St. Thomas Newsroom | October 26, 2007 University News

Princeton University economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, at Temple Israel, 2324 Emerson Ave. S., Minneapolis.

Krugman will discuss “Conscience of a Liberal,” which is the title of his most recent book. The discussion will be in the form of an interview with David Morris, vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Free and open to the public, the talk is sponsored by Temple Israel, Magers and Quinn Booksellers, and the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning, which is a partnership of St. John’s University and the University of St. Thomas.

Krugman, 54, taught at Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, London School of Economics and Stanford University before joining the Princeton faculty in 2000. That year he began writing a twice-weekly op-ed column for The New York Times.

He has written more than 200 scholarly papers and 20 books, some academic and some for general audiences. In Conscience of a Liberal, Krugman explores the past 80 years of American history with a focus on what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a “new New Deal.”

Krugman received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association and in 2002 was named Columnist of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine. His other books include The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations and Pop Internationalism.

For more information call the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning, (651) 962- 5780, or Magers and Quinn, (612) 822-4611.

St. Thomas Newsroom | September 28, 2007 University News

A noted rabbi who is a New Testament scholar with extensive experience in Jewish- Christian relations will discuss “Jewish Views of Jesus: Yesterday to Today and Tomorrow” in an upcoming program co-sponsored by Luther Seminary and the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning of St. John’s University and the University of St. Thomas.

Rabbi Michael Cook, who holds the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judaeo- Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, will give the talk at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Luther Seminary Chapel at 2481 Como Ave., St. Paul.

The only rabbi in America to hold a full professorial chair in New Testament, Cook will present his personal position on Jesus, how the Jewish tradition has viewed Jesus over 20 centuries, and the problem of how Jesus is viewed by Jewish laity today.

Cook serves on many advisory boards related to Jewish-Christian relations and recently finished a major book, Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-Being in a Christian Environment, which will be released next year.

The Rev. Marilyn Salmon, an Episcopal priest and associate professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, will give a Christian response to Cook’s remarks. She is the author of the recently published Preaching Without Contempt: Overcoming Unintended Anti-Judaism.

The program is free and open to the public; no reservations are required. More information is available from Luther Seminary at (651) 641-3456 or from the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning at (651) 962-5780.