Robert Pinsky

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• Our Aging Body

• Shylock’s Passion
  
• Shylock and the Drama of the Scapegoat

• Rabbi Judah L. Magnus, Ethical Zionism
• Attempts at Jewish Arab Cooperation

• Blessing our Children

• The Nuremberg Trials

• The Nuremberg Trials

• The Nuremberg Laws

• My Yom Kippur War Experience
• Israel as Seen in the Eyes of Reformed Muslims and Arabs

• Why Print Media will Survive and an Independent Jewish Press is More Important than Ever

• Jews in Focus

• The Jews of Cuba

• Birthright Experiences

• What and Why is Modern Jewish Philosophy
• Martin Buber and I and Thou
• Franz Rosenzweig and Jewish and Christian Renewal
• Emmanuel Levinas and the Primacy of Ethics

• The Memoir of the Israeli novelist Amos Oz: A tale of Love and Darkness

• Holocaust Denial in the 21st Century-A Clear and Present Danger or the Contemporary Equivalent of Flat Earth Theory

• The Leadership of George Marshall

• Social Justice in the World

• Daring Daughter of the Covenant

• Past as Prologue:  The Historically Relevant Meaning of Jihad

• Conversations

• Key Jewish Issues

• Women and Spirit

• The First Freedom: The Threat to Freedom of Speech Today

• Photography: Basic elements of artistic composition – Images from the 2009 dedication of the Everett Centre

• Jewish Heretis from Abraham to Amichai
• Jewish Roots, Humanist Wings:  New Possibilities

• Reclaiming Jewish Heritage in Poland

• Hiding and Seeking:  Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust

• AIPAC

• Finding a Spiritual Home
• Tribal vs. Covenantal Identity
• God, Prayer and Ritual for the Jewish Skeptic

• Jews in Colonial America and Revolutionary America
• Washington and American Jews

• From One, Many:  Religious and Cultural Pluralism in America
• American Judaism:  Problems, Prospects, Opportunities

• Recollection from the Nuremberg Trials

• Human Rights, the Holocaust and Genocide Prevention
• Religious Intolerance Worldwide

• Literary readings

• Literary readings

• Literary readings

• Follow up discussion to the Hall of Philosophy
• What we don’t talk about when we focus on Israeli Security

• Both Sides of the Family

• The Other Rosenbergs

• A Retrospective of 30 years of filmmaking of lesser known Jewish Heroes

• Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: Imagine the Possibilities

• The Threat of a Nuclear Iran

• The Lower East Side: the Urban Landscape of Judaism
• Inventing Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Brooklyn

• Gender in the Hebrew Bible

• Jews, Justice and the Civil War

• End of Life Issues

• The Seduction of Eve:  Why Did She Do it?
• The Problem is Monogamy: The Jewish , Christian and Muslim Conflict over Jerusalem

• From the Holocaust to Abu Ghraib:   What Animates Indivdual Acts of Courage and Conscience in Dangerous Circumstances
• Israel’s Conscientious Objectors

• The Road to Reconciliation:  How the Church Came to Terms with its Anti-Judaic Heritage After the Holocaust

• The Crisis of Zionism
• Why Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu don’t get along

• Jewish Humor:  Why We Laugh
• Biblical Women:  Scripture’s Revolutionary Counter-Narrative

• Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Blessing to One Another:  Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People

• Five Steps to Emotional Wellness: A Jewish Approach

• American Identity and Citizenshi
• Making the Lower East Side Iconic: The LES Tenement Museum and the Story of American Immigration

• The Meaning of the Arab Spring to the Jewish World
• Jewish Communities Around the World:  An Update

• Jews and the Civil War
• Jewish soldiers during the civil war

• Elijah: Miracle Worker and the Prophet Who Never Died

• Uses and Abuses of  the Holocaust in Contemporary Politics
• Controversies Memorializing the Holocaust

• Lady at the OK Corral:  Lessons from the American Frontier
• Sala’s Gift: Is History a Gift or a Curse

• Outwitting History: The Last Minute Rescue of a Million Yiddish Books
• No Middle Road: The Persistent Challenge of Isaac Bashevis Singer

• France and Jews: A Vexed Relationship
• Jews Real and Imagined: Reflections on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism

