Following are streaming video clips from the film, The Jew in the Lotus, playing at the Cinema Village in New York City for one week only from Jan 26 to Feb 6, 1999.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/film/012999lotus-film-review.2.ram

http://www.nytimes.com/library/film/012999lotus-film-review.3.ram

December 31, 1998: National Public Radio, All Things Considered: NPR's Lynn Neary reports on some of the work that made 1998 a big year for spirituality writing. It was one of the fastest growing segments in publishing, as people of many faiths wrote about their spiritual beliefs, experiences, practices and rituals. Lynn talked with a few of the writers (including Rodger Kamenetz) included in a new book, The Best Spiritual Writing of 1998. Edited by Phillip Zelesky, the book is published by Harper San Francisco. (7:15)

April 25, 1997: National Public Radio, Morning Edition: NPR's Lynn Neary reports that before the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, ended his visit to the United States, he took part in a Jewish seder in Washington. The seder is a traditional meal marking the holiday of Passover, when Jews repeat the story of their escape from slavery in Egypt....a story Jewish and Buddhist leaders believe closely mirrors the Tibetan people's persecution under Chinese. Rodger Kamenetz is interviewed.

Appearances

BOOK CLUBS
During the spring of 2008 Rodger will be available via telephone or video conference to groups of 25 or more who have purchased The History of Last Night’s Dream and wish to discuss it with him. 

There are only a limited number of times available. If your book club or reading group is interested, please write books@kamenetz.com

LECTURES AND READINGS
Rodger has given lectures, talks, led text study, and conducted weekend retreats and shabbatons all over North America and Europe.

He has spoken at Yale, Harvard and Stanford and many other universities and colleges; at Jewish, Buddhist, Unitarian and Catholic institutions; at the 92nd Street Y, the Rabbinical Assembly, the National Hillel Conference, the National Board of Trustees for the Union of Reform Judaism; at the Prague Summer Seminars, the Chrysostom Society, and the Glen Workshops.

He gives formal lectures, informal talks, seminars, poetry readings, text study. His lectures are full of jokes, singing and spontaneous poetry—he loves to go back and forth with his audience and engage their questions at the deepest level. 

A list of his current topics follows.

• “What  I Learned About Judaism From the Dalai Lama”
• “Buddhist Questions and Jewish Answers”
• “The Struggle between the Image and the Word: Religions of the Word in a time of Images”
• “The Uninterpretation of Dreams: How to Work With Dreams”
• “The Three Gifts of the Dream in Genesis”
• “The Case of the Disappearing Dream: The Rabbis, the Church Fathers, Freud and Jung”

If you are sincerely interested in having Rodger speak to your group, please send for details, dates, and fees at lectures@kamenetz.com