Programs & Events

Past

Seminar Distance Learning Seminar Summer 2012 Session II Sunday, July 22, 2012 (All day) - Thursday, July 26, 2012 (All day) On-Site Seminar for Jewish Studies Doctoral (DJS and DSJS) Students. More >	Seminar Distance Learning Seminar Summer 2012 Session I Sunday, July 15, 2012 (All day) - Thursday, July 19, 2012 (All day) On-Site Seminar for Jewish Studies Masters and DSJS Students. More >
Mini-course Spertus In the Suburbs Jewish Arts and Culture Today Monday, July 9, 2012 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm In this fascinating mini-course, Douglas Rosenberg shared his insider... More >	Film \| Discussion Chicago Film Premiere of TORN, Directed by Ronit Kertsner Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 2:00 pm A Catholic priest has his identity turned inside out when he learns his... More >
Tour Architecture Tour Behind the Faceted Front Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 12:30 pm This behind-the-scenes tour shared the unique, award-winning architecture of... More >	Special Event Spertus In the Suburbs Greater Chicago Jewish Festival Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 11:00 am - 6:00 pm [VIDEO] Festival-goers joined Spertus on... More >
Exhibit Uncovered & Rediscovered: Stories of Jewish Chicago A Jewish Homeland Sunday, June 3, 2012 (All day) - Thursday, September 20, 2012 (All day) This chapter documents the efforts of Chicagoans to secure a homeland for... More >	Open House An Evening of Networking, Conversation, and Learning Presented by Spertus and Jewish B2B Networking Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 6:00 pm Business leaders and professionals from around Chicago gathered for this... More >
Author Event \| Booksigning The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 2:00 pm [AUDIO] Guests heard historian Dr. Daniel Greene speak... More >	Author Event Etgar Keret A Conversation and Reading Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 6:00 pm [VIDEO] Guests heard Israeli writer Etgar Keret, a singular... More >
Performance Music and Memory Piano Sonatas of Viktor Ullmann Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 7:00 pm [AUDIO] In commemoration of Yom HaShoah (... More >	Special Event Young Nonprofit Professional Network’s Celebration 2012 Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 6:00 pm On Thursday April 19th, Chicago’s Young Nonprofit Professionals got... More >
Cooking Delectable Passover Cook Up Something New! Monday, March 19, 2012 - 6:30 pm Guests joined Chef Laura Frankel for a pre-Passover cooking demonstration... More >	Performance Intertwined Identities Music of Northern Morocco's Jews Sunday, March 18, 2012 - 2:00 pm [AUDIO] Guests joined Moroccan music expert Vanessa Paloma... More >
Seminar Distance Learning Seminar Sunday, March 18, 2012 (All day) - Thursday, March 22, 2012 (All day) March On-Site Seminar for Distance Learning Students More >	Film \| Discussion Women Unchained Chicago Premiere Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 2:00 pm Spertus was pleased to present the Chicago premiere of Women Unchained, an... More >
Lecture Spertus In the Suburbs Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture Trends in the Global Church and Why Jews Should Care Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm [VIDEO] Visitors joined us for the 17th Joseph Cardinal... More >	Conference The State of American Jewish Belief Revisited At the Edge of a Crisis or at a New Threshold? Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm [AUDIO] The University of Chicago Center for Jewish... More >
Exhibit Hassidic Courts Photographs from Israel by Gil Cohen-Magen Sunday, March 4, 2012 (All day) - Sunday, July 8, 2012 (All day) Israeli photographer Gil Cohen-Magen shares work from a decade-long project... More >	Author Event \| Booksigning Author Shalom Auslander & Moment Magazine's Memoir Awards Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 2:00 pm [AUDIO] Spertus was very... More >