New Resource
The Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (CMJE) has expanded and enhanced its Muslim and Jewish religious text resources. CMJE has compiled an online resource center including an adapted compendium of fully searchable Islamic religious texts alongside Jewish religious texts.
Each religious text has several translations in order to facilitate scholarly study, debate, and religious text study on a variety of topics. We will continue to expand this compendium in order to provide a user-friendly resource for scholarship and general educational purposes.
To explore our new resource Click Here
Muslim-Jewish Film Festival
To download the flier for the Film Series(.pdf) use the preceding link.
The film series continues with "The Dilemma of Violence"
The conflict between Muslims and Jews, Palestinians and Israelis, the East and the West often presents to those involved the dilemma of using violence. How is this violence justified, and is it ever justifiable?
PARADISE NOW (Israel/Palestine 2005)
Wednesday March 10th 2010 7:00p.m.
Leavey Library Auditorium. Click here for a campus map
Hany Abu-Assad's disturbing yet moving tale finds two men at a critical juncture in their lives. They've been drafted as suicide bombers in an upcoming assignment in Tel Aviv. Granted a night to spend with their families, they go home but are unable to say goodbye for fear of tipping their hand. But perhaps it isn't time for farewells yet as the two become separated during the mission and must decide on their own whether to continue or bail out.
MUNICH (USA 2005)
Thursday April 8th 2010 7:00p.m.
Leavey Library Auditorium. Click here for a campus map
In this thriller based on actual events, Palestinian terrorists hold hostage and ultimately kill a group of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. In the tragic aftermath of the infamous murders, a Mossad agent (Eric Bana) tracks down the assassins. Ciaran Hinds and Geoffrey Rush co-star in this film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner (award-winning playwright of "Angels in America").
Co-Sponsored by: The Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, USC Office of Religious Life, NewGround: Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, Middle East Studies Program, USC Hillel and the USC Muslim Student Union
