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   A Talk by Dr. Eric Mazur
                     Bubbie Got Run Over by a Reindeer
                            Using Hannukah to Justify Christmas 
                            in the Public Square

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 7 p.m.    Reuter Center
                                                                                   UNC Asheville

      Eric Mazur is associate professor of religious studies and the Gloria & David Furman Chair
of Judaic Studies at Virginia Wesleyan College (Norfolk, Va.), where he teaches courses on Judaism, religion in American culture, and the academic study of religion.  He is the author of  The Americanization of Religious Minorities:  Confronting the Constitutional Order, co-author of Religion on Trial:  How Supreme Court 
Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America, co-editor of God in the Details:  American Religion
 in Popular Culture (with Kate McCarthy, Routledge, 2001), and editor of Art & the Religious Impulse and 
The Encyclopedia of Religion & Film.  He is currently working on Church and State in America for Columbia University Press's "Contemporary American Religion" series.  Eric is an editorial board member of the Journal 
of Religion and Theatre and the Journal of Religion & Popular Culture (where he is also the book review 
editor), a past editorial board member of  Southern Jewish History, and a past co-chair of the Church-State 
Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion.

                                                                          Please join us for this important talk  
                                                                                                                Free and Open to the Public

Upcoming Events:

•  December 2, 2008 at 7 p.m.

           An Evening of Sacred Chant with Rabbi Shefa Gold
           Jointly sponsored by Congregation Beth Ha Taphila, Congregation Beth Israel, the Asheville Jewish
           Community Center, and the Center for Jewish Studies at UNCA.  This program will be held at the
           Asheville Jewish Community Center.

•   February 9, 2009 at 7 p.m.
  
    An Evening with Peter Cole, MacArthur Fellow and writer, translator, publisher. 
  
    Cole will read from and discuss his most recent book, Things on Which I've Stumbled.
  

•   March 24, 2009 at 7 p.m.

            Adio Kerida, Film Screening and Discussion

            Led by MacArthur Fellow and anthropologist, filmmaker, and memoirist Ruth Behar.   Adio Kerida
            is a personal documentary about Ruth Behar's search for identify and memory among Sephardic Jews 
            with roots in Cuba.