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10/16/06
JEWISH EXPERIENCE AT SLU TOPIC FOR LECTURE
CANTON - A former St. Lawrence University professor and an alumna are the co-presenters
of the 2006 Rabbi Seymour Siegel Memorial Lecture, on the topic "A Menorah in the
Wilderness: The Jewish Experience at St. Lawrence." The event will be on Monday,
October 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall; it is open to
the public, free of charge.
Presenters are Lawrence W. Baron, a former history professor at St. Lawrence who
is now director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies and the Nasatir Chair
in modern Jewish history at San Diego State University, and Rabbi Susan Talve, a
1975 graduate of St. Lawrence who is the founding rabbi of the Central Reform
Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri. The event is a continuation of the celebration
of St. Lawrence's Sesquicentennial in 2005-2006, exploring various aspects of its
heritage.
Baron, who was on the St. Lawrence faculty from 1975 to 1988, also gave the 2005 Siegel
Lecture. His most recent book is Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing
Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema. He is the founder and president of the Western
Jewish Studies Association.
The Central Reform Congregation which Talve founded and leads is the only Jewish
congregation in the city of St. Louis. Active in a range of social justice programs
and organizations in the community, Talve was ordained by Hebrew Union College in
Cincinnati, where she earned a master's degree in Hebrew letters; her St. Lawrence
degree is in religious studies. Among her many awards and honors are the Hebrew Union
College's Stephen Levinson Award for Community Service; the Jewish Federation of St.
Louis's Woman of Valor Award; the Institute of Peace and Justice's Trumpet of Justice
Award; and the NCCJ's Brotherhood and Sisterhood Award and Woman of Achievement Award.
Rabbi Siegel was a noted Conservative Jewish author and scholar. His family donated
his papers to St. Lawrence University's Owen D. Young Library and created an
endowment for an annual lecture on campus in his memory.
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More information: Spiritual and Religious Life at St. Lawrence
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