Award-winning novelist and MacArthur "genius" Rebecca Goldstein (The Mind-Body Problem, Mazel, Betraying Spinoza) is a writer whose work wrestles with affairs of the mind, heart, and soul. A philosopher by training, Goldstein helps us understand the almost erotic power that ideas can impart. Her latest book, Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God, dives into the great debate between faith and reason, and gives us "a hilarious novel about people's existential agonies and the intellectual mysteries that obsess them." (Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated).

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With Rabbis David Weiss-Halivni and Michael Berenbaum

Rabbi David Weiss-Halivni is a survivor of Auschwitz and one of the greatest Talmudic scholars of the past century.  He contends that the unprecedented horrors of the Shoah defy explication; rather the cause of suffering was "cosmic," as in God's actual, ontological withdrawal from human history.  Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, leading scholar of the Holocaust, joins Weiss-Halivni for a conversation about Jewish theology after Auschwitz, the memorialization of the Shoah, and why remembering is an "act of defiance."

Presented in partnership with the Holocaust Center of Northern California.  The Alfred Manovill Memorial Lecture is made possible through the generosity of the Ingrid Tauber Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.

Join us for a special study session with Jerusalem-based educator, Torah scholar, and philosopher Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg (The Murmuring Deep, The Beginning of Desire, The Particulars of Rapture). Her lectures, like her books, are a sophisticated mix of traditional Jewish exegesis, Hasidic texts, Western philosophy, and poetry and appeal to students of all backgrounds and denominations. A not to be missed opportunity to study with a master.