Wild Things and Maurice Sendak: Jewish Humanist Role Model of the Year. Congregation Or Emet will host member Allan Malkis for a program on Maurice Sendak, the late celebrated author of numerous beloved children's books, who was renowned for his insights into the psyches of children. He was recently chosen the Society for Humanistic Judaism’s 2013-2014 "Humanistic Jewish Role Model".
The program will take place on Friday, March 21st, 2014 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm in the Beit Knesset of the Minneapolis Sabes Jewish Community Center (http://www.sabesjcc.org/directions.php), 4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S., St. Louis Park. A short Humanistic Jewish Sabbath service will precede the program, which is free and open to the public. An Oneg Shabbat reception will follow.
Background Information: Allan will talk about Maurice Sendak's life as a child of Holocaust survivors and how he used his childhood love for literature and animation in his later works. A lifetime atheist who was very public about his lack of belief, Sendak was quoted as saying, “My gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart." Allan Malkis has been a member of Or Emet since 1993 and is a Senior Program Evaluator for Ramsey County. He has an MA in Sociology from the University of Minnesota and a great interest in the sociology of science. He has previously given Humanist of the Year lectures on physicist Richard Feynman, naturalist Charles Darwin and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
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