Feb. 8, 2006

VCU Judaic studies professor to give lecture series at Woman’s Club

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By Loreal Bond
University News Services

Jack Spiro will present “To Fathom the Unfathomable: Probing the Core of Religion” during the Women’s Club 2006 Winter Lecture Series. Photo courtesy of VCU School of World Studies.
Jack Spiro will present “To Fathom the Unfathomable: Probing the Core of Religion” during the Women’s Club 2006 Winter Lecture Series. Photo courtesy of VCU School of World Studies.

Jack Spiro, Ed.D., director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, will present four lectures during the Woman’s Club 2006 Winter Lecture Series.

The series, “To Fathom the Unfathomable: Probing the Core of Religion,” begins Wednesday Feb. 15, and will continue for three consecutive Wednesdays from noon until 1 p.m. in the auditorium of the Woman’s Club, Bolling Haxall House, 211 E. Franklin St.

Spiro will address topics such as what about human beings makes us “homo religious – the religious animal, and what ideas surface when beliefs and behaviors of religious experience are explored.

The cost for the series is $35. Drinks are provided and box lunches are available by reservation.

Spiro is the Harry Lyons Distinguished Chair of Judaic Culture at VCU and also is rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Ahabah in Richmond.

For more information, visit www.twcrichmond.org.