OCCSP.org : CSP Online Zoom™ Events
Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program Online Zoom™ Events are our way of staying connected, and continuing our mission to Ignite your Passion for Judaism. Our list is updated often as new events are planned. We hope to see you there!To Join our online events, you will need to register for each event you wish to attend, and you will need to install the Zoom™ Software. To view previous events visit our Online Event Library.
Sunday January 8, 2023
4:00-5:00 PM PST
Prof. Stephen Berk
Demystifying History Part 1 (A Tale of Two Popes: Pope Pius XII and John Paul II)
Tuesday January 10, 2023
12:30-1:30 PM PST
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz
Psychedelics & The Future of Judaism
Thursday January 12, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
Dr. David Mendelsohn
History & Philosophy of Islam, Part 2 (Muhammad and His Visions)
Sunday January 15, 2023
4:00-5:00 PM PST
Prof. Stephen Berk
Demystifying History Part 2 (FDR and the Holocaust)
Tuesday January 17, 2023
12:30-1:30 PM PST
Evgenia Kempinski
A Visit to the Heart of the Ancient Silk Road:
The Jews of Uzbekistan
Thursday January 19, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
Dr. David Mendelsohn
History & Philosophy of Islam, Part 3 (Aisha, Fatima and the Sunni-Shia Split)
Sunday January 22, 2023
4:00-5:00 PM PST
Prof. Stephen Berk
Demystifying History Part 3 (Our People are Your People: American Jews and the SOur People are Your People: American Jews and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Tuesday January 24 2023
12:30-1:30 PM PST
Nachliel Selavan
The Third Side of the Coin
Thursday January 26, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
Dr. David Mendelsohn
History & Philosophy of Islam, Part 4 (The Hajj – The Pilgrimage to End All Pilgrimage)
Saturday January 28, 2023
7:00-8:30 PM
Havdalah with Duvid Swirsky
CSP Havdallah Event in University Park
Sunday January 29, 2023
4:00-5:00 PM PST
Prof. Stephen Berk
Demystifying History Part 4 (Putin, Ukraine and the Jews)
Tuesday January 31, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
Dr. Tanya White The Radical Responsibility of Rabbi Sacks:
The Problem of Evil as a call to Action
Thursday February 2, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Mendelsohn
4-Part Series – From the Rise of an Empire to the Arab Spring: Understanding the Arab and Islamic World (Part 1 – “The Rise of an Empire”
Sunday February 5, 2022
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Horovitz
An Overview of Israeli Current Affairs
Tuesday February 7, 2023
12:30-1:30 PM PST
Howard Lupovitch
Herzl’s Budapest
Thursday February 9, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Mendelsohn
4-Part Series – From the Rise of an Empire to the Arab Spring: Understanding the Arab and Islamic World (Part 2 – “The Golden Age”)
Tuesday February 14, 2023
11:00-Noon PST
Maggie Anton
The Choice – A Novel of Love, Faith and the Talmud (A Conversation with Award-winning author MAGGIE ANTON) JCCOC event
Thursday February 16, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Mendelsohn
4-Part Series – From the Rise of an Empire to the Arab Spring: Understanding the Arab and Islamic World (Part 3 – “Pan-Arabism/Pan Islamism”)
Sunday February 19, 2023
4:00-5:00 PM PST
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblet
Curating Between Hope and Despair: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Tuesday February 21, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
Clinton Bailey/David Mendelsohn
The Bedouin and the Hebrew Bible
Thursday February 23, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Mendelsohn
4-Part Series – From the Rise of an Empire to the Arab Spring: Understanding the Arab and Islamic World (Part 4 – “Into the Modern Map and the Contemporary Arab Spring”)
Tuesday February 28, 2023
12:30-1:45 PM PST
Evgenia Kempinski
Jews of Argentina: “They sowed seeds and harvested doctors”
Thursday
February 2, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Mendelsohn
Shirel
4-Part Series – From the Rise of an Empire to the Arab Spring: Understanding the Arab and Islamic World (Part 1 – “The Rise of an Empire”
Sunday
February 5, 2022
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Horovitz
Shirel
An Overview of Israeli Current Affairs
Tuesday
February 7, 2023
12:30-1:30 PM PST
Howard Lupovitch
Arie
Herzl’s Budapest
Thursday
February 9, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Mendelsohn
Shirel
4-Part Series – From the Rise of an Empire to the Arab Spring: Understanding the Arab and Islamic World (Part 2 – “The Golden Age”
Tuesday
February 14, 2023
11:00-Noon PST
Maggie Anton
The Choice – A Novel of Love, Faith and the Talmud (A Conversation with Award-winning author MAGGIE ANTON) JCCOC event
Thursday
February 16, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Mendelsohn
Shirel 4-Part Series – From the Rise of an Empire to the Arab Spring: Understanding the Arab and Islamic World (Part 3 – “Pan-Arabism/Pan Islamism”)
Sunday
February 19, 2023
4:00-5:00 PM PST
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblet
Arie
Curating Between Hope and Despair: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Tuesday
February 21, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
Clinton Bailey/David Mendelsohn
Shirel
The Bedouin and the Hebrew Bible
Thursday
February 23, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM PST
David Mendelsohn
Shirel 4-Part Series – From the Rise of an Empire to the Arab Spring: Understanding the Arab and Islamic World (Part 4 – “Into the Modern Map and the Contemporary Arab Spring”)
Tuesday
February 28, 2023
12:30-1:45 PM PST
Claudia Hercman
Evgenia Kempinski
Jews of Argentina: “They sowed seeds and harvested doctors”