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Washington Hebrew Congregation

AMRAM Sunday Scholar Series

This distinguished community forum offers programs by gifted and thoughtful scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Throughout each year, the Amram Sunday Scholar Series' great variety of speakers and topics offers all who attend the reward of intellectual discoveries in many areas of knowledge and research. The Scholar Series meets on Sunday mornings, as well as other designated times for both Fall and Spring semesters.

Amram Sunday Scholar Series 2007-2008 Schedule
[Please click on an event to obtain more information.]

Date

Program

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Premier Event 2007-2008
Walter Isaacson - Einstein: His Creativity, Religious Thinking and Relationship to Judaism

November 11
10:30AM

Aaron Lansky, author of Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

November 18
10:30AM

Leon Kass, M.D., Ph.D. on "Science, Religion, and the Human Future"

December 2
10:30AM

Richard Kurin - The Hope Diamond: The Jewish Connection

January 18
8PM

Special Interfaith Shabbat Service Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with Guest Speaker Julian Bond

January 27
10:30AM

Rabbi Uri Regev on “Judaism, Power and Moral Restraint”

March 9
10;30AM

Naomi Harris Rosenblatt speaking on Defiance: An Essential of Jewish Identity

March 16
10;30AM

Ron Dermer on “Israel at 60

April 8
7PM

Reading of Noor...a new play by Akbar Ahmed

April 15
7:30PM

Rabbi Richard Hirsch on The Jewish State After 60 Years: It’s Impact on our People Worldwide

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Deborah Dash Moore on GI Jews

May 4
10:30AM

Michael Makovsky on Churchill’s Promised Land

Location
Unless otherwise noted, all Amram Sunday Scholar Series events are open to the public and are held at
The Washington Hebrew Congregation
3935 Macomb Street NW
Washington, DC 20016  
212-362-7100