Wednesday, July 30,2008

An Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem

(University of Wisconsin), by Emil Fackenheim

German Jews were a small but significant minority, contributing greatly to their country’s culture until they were murdered or driven to exile by Hitler. Emil Fackenheim escaped shortly before the outbreak of World War II and became a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto and a rabbi serving the local Jewish community before emigrating to Israel in his final years. Epitaph is the last manuscript Fackenheim composed before his death in 2003, a compact memoir interesting not only for his life but his lifetime of reflection on the larger questions that eluded many 20th century philosophers. For Fackenheim, morality was not relative and evil was never an abstraction. He stared into the face of it and barely held on to his life.

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Have A Heart: American Heart Association Benefit Show

All Good Things, My Disaster March, and The Lillies have joined forces to help raise money and awareness for both the American Heart Association and Heart Disease. There is no cover, but we do ask for a $5 donation at the door. All proceeds go the the AHA.

Location: Central Milwaukee

Comedy

Sex Drive

Eighteen-year-old Ian Lafferty sets out on a cross country drive with his best friends Lance and Felicia in order to lose his virginity to a red-hot babe he met on the Internet. But the journey, filled wi

Drama

Body of Lies

"Body of Lies" is based on "Washington Post" columnist David Ignatius' 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris, who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of J