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For more information,
please email the Council Executive:
ccjwa@aol.com
If you would like to
assist in organising CCJWA events, we would like to hear
from you.
Wednesday,
1 February
2011 Annual General
Meeting
Address: The
Reverend Ron Larkin,
Moderator, Uniting Church in WA
Topic:
Light Eternal - Jews and Judaism
A Statement by the Uniting Church in Australia
National Assembly 2010
Chairperson's Address
The Rev Charles Waddell,
Chair CCJWA Inc. The Rev Ron Larkin, Uniting Church in WA
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Tuesday, 15 May
(7.30 pm)
Screening of the film
The Quarrel - for CCJWA members and friends
(Canada, 1999, 85 minutes, directed by Eli Cohen)
Light refreshments
will be served. Come, watch the film, and then discuss it.
There will be no
entry charge, but to defray costs, a donation of $5 or more is
requested.
Please email for details
of venue:
ccjwa@aol.com
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The Quarrel
brings to the screen one of the most powerful works of modern
literature
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a haunting story by Yiddish writer Chaim Grade that was written
shortly after the Second World War. Two survivors of the
Holocaust, accidentally reunited in a park in Montreal in 1948,
take up their argument just where they left it nine years earlier;
one of the men is a pious Hasid who runs a yeshiva for Jewish
orphans, the other a secular writer who has long since lost his
religious faith. The war deprived them of everything,
including all the members of their families; yet, instead of
deadening their appetite for life, the losses they suffered and
the brutalities they witnessed have only reinforced the Orthodox
Jew's trust in God and the secular skeptic's trust in himself.
As they spend the day
together, the two men alternately cling together to recall their
common past, and lock horns in debate over their opposing views of God
and the world. For them and for the audience, the concentrated
drama of their encounter passes too quickly.
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— Ruth Wisse, Chair in
Yiddish Literature, Harvard University
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Thursday, 9
August (7.30 pm)
Seminar on Light
Eternal, a DVD and study guide developed to assist individuals
and congregations to discuss and understand the resolutions in "Jews
and Judaism: A Statement by the Uniting Church in Australia".
Presenters:
Rabbi Fred Morgan, Temple
Beth Israel, St Kilda, Victoria; and
Rev Dr Geoffrey Lilburne,
Director of Lay and Continuing Education, Perth Theological Hall
Venue:
Please email
ccjwa@aol.com for details.
Cost:
Members $5; non-members
$10
Light refreshments will be
served.
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Thursday, 8
November (4.30 pm)
Kristallnacht
Commemoration "Night of Broken Glass"
Guest Speaker:
The Honourable Kevin
Parker AC RFD QC, Former Supreme Court Judge,
Former Deputy President of
the International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague
Venue:
Margaret Field Hall,
St Mary's Anglican Girls' School,
Elliott Road, Karrinyup
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