• Reliving the Blacklist Through Jewish Eyes

• Dreyfus and Beyond

• Laughter: RX for Jewish Survival
• More Jewish Humor

• The Many Voices of Israel
• Joseph:  More Than An Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

• Untangling the We: Why the Middle East is a Mess and Always Has Been
• Israel, Palestine, Iran and the United States:  Between Pasts and Futures

• Israel

• Jewish Pluralism:  Contemporary Contemplations on Rabbinical Radicalism

• Jewish and Secular Perspectives on Physician Assisted Dying

• Kol Nidre: From the Synagogue to the Concert Stage
• Book SigningThe Late Starters Orchestra
• Jews in the News: How the press covers Israel and the Jewish community

• From the Tea Party to J Street, How American Jews are Reinventing their Political Identity
• Book Signing
• In this Time and in this Place, American Jewry 3.0
• The Quest for Power: A Study in Jewish Political Behavior and Practice.
• The American Jewish Revolution is Underway!  What is Happening to Jewish Institutional Life in the United States, and Why?

• Taverns,   Vodka, and Everyday Life in the Shtetl
• Book Signing: The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life Princeton
• Rediscovering Jewish Music: S. Ansky and his expedition to the Pale of Jewish Settlement in Russia, lecture and concert 

• Hezbollah and Iran’s Strategic Partnership and What it Means for the Middle East and Beyond
• Book signing: Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God Hezbollah’s Global Footprint: From Africa to North America and Points In Between

• Gender Equality in Israel: A Status Report
• We were Slaves: Combating Modern Day Slavery

• What Does It Mean To ‘Be Jewish’ in America Today?
• The Polarization of American Religion

• Living Jewishness As Secular Culture: The 19th Century Legacy of Ahad Haam
• The Multiple Becomings of Jewishness in The Twenty First Century

• Why Jewish Genealogy?
• Pope Francis, the Jews and Israel

• You Are What You Ess: A Social History of Jewish Food
• The Rise and Fall of the Bagel

• Strong Women in the Bible and Their Place in Modern Religious Life
• When Does Life Begin and End? An Examination of Current Issues of Bio Ethics

• An overview of Israeli society and politics
• Jerusalem and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

• The new government in Israel - good/bad news for religious freedom? (Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?)
• "Who is a Jew": Israel's unfinished saga of religion, law and politics

• The sorry state of American politics, how we got into our tribal mess
• Coping with dysfunction: what we can do to get out of the mess

• The Jews of Tin Pan Alley  - the Jewish contribution to American popular music from the 1890’s to the 1930’s.
• We Jews on Broadway - the Jewish role in the history of the Broadway Musical, from the 1890s to the present.

• Women are from Genesis, Men are from Leviticus!” Do Women and Men Read the Bible Differently? 
• The Power of Prayer: Halleluyah!

• Confessions of a Jewish journalist: covering one's community from the inside
• What's so funny about Jewish humor? (original material and classic Jewish jokes, told and analyzed)

• One Student’s Story of Being Arrested at Ohio University When Standing Up for Israel

• The Arab Lobby
• The Truth About Israel and the American College Campuses

• Rabbi Michael Melchior in Conversation: Q and A session as a follow up to Rabbi Melchior’s Hall of Philosophy Lecture

• From the back of the bus to the top of the agenda
• When chicken soup won't do the trick

• . Rethinking Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
• . Saving Jews during the Holocaust

• Chutzpah to Chidush: A Century of Yiddish-Influenced English in America
• Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism

• Are Jews Becoming Republicans: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Jewish Vote

• Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk
• Freedom Illuminated: Understanding The Szyk Haggadah

• What Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Teaches Us About Lincoln’s Religious Worldview – and Our Own
• Applied Jewish Wisdom: Jewish Values in Charitable Giving

• Eve Exposed
• Are We Bound by the Binding of Isaac

•  Choices Ahead: Defining the Future of Israel and its relationship with the American Jewish community
• What Can be Done to Save the Two-    State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

• The New Jewish Community

• The Chaotic Middle East: Impact on Israel's National Security
• Israel, the U.S., and the New Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities

• 2016 March of the Living (Auschwitz to Birkenau) :Personal Reflections

• American Intervention in the Middle East: What Have We Learned?
• Slouching Toward Bethlehem:  What Future for the Middle East

