10th annual Gates of Chai Jewish Lecture set for Sunday, Nov. 4

Rabbi Irwin Kula will speak, along with Dr. Susannah Heschel

Fort Worth, TX

10/29/2007

A noted Dartmouth professor of Jewish Studies and a provocative religious leader will be speakers for a dynamic town hall discussion at 4 p.m. Sunday Nov. 4 in the ballroom of the Brown-Lupton Student Center at TCU. Prof. Susannah Heschel, with Rabbi Irwin Kula, are guests of honor for the 10th annual Gates of Chai Lectureship in Contemporary Judaism, sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies at TCU and Brite Divinity School.  Topic for the event is “Reversing the Gaze: Ideology, Identity and the Bible in the 21st Century.” Admission is free, and tickets are required since seating is limited. The number to call to order tickets is 817-257-5976.

Dr. Heschel is an expert on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries and has organized four recent international conferences for scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies. She has, for many years, served on an advisory committee for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

Rabbi Kula has inspired thousands nationwide, using Jewish wisdom in ways that speak to modern life. A regular guest on NBC-TV’s Today show, he is also co-host of a popular weekly radio show in Portland, OR and the author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life.

The Gates of Chai Lectureship is designed to promote informed, dynamic public dialogue and education on issues of relevance to contemporary Judaism. The lectureship is sponsored through the generosity of Gates of Chai, Inc., in memory of Larry Kornbleet and family members of Stanley and Marcia Kornbleet Kurtz who perished in the Holocaust.

Previous Gates of Chai speakers include Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel, legal/political activists Morris Dees and Susan Estrich, authors Thomas Cahill, Harold Kushner, Chaim Potok and Bruce Feiler and Ambassador Dennis Ross, former State Department specialist on Middle East policy.