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February 26, 2012 from 9:30 AM

Can agnosticism make sense for those with a strong Jewish secular identity?
Why would an agnostic envy those with faith and spiritual undergirding?

Join Dr. Michael Krasny as he speaks on his book, Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Quest, and explores some of these puzzling questions.

Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is host of KQED’s award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business, and technology.

Since 1970, he has been a professor of English at San Francisco State University and has taught at Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco.

He is a widely published scholar and literary critic, a fiction writer, and a guest and frequent interviewer on the City Arts & Lectures stage.

Dr. Krasny has interviewed many of the leading newsmakers and cultural icons of our time, including former President Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Hilary Rodham Clinton, Francis Ford Coppola, Don DeLillo, Newt Gingrich, Vice President Al Gore, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, President Barack Obama, Rosa Parks, Nancy Pelosi, Robert Redford, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John Updike, and countless others.

He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including The S.Y. Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Distinction, The Eugene Block Award for Human Rights Journalism, The Inclusiveness in Media Award from The National Conference for Community and Justice, and a Koret Foundation Fellowship. He has also been named best talk show host by Focus magazine, a number of Bay Area newspapers, The San Francisco Publicity Club, and Citysearch.

Exploring the World of Judaism is a program of Congregation Shir Hadash and the Bureau of Jewish Education and is supported in part by the Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust.

Contact: Nadine Toby, nadine@shirhadash.org, 408-358-1751 x5
Organization: Congregation Shir Hadash
Website Link: http://www.shirhadash.org/calendar/e/02165
Location: 20 Cherry Blossom Lane, Los Gatos

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