Lecture--Ancient Judaism

Topic: "Bar Kokhba: Rebel Hero or Failed Messiah?"
Monday, January 28, 2008 at 1:30 pm
The Tamarac Community Library
8701 W. Commercial Blvd., Tamarac, Florida
For more information, call (954) 720-2209
Note: The lecture is free and open to the public.

This is Eli's fourth and final lecture at the Tamarac Community Library on "Ancient Judaism: The Story Behind the History."

Lecture--Religious Zionism

Topic: "A Reckoning for Religious Zionism: The Future of a Lost Movement"
Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 10:30 am
The Levis Jewish Community Center
21050 95th Avenue S., Boca Raton, Florida
For more information, call (561) 558-2520
Note: Fee for the lecture is $5.00.

Lecture--Ancient Judaism

Topic: "The Rise and Fall of the Jews of Alexandria"
Monday, December 17, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Tamarac Community Library
8701 W. Commercial Blvd.
Tamarac, Florida
For more information, call: (954) 720-2209
Note: Lecture open to the public. Admission is free.

This is the third lecture in a four-part series at the Tamarac Community Library on "Ancient Judaism: The Story Behind the History."

Lecture

Topic: "The Irving Trial and the New Holocaust Deniers"
Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 10:30 am
The Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center
21050 95th Avenue S.
Boca Raton, Florida
For more information and to make a reservation, call: (561) 558-2520

Note: Admission to the lecture is $5.00

Lecture

Topic: "The Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 6:30 pm
South Regional/Broward Community College Library
7300 Pines Boulevard, Pembroke Pines, Florida
For more information, call: (954) 201-8849
Note: The lecture is free and open to the public.

Lecture Series--Ancient Judaism

Topic: "The Masada Complex: The Heroism and Folly of the Jewish War Against Rome"
Monday, November 19, 2007, 1:30 pm
Tamarac Community Library
8701 W. Commercial Blvd., Tamarac, Florida
For more information, call: (954) 720-2209
Note: The Program is free and open to the public. This is the second lecture of a four-part series at the Tamarac Community Library.

Lecture

Topic: "Life After Life: Jewish Views on the World After Death"
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 10:30 am
Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center
9801 Donna Klein Blvd., Boca Raton, Florida
For more information, call (561) 852-3200
Note: There is a $5.00 charge for admission

Lecture Series--Ancient Judaism

Topic: "The Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Monday, October 15, 2007, 1:30 pm
Tamarac Community Library, 8701 W. Commercial Blvd., Tamarac, Florida
For more information call: (954) 720-2209
Note: Program is free and open to the public. This lecture is the first of a four-part series at the Tamarac Community Library.

Lecture

Topic: "Hitler's Professors: The Third Reich's Intellectuals"
Thursday, October 11, 2007, 10:30 am
Adolph and Rose Levis JCC, 9801 Donna Klein Blvd., Boca Raton, Florida
For more information call: (561) 852-3200
Note: There is a $5.00 charge for admission

Hostel at Home, Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Lecture
La Quinta Inn, 3701 University Drive, Coral Springs, Florida
For more information, fees, and times, call (954) 429-9666
Topic: "Jewish Power in Medieval Spain"
Note: Lecture open only to those who have registered for the complete program

Recent published essays by Eli Kavon

"No to Assimilation, Yes to Acculturation," The Jerusalem Post, December 22, 2006

"Eichmann: The Man, His Crimes, and His Trial," Midstream March/April 2007

"Revelation and Revolution," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, May 21, 2007

"Tisha B'Av Meditation--Bar Kokhba: Rebel Hero or Failed Messiah?" Midstream July/August 2007

"Why the Ninth of Av Still Matters," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, July 24, 2007

"A Graveyard's Testimony: Tel Aviv's Old Cemetery," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, September 18, 2007

"Hanukkah: The Maccabees in the Zionist Imagination," Midstream, November/December 2007

"Chanukah: Hard Times Now, Hard Times Then," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, December 4, 2007

"Zionism Renews Tu Bishvat," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, January 22, 2008

"A Tisha B'Av Meditation: Jewish Power in the Shadow of the Holocaust," Midstream, July/August 2008.

"Tisha Be'av in the Shadow of Auschwitz," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, August 10, 2008.

"Both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, August 14, 2008.

"Religious Zionism: Future of a Lost Movement," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, August 31, 2008.

"Sergeant Cohen's War: A Memoir of Victory, Liberation, and Loss," Midstream, September/October 2008.

"The Medieval Roots of Islamic Extremism," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, September 11, 2008.

"Beyond the Israeli-Palestinian Problem," The Jerusalem Post Online Edition, September 23, 2008.

"Emancipation's Final Failure?" The Jerusalem Report, May 24, 2010.

"The Messianic Pretension," The Jerusalem Report, August 30, 2010.

A podcast is available for Eli's lecture on "Israel in the Age of Extremism," delivered on November 16, 2006 at the South Regional/Broward Community College Library located in Pembroke Pines, Florida

A podcast is available for Eli's lecture on "The Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls," delivered on November 20, 2007 at the South Regional/Broward Community College Library located in Pembroke Pines, Florida

Lecture and Service for Ninth of Av

Temple Beth Israel
10197 West Sunrise Blvd. (Nob Hill and Sunrise--behind Walgreens)
Eli Kavon will lead reading of Lamentations (Eichah)
Monday, July 23, 2007, 8:30 pm
For more information call (954) 742-4040

Hostel at Home, Thursday, July 26, 2007

Lecture
La Quinta Inn, 3701 University Drive, Coral Springs, FL
For more information, fees, and times call (954) 429-9666
Topic: "King David and the Politics of Israeli Archaeology"
Note: This lecture is only open to those who have paid for the complete program

Hostel at Home, Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Lecture
La Quinta Inn, 3701 University Drive, Coral Springs, FL
For more information, fees, and times call (954) 429-9666
Topic: "Israel in the Age of Extremism"
Note: This lecture is only open to those who have paid for the complete program

Lectures

Haredim: The World of the Ultra-Orthodox
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - 7PM
Levis Jewish Community Center, 9801 Donna Klein Blvd., Boca Raton
561-852-3200
Open to the public - Admission $5