-, Medium-, and Long-Term Response to the Current Pandemic”
6 p.m. Erroll Southers and Jeffrey Herbst, “Justice We Shall Pursue: Racism, Protest, and Police Reform,” American Jewish University.
Wednesday, July 8
9 a.m. David Ilan, “The Archaeology of Hallucinogenic Substances in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean,” Hebrew Union College.
11 a.m. “Conversation with Pamela Nadell,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute,
12 p.m. Michael Berenbaum, Arthur Green, and Ariel Evan Mayse, “A Conversation about Hasidism,” American Jewish University,
Thursday July 9
1:30 p.m. Ronald Robboy, “Barton Brothers, Mickey Katz, and Others: Yiddish-English Bilingual Parody Songs,” YIVO.
4 p.m. Brett Sokol “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet’s Summer Camp 1977,” Yiddish Book Center.
5 p.m. Marc Dollinger, “Jews and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s,” Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance and Skokie Valley Agudath.
6 p.m. Laurie Baron, “The Transgressive Third Generation of Jewish Female Film Directors,” San Diego Center for Jewish Culture.
7:30 p.m. Daniel Matt, “Gems of the Zohar,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Friday, July 10
7 a.m. Marni Davis, “Atlanta’s Old Jewish Neighborhood,” The Bremen Museum.
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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com