Jews in the Final Frontier: lecture at Temple B'nai Brith on Thursday, December 11

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Jews in the Final Frontier
Guest lecturer: Joshua Breindel
Thursday December 11th, 7:30-9:00pm

From Vulcans to Batman, from robots to wizards, Jewish writers and actors have shaped every level of American fantasy and science fiction. Born into immigrant families, many Jews often had to hide their 'secret identity' behind bland public masks - a social reality that led to the birth of such famous superheroes as Superman, Spiderman and scores of others.

And that's only the beginning of the story..
Join us as we delve into the strange new worlds of F&SF texts and films as we explore their Jewish roots and continued influences in the present day!

Joshua Breindel, a fifth year rabbinical student at Hebrew College holds an MA in Jewish folklore. He is a talented storyteller and has been teaching Judaism and spirituality all around New England. This year he is acting as the spiritual leader of the Greater Jewish Community of Stowe, VT.

Thursday, December 11 7:30-9:00pm at Temple B'nai Brith, 201 Central Street, Somerville, MA 02145.

Recommended donation $8 - to register please visit our website at http://templebnaibrith.org/adulted.html

Comments

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

ok, ok, now I have actually paid attention to what I was doing, and formatted
the link as a link the old-school way, etc etc.

(I assume that the amount of formatting that appears as annoying HTML tags everywhere for your setup is fine when my editor is set to rich text but
I don't actually format any of the text, rather than cutting and pasting it from someone else's formatted text?)

[ron_newman]

re your parenthesized question - I think so, but I avoid the rich text editor so I'm not sure.

(somehow, this one ended up with more blank lines than the ones posted to arisia and bostonjews)