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Thu, Dec 1, 7 PM
Oren Jacoby
“The Passion of
Sister Rose”
Screening of Jacoby’s award-winning documentary about Sister Rose Thering, a nun who has made the battle against anti-Semitism her life’s work. Discussion with the filmmaker.

Tue, Dec 6, 7 PM
Anna Pavord
The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants
The author of the worldwide bestseller, The Tulip, takes us on a thrilling adventure into botanical history, from Athens in third century BC to Padua in the 15th century; and involving the cultured scholars of Islam, the first expeditions to the Indies and the first settlers in the New World.

Thu, Dec 8, 7 PM
Michael Connelly and Leslie S. Klinger
“Clues and Deductions: Sherlock Holmes
and Harry Bosch in
the Post 9/11 World”
Connelly, best-selling author of crime thrillers and Klinger, the world’s foremost authority on Sherlock Holmes, discuss the enduring appeal of the detective novel.
Presented by The Council of the Library Foundation and sponsored by City National Bank and KPMG LLP.

Tue, Dec 13, 7 PM
Alan Ball and
Thomas Lynch
“Once You Put a
Dead Guy in the Room You Can Talk about Anything”
Ball, creator of the HBO series “Six Feet Under,” and Lynch—poet, essayist and Michigan funeral director—discuss life, death, and letting go.

WED, DEC 14, 7pm
ZÓCALO
“An Evening with
Culture Clash:
Confused and Still
Full of Rage”
The infamous Chicano performance trio joins us to discuss their two upcoming world premiers, Hollywood’s relationship with Latinos, and the ever widening gap between art and politics.
THU, DEC 1, 7 PM
Oren Jacoby
Oren Jacoby, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, has written, directed, and produced award-winning films for the BBC, ABC, VH-1, HBO, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, Turner, NHK (Japan), and Human Rights Watch. In addition to working on Emmy and Dupont Gold Baton winning series, he has won CINE Golden Eagles, the American Film Institute Independent Filmmakers award, and the Royal Television Society (UK) journalism award, as well as production grants from ITVS (The Independent Television Service) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Most recently, he directed "Sister Rose's Passion," nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 and winner of Best Documentary Short Film at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, as well as dramatic segments starring Brian Dennehy and Sam Waterston for "Decisions that Shook the World".

Jacoby's credits as director, producer and writer include: "Topdog Diaries" (PBS), featuring Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Wright and Suzan-Lori Parks; "The Shakespeare Sessions" (PBS), with John Barton and Sir Peter Hall, co-founders of the Royal Shakespeare Company and an all-star cast of American actors; "The Beatles Revolution" (ABC, VH-1, Apple,); "Swingin' with Duke"(PBS), starring Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra; "Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself" (PBS); "The Power of an Idea" (Human Rights Watch); "Master Thief" (ABC); and "The Irish in America: Success" (PBS). He also wrote, produced and directed "The Return Ticket"; "Ghosts of the Bayou"; "Idols of the Game", featuring Michael Jordan; "Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing" for American Masters; and "The Second Russian Revolution," on the collapse of the USSR, called "the best BBC series of the decade."

Sister Rose's Passion

"Sister Rose's Passion" is a very small movie on a very big subject. The 38-minute documentary explores the story of Sister Rose Thering, a Dominican nun who has devoted her life to battling anti-Semitism within the Catholic Church. In addition to teaching and lecturing for over fifty years, her writings contributed to the drafting of "Nostra Aetate," the revolutionary document that changed the Church's position on Jews from negative to positive.

The film opens inside a grand, hushed church. Over this peaceful image is Sister Rose's voice laying out some of the most common and venomous Catholic misconceptions about the Jews, most notably that they killed Jesus. "It will be hard for you to hear these things as it will be hard for me to say them," she tells us.

Released the same year as Mel Gibson's mega-blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ," this quiet movie follows sister Rose on a trip to her hometown of Plain, Wisconsin, to the Abbey where she took her orders, to middle schools where she lectures on the holocaust, and into intimate scenes in her home. Along the way the filmmakers craft a portrait of a woman from humble beginnings who, through her intelligence and persistence, managed to make fundamental changes in one of the biggest, oldest and most traditional institutions in the world. (from website of The Center for Interreligious Understanding.)

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