Scholar in Residence: A Journalist Exploring the Jewish World

With Professor Jonathan Kaufman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Director of the Northeastern University School of Journalism

The TBS Adult Learning Committee is excited to present an entertaining and educational weekend with Professor Jonathan Kaufman.

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Friday, April 25 - 6:15pm Evening Shabbat Service & Introductory Lecture
Why Write about Jews?

Open to all, no registration required

Pulitzer Prize winner and author Jonathan Kaufman takes us behind the scenes to talk about how he finds his stories, why he writes about them, and what they tell us.

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Saturday, April 26
8:30am Saturday Morning Minyan (no registration required)
9:00-10:30am Lecture: Diaspora in Exile
What are the stories the media should be telling about Jews in the Diaspora?

Bagel breakfast will be served. Free for members, $10/non-member.

Saturday, April 26

6:30pm Chinese food dinner $25/member, $35/non-member

7:30pm Lecture: The Rival Jewish Dynasties that Shaped China

In his book, The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how two families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps.

Sunday, April 27

9:30-11:00am Lecture: Building Coalitions

Drawing on decades of research, interviews and studies of figures from Jesse Jackson to Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Barack Obama, Jonathan Kaufman looks at the roots of the Black-Jewish alliance, how it has changed, and the steps forward.

Bagel breakfast will be served. Free for members, $10/non-member.

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