• If Only Stones Could Speak: Gentrification, Israeli Style

• Great Voices, Civil Liberty and American Jewry
• He was one of us:  The Judaization of Abraham Lincoln

• Ending the Criminalization of Mental Illness
• The Judge as Change Agent: Developing an Effective Local Community Criminal Justice/mental Health System

• My Big Amazing Jewish Year:  One Deep Dive into Every Single Holiday in the Jewish Calendar
• What 62 Jewish Celebrities Taught Me I Was Missing

Dr. Bernard Avishai

Dr. Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi

• The Two State Solution:  Isn’t It Dead
• Portnoy’s Complaint:  Who’s The Joke Really On?
• Why Jerusalem?

• Louis D.  Brandeis – American Prophet
• The Jewish Supremes

• Grit and Grace:  Jewish Wisdom for the Journey of Growing Older
• In the Image of God:  Making Sense of Dementia

• America’s Role in the Turbulent Middle East
• A Security System for the Two State Solution

• Just Call Me Golda
• When Israel Almost Lost A War

• If Only Stones Could Speak: Gentrification, Israeli Style

• Supreme Court, Religion and the Jews: The 2017 Term - Part 1: Introduction to the First Amendment's Religion clauses and a brief overview of the current Court. Masterpiece Cakeshop -- why baking a cake becomes the religious freedom case of the year
• Supreme Court, Religion and the Jews: The 2017 Term - Part 2: The other religion cases: The Muslim ban and abortion clinics. Looking ahead to the next few terms

• Being Jewish in Trump's America
• Beyond the Shtetlesphere: Jewish journalism today

• Illuminating Judaism—The graphic works of David Moss
• Embodying Tradition—Moving beyond graphics into 3-D art and beyond.

• The Fight to Save the Federal Judiciary
• Activism in the Trump Era

• Why White Supremacists chanted "Jews Will Not Replace Us" -- understanding the role of antisemitism among neo-Nazis in the age of Trump.
• The toxic impact of the Israel/Palestine conflict on academic freedom and free speech on campus.

• The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America
• The History of the Amusement Park: 900 Years of Spills & Thrills

• Why Didn’t You Tell Me?: Women (and Men) Friends in Conversation
• Conversations on the Small Screen: How Communicating over Social Media is Changing and Challenging Relationships

• Improving Mental Health:  Four Secrets in Plain Sight
• The Addiction Solution:  Treating Our Dependence on Opiods and Other Drugs

•  “The Beginning of the Reckoning:” Democracies Confront Fascism, 1933-1941.
• “Making Democracy Safe for the World:” The Revival of Democracy, 1941-1955.

• Bedlam: Mental Illness - the National Health Crisis — (Part 1) Living in the Emergency Room.
• Bedlam: Mental Illness - the National Health Crisis - (Part 2) Crises in the LA Jail.

• The Growing Threat to Pro-Israel Centrism  Part 1: Look Right - The implications of ever-tightening bonds between Netanyahu, Trump, and ethno-nationalists globally.
  The Growing Threat to Pro-Israel Centrism
• The Growing Threat to Pro-Israel Centrism Part 2: Look Left - The implications of growing progressive criticism of Israel and its policies and the end of unquestioning bipartisan support for Israel.

• Stand Your Ground. Share Your Space?
• Universalism and Particularism in 21st-Century Religious Life.

• Prophetic Power & Politics: How the Jewish Community Can Create a More Just World.
• The Ancient and Timeless Legend of the Exodus: Lessons for our own Lives.

• The Long Road from Jesus to Judaism: Facing Doubt, Arriving at Love.
• Who Are You? The Thorny Question of Identity.

• Wise Aging: Acquiring a Heart of Wisdom.
• From Equality to Transformation: How Jewish Feminism Changed the World.

• North Korea: America’s Eternal Adversary?
• The United States and a Rising China: How Should America and the World Respond?

• The Jewish Commitment to Social Justice.
• History as a Nation of Immigrants.

