Fri. Oct. 29, 12-1:30 pm, Lecture Hall: “Towards a Just Peace: A Jewish Perspective on History, Identity and Solidarity,” a talk by Rabbi Marc Ellis. Marc Ellis is a Jewish theologian and philosopher. He is the Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, and author of a number of
books, including Israel and Palestine Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Century. Rabbi Ellis calls for a reinterpretation of the Holocaust in order to construct a shared Jewish-Palestinian project “for interdependent empowerment, for justice and ethics, for risk-taking to achieve what seems unachievable” through “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.” (Sponsored by the following progams: Visions and Voices, Imperialism, Nonfiction Media and Memory and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean.) Free and open to the public.