Celebrating our 16th year, the mission of the Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program is to share the joy of Judaism, build community, and celebrate our Jewish heritage with a rich adult education program and unique family experiences. Whether we are picking apples for Rosh Hashana, celebrating Shabbat while camping, clapping along with Jewish Blues or Rock musicians, hosting a community-wide Shabbat Alive outdoors, learning with internationally-known scholars or making life-long Jewish friends at family and adult retreats, CSP has programs to offer for all ages. We ignite passion for Judaism!
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Sincerely,
Arie Katz
Community Scholar Program
949.682.4040
CSP is supported by an IMPACT Grant from Jewish Federation & Family Services, Orange County and by a generous grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County
Dr. Eric Cline
2nd Annual Summer Archeology Series
1177 BC: The Collapse of Civilisations and the Rise of Israel
Sunday, August 21, 2016 - 7:15 pm at Temple Bat Yahm
Raiders of the Fau Ark: From Noah's Ark to the Ark of the Covenant
Monday August 22, 2016 - 12:15 pm at Univeristy Synagogue
Excavating Armageddon: New Discoveries and Old Debates at Meggido
Monday August 22, 2016 - 7:15 PM pm at Temple Beth El
Free to CSP $180+ Members with RSVP by August 1, 2016
Special rates apply to TBY, US & TBEl members
$18 per person/ per program general admission
12th Annual CSP Summer Scholar Institute
Serious Comedy: Popular Jewish Culture of the Twentieth Century- and Beyond
July 13-16, 2014
Dr. Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classics and Anthropology, the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the current Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute. He is a National Geographic Explorer, a Fulbright scholar, an NEH Public Scholar, and an award-winning teacher and author. In May 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree (honoris causa) from Muhlenberg College. An archaeologist and ancient historian by training, Dr. Cline’s primary fields of study are biblical archaeology, the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present, and the international connections between Greece, Egypt, and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age (1700-1100 BCE). He is an experienced and active field archaeologist, with more than 30 seasons of excavation and survey to his credit since 1980 in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States. Dr. Cline is currently Co-Director of the renewed series of archaeological excavations at the site of Tel Kabri, also located in Israel, which began in 2005. The project is run by the University of Haifa and The George Washington University (Assaf Yasur-Landau and Eric H. Cline). He was also a member of the Megiddo Expedition, in Israel, excavating at biblical Armageddon for ten seasons over a twenty-year period, from 1994 to 2014.