• Violent White Supremacy in Court:  The Charlottesville Verdict
• Normalization of Extremism:  Charlottesville to January 6, Buffalo and Beyond

• ISTEAM and How Israel Prepares Students for the New World of Work
• Building a Shared Society in Israel Through Education

• Jewish Lawyers and the Civil Rights Movement:  How Jewish Lawyers Helped Shape Civil Rights Law and Policy in the 20th Century
• For Such a Time as This:  Jewish Social Justice at a Time of Crisis and Opportunity

• Ethiopian Jews:  An Overview or “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Ethiopian Jews”
• Ethiopian Jews in Israel Today:  How Are They Doing?

• The Global Political Pandemic: Prisoners as a Looking Glass
• Antisemitism: Assault on Human Rights and our Common Humanity

• Understanding Modern Antisemitism
• How Disinformation Fuels Hate and Extremism

• Is the Two State Solution Dead?
• Balancing Values and Interests in Foreign Policy:  A Canadian Perspective

• Mental Health, Civic Health, and the Lies and Propaganda which threaten theme both

• Truth, Non-Truths, and Lies: The Story of Nazi Looted Art
• Systematic and Industrial Nazi Looting:  Why and How Public and Private Entities and Their Agents Engaged in Wholesale Robbery

• The Kosher Capones
• Breaking the Frame: The Jewish Gangster’s Perpetual Invisibility

• The Yiddish Theater; Past Present and Future
• Yiddish Songs of Spiritual Resistance

• Hidden Valley Road: A Story of Family, Trauma, and Hope
• The Mental Health Revolving Door — and How to Stop It

• The New Face(s) of American Life
• Me and Jewish Supremacy

• If we organize, we can change the world! (and we need to!)
• The Precious Legacy of Jewish Social Justice: a personal story

• Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
• Fort Ontario and the Birth of American Refugee Policy

• Why We Need A National Action Plan To Combat Antisemitism
• "All Jews Are Responsible for One Another": Global Advocacy for a Global People

• Manuscripts Do Burn: The YIVO Institute and the Recovery of Jewish Culture of Eastern Europe and Russia
• The Power of Archives and the Rebirth of Jewish Identity

• U.S. Education is Failing. Can the Jewish Intellectual Tradition Provide a Useful Model?
• Jewish Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Practical, Legal and Theological

• US Jews of Color, the Responsibility of the Counters, and Why it Matters

• I am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help! Understanding the Cause of the Problem and How we can Help
• Learn L.E.A.P. to Help Persons with Mental Illness Accept Treatment

• How We Got Here: The Roadmap to America’s Division
• Where We Are Going: The Roadmap Ah

• The 2024 Election: Reflections on the Jewish Vote
• What October 7th Means for Israel and Jew

• Jewish Students and America’s Melting Pot
• Americans and the Holocaust

• Remaining Openhearted In Anguished Times: A Community Conversation

• The Marriage Deficit
• Did Trump Kill Conservatism

• The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall
• Surprise in war: from Ukraine to Gaza

• Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel
• Zionist Dogs: Building the Canine Infrastructure in pre-state Israel

• Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir in Four Hands
• 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World

• The Best Minds

• Conversation with Steven Leifman

• Coping With Tyranny: Where Do We Go From Here?

• Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews Antisemitism in K-12 Education: What it is? What to do about it?

• Alan Sherman: Understanding the Cultural Shifts Affecting Jews in 1960 America

• The End of American Exceptionalism on Antisemitism: The Structural Shifts Behind the Resurgence of Anti-Jewish Prejudice
  Einstein and the Rabbi: The Untold Story of the Physicist's 20-Year Friendship with Rabbi Chaim Tchernowitz, and Their Conversations About the Talmud, Zionism, and God

• Beyond the Blue Zones: What the Revolutionary Science of Human Life Extension Means for You
• AI from Mount Sinai? Might AI help foster a new global consciousness?
  

• We Are Not Fighting Discrimination. We Are Fighting Elimination

• The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
• France and the Jews: History of a Love/Hate Relationship

• America’s Jewish Women
• Antisemitism, an American Tradition

• Antisemitism as a Political Tool: Protecting Democracy and Dividing our Community

• Free Speech and Anti-Semitism

• The Alliance: John Lewis and Black-Jewish Relations, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Halls of Congress

• Understanding the New Syria
• Gulf States and the New Syria

• Nationalism and the Future of Liberal Democracy: Finding a Jewish Theology of Democracy

• The Sevenfold Path: A Traveler's Guide to Jewish Wisdom and a Spiritual Practice