Past Events

Funded by the Sagner Family Foundation Michal Raucher in conversation with Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women , (forthcoming Indiana University Press Fall 2020). Conceiving Agency explores the ways Israeli Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although they must contend with interference from doctors,

3 Session Mini-Course Tuesdays: October 13, 20, 27, 2020 Taught by Marc Herman , Aresty Visiting Scholar This mini-course explores the ways that medieval Jews used ideas first found in Islamic legal theory to help them rethink their tradition and, ultimately, to reconstitute Judaism in new terms. Two major personalities

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

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

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

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

As per Rutgers University, this program was cancelled in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19). For more information and the official Rutgers University statement, visit https://coronavirus.rutgers.edu/ . Mini-course taught by Curt Leviant, professor emeritus of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, novelist, and translator Three Session Course Mondays: April 20, 27, May 4

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 Ruth Ellen Steinman Bloustein and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture Cosponsored with the Edward J. Bloustein School of

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

Nicholas Music Center, Rutgers University 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 A Musical Performance and Talk featuring Jazz Pianist Ted Rosenthal Ted Rosenthal , acclaimed jazz pianist and composer of the original jazz opera Dear Erich , and two professional singers will perform music from his powerful new work.

Opal Grand Resort 10 North Ocean Boulevard, Delray Beach, Florida Rutgers in Florida Join Rutgers alumni and friends for a fascinating talk on ancient Jewish manuscripts. Gary A. Rendsburg , the Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair of Jewish History, Rutgers University, will discuss Hebrew manuscripts held by the major libraries

Rutgers Cinema, Livingston Campus 105 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway The Abram Matlofsky Memorial Program supported by the Karma Foundation Director: Asaf Galay 2020, 85 minutes, in English Sneak peek at a new film. Saul Bellow was one of the twentieth-century America's most acclaimed novelists, winner of the Nobel Prize in

Douglass Student Center - Trayes Hall 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Jodi Magness , Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Since 2011, Professor Jodi Magness has been directing excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel's Galilee.

Douglass Student Center - Trayes Hall 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program, funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman Co-sponsored by the Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration at Rutgers . Panel Discussion Four leading historians will explore Paul Robeson’s connections to the Jewish community, left-wing political

Douglass Student Center - Trayes Hall 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture Yael Zerubavel , Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University Yael Zerubavel will discuss her new book, Desert in the Promised Land , which explores the multiple meanings

RESCHEDULED FROM FEBRUARY 20, 2019 Michael Marissen, Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music, Swarthmore College Mason Gross Performing Arts Center - Robert E. Mortensen Hall 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Presented by Mason Gross School of the Arts and cosponsored by the Bildner Center and the Jewish Music

LOCATION: Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick Support provided by the Henry Schwartzman Endowed Fund. James Loeffler , Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History, University of Virginia 2018 marked the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the United

Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program Psoy Korolenko , Singer-songwriter Anna Shternshis , Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies, University of Toronto In the early 1940s, a group of Soviet Jewish scholars began a remarkable project: gathering

Location: Rutgers Cinema Livingston Campus, Rutgers University 105 Joyce Kilmer Ave, Piscataway Township, NJ 08854 Co-sponsored by: - The Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center - New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education Please join us for a screening of Who Will Write Our History , the incredible true story of archives

College Avenue Student Center, 126 College Avenue The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture Yehuda Kurtzer, President, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America The relationship between American Jews and Israel, whose closeness and alignment characterized much of the 20th century, is on uncertain ground. Denominational and partisan divides, the demise