Radio host Michael Medved (The 10 Big Lies About America) says contempt for free enterprise is fueled by five big lies about American business. Among those lies: that pursuit of profit damages the public interest and undermines values. With his trademark slashing wit, he joins neoconservative trailblazer Norman Podhoretz (World War IV) to discuss what's wrong with Jewish liberalism and why we should feel grateful for our corporate system.

Presented in partnership with the Koret Foundation and Taube Philanthropies.

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The New Yorker staff writer Atul Gawande is the author of Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance and Complications, a humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. A MacArthur Fellow, a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and an assistant professor at Harvard, Gawande's latest work finds a remedy for grievous medical errors in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospi­tal infection.

With Richard Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute?

More than five job hunters for every opening. Thirteen million Americans looking for work. Do you need help tipping the odds in your favor? Richard Bolles can help. Learn 18 different ways to look for work. Know what to do when posting a résumé online fails to land you an interview. Arm yourself with the single most crucial question you can ask when angling for a job offer.

The JCCSF offers a range of free programs to assist job hunters and career changers. Find out more at www.jccsf.org/careerdev

Jane Bryant Quinn is one of the nation's leading personal finance commentators. An award-winning columnist for Newsweek and Bloomberg, and the author of the wildly bestselling Making the Most of Your Money and Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People, she's cornered the market on simple but essential advice for people of any age to plan for their financial future. Among her new topics is tips for Boomers on making retirement income last.

In conversation with KGO's John Rothmann

The final volume of USC Professor and former State Historian Kevin Starr's spirited, comprehensive magnum opus on California is cause for celebration. Covering demography, water, freeways, politics, culture, major cities and race relations, the new book offers sketches of many of California's often larger-than-life individuals: Buffy Chandler, Cardinal McIntyre, Pat Brown, Dave Brubeck, Clark Kerr, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Herb Caen.

"With the publication of Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963, Kevin Starr...has completed his transformation from the state's greatest historian to its indispensable one.....a magnificent gift to the people of his native state." - Los Angeles Times

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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.