Hatikvah: Sacred Readings of a Secular Text

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Sunday, September 13, 2020
2:00 PM
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Program Hatikvah became the anthem of the Zionist movement, and eventually the State of Israel, only by means of common voluntary practice, not by legislative force. Its status as the Zionist anthem was contested almost from its moment of incubation in the mid-1880s. Attempts

BlacKkKlansman

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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
7:00 PM
Presented by the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival BlacKkKlansman : Virtual Film Discussion with Ron Stallworth, Charlie Wachtel, and David Rabinowitz In the 1970s, as the struggle for civil rights in America raged on, Ron Stallworth became the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Eager to make a

RESISTANCE: Film Discussion with Jesse Eisenberg

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
7:00 PM
Presented by the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival RESISTANCE Film Discussion with Jesse Eisenberg Wednesday, July 15 | 7:00 PM | Free Long before he rose to international fame as a mime, Marcel Marceau put his fledgling career as an artist on hold to spirit Jewish refugee children out of Nazi-occupied

Writing the Life of Lucy S. Dawidowicz

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
12:00 PM
Join Professor Nancy Sinkoff for the launch of her acclaimed new book, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History Sinkoff’s talk will draw from her book, the first comprehensive biography of Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990), a pioneer historian in the field

Jerusalem: City of the Book

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Sunday, March 29, 2020
4:00 PM
As per Rutgers University, this program was cancelled as of March 11, 2020 in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19). For more information and the official Rutgers University statement, visit https://coronavirus.rutgers.edu/ . The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program A Panel Discussion Jerusalem is an extraordinary city where some of the