Leon Cebon Memorial Lectures
| In 2003 Leon Cebon, in his capacity as a member of the Board of Management of the Congregation, approached our Rabbi and the Board of Management about arranging lectures for the Congregation and for the community at large. There were 6 Lectures that year. In 2004 the first Lecture took place just prior to Leon's sudden passing. After Leon's passing, the Board of Management decided to continue holding the lectures and to name them the Leon Cebon Memorial Lectures in Leon's memory.
These lectures cover a wide range of subjects ranging from Jewish History, Kabbala and studies in Tanach, all areas of Leon's broad Jewish knowledge. The 2010 lecture series was planned by Ann Cebon, Rabbi Stephen Boroda, and Dr Deborah Golvan with suggestions from Dr Miriam Munz. |
KHC LIBRARY PRESENTS: LEON CEBON MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES 2010
Relating Judaism and Halachah to Science and Medicine
- On The Genetics of Being Jewish
- B’reishit vs. The Big Bang: Must Science and Religion be in Conflict?
- "The Best of the Doctors Goes to Hell" - The Ramifications of this Mishnah today
- The Environment: What can we do?
All lectures are held on Sunday nights at 8.00pm at Kew Hebrew Congregation in the Norman Smorgon Hall.
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PAST LECTURES:
DATE: Monday 17th August 2009, 2:00 pm
SPEAKER: DR RODNEY GOUTTMAN
TOPIC: ZIONISM - An Embattled Landscape
When first promoted, political Zionism attracted few supporters in the Jewish world. This situation began to change when it became clear that very few states were willing to provide refuge for most Jewish victims of Hilter’s Germany. Non-Jewish attitudes to Zionism have varied depending according to views of the Israel-Arab cum Palestinian conflict. This talk will explore these developments in the Australian context from the early 1900s to the present.
Rodney Gouttman has worked at the University of SA, as a political analyst at the B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission and is a past editor of the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies and Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society. Presently, he is a Research Associate in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. His current research concerns the Australian Jewish community's attitude to both World Wars I and II, and the ideological Left's view of anti-Semitism and Zionism from the 1920s to the present.
This lecture is available to be streamed from our website - please click here.
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DATE: Sunday 19th July 2009, 8:00 pm
SPEAKER: Rabbi James Kennard
TOPIC: The Charedim & Israeli Politics
Rabbi James Kennard is Principal of Mount Scopus Memorial College. He holds a master's degree in mathematics from Oxford University and was previously Head of London's King Solomon High School. He received Rabbinic ordination in Israel in 1989 and has served as a Hillel director/chaplain on campuses across England. Rabbi Kennard is a dynamic speaker who will address the topic of "Charedim and the Knesset; the history, philosophy and the politics of the different Charedi parties and their impact on Israel's past, present and future".
This lecture is available to be streamed from our website - please click here.
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DATE: Sunday 15 February 2009, 8.00pm
TOPIC: Yiddish Language and Culture
SPEAKER: Bobbi Zylberman and Michael Zylberman
From the pre WW2 years in Europe to 2009, Israel and the far flung Jewish Diaspora with the focus on Melbourne; what have been the important developments in Yiddish Language and Culture? Is the language, its literature and music and the ideology of the BUND still relevant today? What are the challenges for the future? Who better to lead us through this fascinating topic than Bobbi and Michael Zylberman. Bobbi is a Lecturer in Yiddish Language and Culture at the Australian Centre of Jewish Civilization at Monash University and serves on the International Association of Yiddish Clubs Advisory Board. Michael is the Chairperson of the BUND in Melbourne and convenor of the Jewish Broadcasting Group at Radio 3ZZZ 92.3FM.
"Mir Kumen On" Yiddish Choir rehearsals take place weekly on Tuesdays at 8pm at Waks House (281 Hawthorn Rd). The Choir is run by Tomi Kalinski under the auspices of the J. Waks Cultural Trust. The Choir meets weekly to learn new and old Yiddish songs and has begun performing at various events around Melbourne. Yiddish enthusiasts of all ages are welcome. Email KHC on office@khc.org.au if you are interested in joining the choir.
The details for the contact person for Din and Henry's information, in case they get any queries are: ring Reyzl on 0400960204 or e-mail bundyiddishchoir@gmail.com.
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DATE: Sunday 7th December 8.00pm
TOPIC: Jewish Day Schools in Melbourne: The Length and the Breadth of our Community.
SPEAKER: Miriam Muntz.
The Melbourne Jewish community is vibrant and multi-facted and this is exemplified by the amazing range of ideologies that underpin its Jewish Day Schools from Adass Israel through to Sholem Aleichem.
Miriam Munz, a Research Associate in Jewish Studies at the Australian Centre of Jewish Civilization at Monash University, will draw on her extensive knowledge of these schools, though working in and with them for many years, to provide us with an overview of the rich diversity of the community. She will look at how the schools came to be set up, their philosophies, and their challenges for the future. Miriam has served as Principal of Leibler Yavneh College and Head of Jewish Studies at Mount Scopus Memorial College; and she was the founding President of Bet Aharon, the Modern Orthodox Congregation based at the Gandel Besen campus of Mount Scopus Memorial College.
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