Programs & Events

Past

Opening Tales, Myths, and Nightmares Exhibit Opening \| Lecture Sunday, December 9, 2012 - 3:00 pm Guests met artist and scholar Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern as... More >	Cooking Chef Laura’s Hanukkah Cooking Class Potato Prowess Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 6:30 pm Guests learned the secrets to perfect potato latkes with Chef Laura Frankel... More >
Author Event \| Booksigning Spertus In the Suburbs Author Mary Glickman Discusses One More River Monday, December 3, 2012 - 7:00 pm Guests joined Spertus in Highland Park to meet Mary Glickman, author this... More >	Author Event Spertus In the Suburbs Author Mary Glickman Discusses One More River Sunday, December 2, 2012 - 2:30 pm Guests joined Spertus in Lombard to meet Mary Glickman, author this year's... More >
Author Event Author Mary Glickman Discusses One More River Sunday, December 2, 2012 - 9:30 am Guests joined Spertus at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago to meet Mary... More >	Lecture \| Discussion Book Discussion of "One More River" One Book \| One Community 2012 Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 6:30 pm Join us at Spertus for a discussion of this year's One Book \| One Community... More >
Author Event \| Booksigning Synagogues of Mexico (Sinagogas de México) Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Visitors learned about the significant Jewish population in... More >	Special Event Jane Eisner on "Where are the Women in Jewish Professional Life?" Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 5:30 pm Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward, spearheaded an important... More >
Film \| Discussion Shalom Y'all Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 7:00 pm Guests saw the Brian Bain's documentary about Jewish life in the American... More >	Author Event \| Booksigning Not in the Heavens The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought Sunday, November 4, 2012 - 2:00 pm Over the last three centuries, thinkers from Spinoza to Einstein have... More >
Film \| Discussion Incessant Visions Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 6:30 pm In March 1933, German Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn, head of Germany’s... More >	Exhibit Opening Day Celebration of Shalom Chicago, an exhibit at the Chicago History Museum about the city's Jewish community Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Presented in collaboration with Spertus, Shalom Chicago was an exhibit at... More >
Workshop Grantwriting Certificate Workshop Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Unlock ways to help your organization secure funds by learning to write... More >	Author Event \| Booksigning The Poetry of Kabbalah Sunday, October 14, 2012 - 2:00 pm Acclaimed writer Peter Cole joined professor Rachel Shteir for a reading and... More >
Online Course A Biblical Approach to Mental Health Online Course Tuesday, September 18, 2012 (All day) This integrative, 12-week, online, continuing education course was offered... More >	Course Advanced Biblical Hebrew Fall Session with Dr. Bernard Grossfeld Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Study with Biblical language expert Dr. Bernard... More >
Cooking Shofar, So Good Cook Up a Sweet New Year Monday, September 10, 2012 - 6:30 pm Chef Laura Frankel guided guests through a smorgasbord of locally grown... More >	Film \| Discussion Yippee! A Journey to Jewish Joy Sunday, September 9, 2012 - 2:00 pm This joyful film chronicles award-winning director Paul Mazursky’s whirlwind... More >
Commencement Commencement 2012 Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 4:00 pm Congratulations to the 2012 graduates of Spertus' Master of Arts in Jewish... More >	Film \| Discussion Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 6:30 pm Attendees to a sold out crowd saw the highly acclaimed restoration of ... More >