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Ideas Cafe 2012 - 2013

Looking for an exciting, stimulating discussion of vital current issues in a relaxed setting?

Come to the Ideas Cafe at Congregation Beth Shalom for a meeting of the minds. Join us for this spirited intellectual give and take as we hear from some of the Jewish "big thinkers" on the Chicago scene! Guests are interviewed by either journalist Carl Schrag or Rabbi Carl Wolkin and there is time for questions after the interview.

Below is a list of our dates, guests, and topics for this year. Please click on the topic you would like to see, or print, the flyer for that evening. Click on the guest's name to see his/her biography.

November 1, 2012	Brad Sugar	"Strange Bedfellows? Public Schools and Jewish Education"
December 6, 2012	Rabbi Michael Balinsky	"Do Denominations Still Matter? The blurring of lines between streams of American Judaism"
January 10, 2013	Rabbi Adam Chalom	"Seperating fact from Legend: Implications of the New Jewish History"
February 7, 2013-Rescheduled for March 7	Gary Weinstein	"Birthright Israel: Can a free 10-day trip really change the course of Jewish History?"
March 7, 2013-Rescheduled for May 2	Rabbi Josh Feigelson	"Why Our Questions Matter More Than Our Answers"
April 4, 2013	Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann	"Re-Jew-Venation" Old Approaches to Practice, Belief and Community-building for a New Generation"

Times: 6:30-7:40 PM

Fee: $15.00 per session or $10.00 with a CBS University tuition card