The widest boulevard in the world is in Buenos Aires, a symbol of the optimism and ambition of the Argentine capital at the turn of the century. Containing almost one third of the people of its nation, it takes center place in the economic and political landscape of Argentina. At one time a small Spanish town with Black slaves, it was transformed into a city of money and manufacturing by thousands of Italian immigrants. Under Juan and Evita Peron its luster began to fade, a victim of bad planning and bad economics. But its magnificence is hard to undermine.

Presented by Rabbi Sherwin Wine for the Center for New Thinking.

Recorded 11-21-1995

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South America

Buenos Aires - Italians, Culture and Evita

Overstuffed chairs and overdressed women were the setting for the technological transformation of the world. The railroad and the steamship, the telegraph and the telephone, the tractor and the reaper were dramatic signs that the industrial change was indeed revolutionary. In England the amenities of private homes, including bathrooms, defined new levels of comfort. And the new machines were followed with new ideas like female suffrage and sexual liberation.

Presented by Sherwin Wine for the Center for New Thinking. March 28, 2000.

Science & Technology

New Ideas and New Machines - The Birth of a New Life Style

Presented by Sherwin Wine for the Center for New Thinking.

February 28, 1993.

Central Africa

Nigeria & Zaire - The African Dilemma

According to the Bible the world was created in six days some six thousand years ago. For 1500 years most Europeans believed that story to be true. But now the new cosmologists have presented possibilities quite different. The beginning is somewhere around 20 billion years ago. The process is no sedate creation. It is a giant atomic explosion that gives birth to particles and galaxies and stars. What exploded? What caused the explosion? What happened in the first few seconds? Are there other universes?

Presented by Sherwin Wine for the Center for New Thinking.

April 4, 2000.

Science

Origins of the Universe - the Beginning of the World

Presented by Sherwin Wine for the Center for New Thinking.

June 13, 1995.

Short History Of The Universe - a New Book by Joseph Silk

The towering cliffs of Mount Improbable can never, it seems, be climbed - to demonstrate that what is living things appears to be perfectly designed is in reality, the product of evolutionary chance. Dawkins guides the reader through the spectacular mountain passes of the natural world. We are led through the silken world of spiders. We are shown how wings gradually sprouted on the bodies of flightless animals. We see how the fig is a garden for its own teeming population of insects. We learn that the eye has evolved no less than forty times independently. The DNA molecule is on an unending unplanned adventure.

Presented by Sherwin Wine for the Center for New Thinking, March 14, 1997

Evolution

Climbing Mount Improbable - the Story of Evolution by R. Dawkins

Presented by Sherwin Wine for the Center for New Thinking.

June 8, 1995

United States Politics

Bill Clinton - From First in His Class by David Maraniss

The palace of Versailles is a symbol of Bourbon power and decadence. From the rise of Henry of Navarre the execution of Louis XVI, the Bourbons became the role models for royal power. Louis XVI tried to make France the greatest nation In Europe and in the world. He almost succeeded. But, ironically, what made France strong was the same force that was to lead to the collapse of the Bourbons. Along the way there was intrigue, scandal and an economic and intellectual revolution.

Presented by Sherwin Wine for the Center for New Thinking.

April 11, 1996

France

Bourbons - From Versailles to the Guillotine

Rabbi Sherwin Wine of the Birmingham Temple leads Rosh Hashana evening services and speaks on The Transformation of the Jew.

Date unknown.

Jewish Identity

Transformation of the Jew

In October 1999, the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism held its Leadership Graduation and first Rabbinic Ordination as part of Colloquium '99.

Movement of Humanistic Judaism

Colloquium 99 Ordination Shabbat

International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews founding conference - discussion on creation of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism.

IFSHJ

IFSHJ Founding Conference - IISHJ Discussion

International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism

Buenos Aires - Italians, Culture and Evita

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