"Legacy" - April 2010 



אנחנו המורשת של אבותינו
We are the legacy of our forefathers.


"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."

- John Adams

"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one quarter of one percent of the human race.  It suggests a nebulous puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.  Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of.  He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine and abstruse learning are also very out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.  He has made a marvelous fight in this world in all ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself and be excused for it.  The Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greeks and Romans followed and made a vast noise, and they were gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, and have vanished. The Jew saw them all, survived them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmaties, of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert but aggressive mind.  All things are mortal but the Jews; all other forces pass, but he remains.  What is the secret of his immortality?"

- Mark Twain

Schedule of Events

  • Monday, April 12, 8 pm @ Sunwatcher Plaza - Yom Ha'Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Ceremony & Candelight Vigil. Join us as we mourn the deaths and honor the memories of the victims of the Shoah. Sponsored by the Philosophy Program with assistance from House of Jacob Reformed Synagogue. 
  • Tuesday, April 13, 2-4 pm @ Wichita I & II / Clark Student Center - Judaism 101: History & Culture. Nathan Jun, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will provide an overview of Jewish history and culture with open Q&A to follow. Sponsored by the Office of Student Development and Orientation and the Philosophy Program.
  • Wednesday, April 14, 7-9 pm @ Wichita I & II  / Clark Student Center - Judaism 102: Rituals and Traditios. Danny Kislin, Spiritual Leader of House of Jacob Reformed Synagogue, will provide an overview of Jewish religious practices and traditions with open Q&A to follow. Sponsored by the Office of Student Development and Orientation and the Philosophy Program.
  • Monday, April 19, 7 pm @ Shawnee Theater / Clark Student Center - Showing of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," a film about an unlikely friendship that develops between a 7 year-old German boy and a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz. Free and open to the public.  Sponsored by the University Programming Board  
  • Thursday, April 29, 7 pm @ House of Jacob Reformed Synagogue, 3414 Kemp Boulevard, Wichita Falls - Talk by Holocaust survivor Max Glauben. Transportation by van available from Sunwatcher Plaza at 6 pm, returning at 9 pm. For more information, please contact House of Jacob at (940) 692-5476 or Dominique Calhoun at (940) 397-4948.

PRESS

 


Celebrate Jewish Heritage!

Special Thanks

Dominique Calhoun, Matthew Park, and the Office of Student Development; the University Programming Board; Marilyn Rumsey, Danny Kislin, and the entire congregation of House of Jacob Reformed Synagogue; Mr. Max Glauben; Dr. Beverly Stiles; Dr. Russell Long; Dr. Patti Hamilton, Michelle Montgomery, Ryan McKelvy, Michelle Niebur, Rev. Troy Sims, and everyone else who offered their time and talents to make our inaugural celebration of Jewish Heritage Month a success.  

For more information on any aspect of Jewish Heritage Month, please contact Nathan Jun,  Assistant Professor of Philosophy, at (940) 397-4128, or via e-mail at nathan.jun (at) mwsu.edu.