religion

“You look too skinny. Eat, eat!�? Bring your appetite and your curiosity Sunday, May 4 to Congregation Beth Shalom’s annual Jewish food and cultural festival, Café Shalom. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., visitors can sample Middle Eastern pastries and traditional Jewish foods as they soak in the atmosphere of Modesto’s only synagogue.

(Stockton, Calif.) – Garry Wills, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar, will speak at University of the Pacific’s Faye Spanos Concert Hall at 7 p.m. Nov. 9. The appearance is the 2006 Colliver Lecture, established in 1957 in memory of George Colliver, a former religious studies professor at Pacific. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing will be held afterward.