Tuesday, September 27, 2016 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Hadar Harris will deliver the second annual Human Rights Lecture of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice on criminal justice, human rights,… Continue Reading
Thursday, September 22, 2016 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Layering theater, film, poetry, prayer and Hip Hop, Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone activist Corrina Gould and educator-artist-activist Ariel Luckey will jointly perform connections between sacred… Continue Reading
Thursday, April 14, 2016 l 6:30 p.p. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Berman Room Founded in 2005, Combatants for Peace is made up of former Palestinian militants and Jewish Israeli soldiers leading a nonviolent, bi-national movement against the occupation… Continue Reading
Sunday, April 10, 2016 l 7 p.m. l JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco For the sixth annual Social Justice Lecture we will be joined by Dr. Chen Alon – actor, facilitator, theater director, and teacher – who has been… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 29, 2015 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room and Xavier Room Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one that emerged in the 15th century. Saved by Language… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 15, 2015 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room The movie Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 1, 2015 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Layering theater, dance, spoken word, and an original score inspired by Hip Hop, Klezmer, and Mexican folk music, Amnesia tells the story of a young… Continue Reading
Thursday, September 17, 2015 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Growing up in the cultural diversity of New York City, artist Vanessa Hidary’s experiences as a Sephardic Jew with close friends from different ethnic and… Continue Reading
Sunday, February 4, 2015 l 7 p.m. l JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco For the fifth annual Social Justice Lecture Jerusalem’s Rabbi Andrew Sacks, a long-time activist at the forefront of human rights struggles in Israel and Palestine, working… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 9, 2014 l 5 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Using the two creation-of-humanity narratives in Genesis and her personal efforts to understand the genesis of her own gender, Joy Ladin will lead us through… Continue Reading
