Rabbi Sherwin Wine explores the history, culture, practices and beliefs of American Jews.

American Judaism

Rabbi Sherwin Wine speaks about Phillip Roth's book The Plot Against America which describes an alternative history in which Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. What follows in the book is the struggles of the Roth family as antisemitism spreads the persecution of Jewish-American families becomes more common. Rabbi Sherwin Wine highlights the key takeaways from this novel and describes his experiences with antisemitism in America during World War II.
Recorded December 11, 2004.

To learn more about the life and work of Rabbi Sherwin Wine, please visit www.SherwinWine.com.

Anti-Semitism

The Plot Against America By Phillip Roth 12-11-04

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

Rabbi Sherwin Wine explores the lives and careers of political activist Emma Goldman and former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Louis Brandeis (1916-1939).
Recorded at the Birmingham Temple on December 14th, 1985.

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Historical Jewish Figures

Emma Goldman And Louis Brandeis 12-14-85

Rabbi Sherwin Wine provides a commentary on the complex relationship between the Nation of Islam and the Jewish community.
Recorded on March 25th, 1994 at the Birmingham Temple.

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Black-Jewish Relationships

Farrakhan Phenomenan-Blacks And Jews 3-25-94

Rabbi Sherwin Wine speaks about Jewish American baseball player Hank Greenberg at the Birmingham Temple.
Recorded on June 16th, 2000.

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Hank Greenberg 6-16-00

Rabbi Sherwin Wine discusses the Hasidic movement and Jewish fundamentalists in America at the Birmingham Temple.
Recorded on September 16th, 1994.

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Hasidism In America 9-16-94

Rabbi Sherwin Wine provides a commentary on the impact pro-Israel lobbies have on American and Israeli politics.
Recorded at the Birmingham Temple on November 23rd, 1987.

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Israeli Lobby 11-23-87

International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism

The Plot Against America By Phillip Roth 12-11-04

IISHJ

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