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Mr. Sandi DuBowski, Discussion following showing of the film Trembling Before G_d. Wednesday, November 6, 7:30 p.m., New Engineering Bldg, Room 100.

Mr. Dubowski is Director/Producer of Trembling Before G_d, an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma – how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality.

Michael Galchinsky, “Jews and Human Rights: The Limits of Cosmopolitanism.” Monday, October 14, 12:00 noon Dauer Hall, Room 219.

Professor Galchinsky is from the Department of English at Georgia State University.

Judith Page, Ph.D. “Reinventing Shylock: Romanticism and the Representation of Shakespeare’s Jews.” Thursday, October 10, 7:30p.m., Reitz Union, Room 282.

Dr. Page, from the English Department here at UF, received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught at Millsaps College before coming here in 2000. She has received a Skirball Fellowship at the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University for Spring 2003 where she will lecture and continue work on her upcoming book entitled Imperfect Sympathies: British Romanticism, Jews, and Judaism.

Joel Migdal, “What Went Right and What Went Wrong in the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process.”

Dr. Migdal is the Robert F. Phillip Professor of International Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Program at the University of Washington. He was the founding chair of the International Studies Program there, one of the first such programs in the country. He specializes in the field of comparative politics and the Middle East. His latest books are “Palestinians: The Making of a People” (The Free Press); “Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law, and Society” (U. of Washington Press); and “State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World” (Cambridge Univ.Press).

  • The Arthur & Violette Kahn Lecture