Past Events

Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Lecture funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman Dr. Rebecca Erbelding , Historian America has long been criticized for refusing to give harbor to the Jews of Europe as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. Now a

Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick Ruby Namdar's The Ruined House , is this Israeli author's response to experiencing Jewish life in America. In conversation with Professor Nancy Sinkoff, Namdar will discuss his sources of inspiration, his new-found relationship to the great Jewish-American authors of the

A special program honoring the career and scholarship of Professor Yael Zerubavel upon her retirement from Rutgers University. Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Parking available behind the Douglass Student Center in the parking lot and deck. Omer Bartov , John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of

7:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: New Trends in Israeli Music and Dance Galeet Dardashti and Dina Roginsky moderated by Yael Zerubavel 8:30 p.m. Concert by IsraBand ISRABAND is an Israeli cover band based in NYC that is specialized in providing the audience with an authentic and refreshing experience through a variety

Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick The Abram Matlofksy Annual program funded by the Karma Foundation Eddy Portnoy , YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Dr. Portnoy will discuss his new book, Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press , an alternative

Location: Kirkpatrick Chapel, 81 Somerset Street, New Brunswick Jewish inhabitants of Polish cities, like their counterparts elsewhere, responded to the challenges of modernity in diverse ways, which included reshaping the musical soundscapes of their communities. This concert presents music of Polish Jews that is little known to American audiences—choral pieces

Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick Funding provided by the Henry Schwartzman Endowed Faculty Seminar Fund Dr. Uriel Gellman , Bar-Ilan University Dr. Marcin Wodziński , University of Wrocław Hasidism: A New History is the first comprehensive history of the movement that dramatically transformed modern Judaism.

Academic Building, B1170, 15 Seminary Place A digital reconstruction of the Jewish Ghetto of Florence, which originated in the middle of the 16th century is presented by the Medici Archive Project. By sifting through hundreds of documents, they have mapped the ghetto (destroyed at the end of the 19th century)

Visit the Bildner Center’s “Windows” Now on view through February 15 Locations: 65 Church Street, New Brunswick 121 Raritan Ave, Highland Park A public art project initiated to understand diversity, combat hate, and build community in New Brunswick and Highland Park coordinated by Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts,

Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick Professor Gary Rendsburg Blanche and Irving Laurie Professor of Jewish History Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies Rutgers University Scroll Down: Classical Jewish Texts, from Parchment to Internet Over the course of more than two millennia, Jewish texts have transitioned from

Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program Cosponsored by the Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA Centers) Devin Naar , University of Washington The Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish

Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick Professor Jeffrey Shandler , Rutgers University Professor Shandler will explore exceptional moments captured in video interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded by the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Drawing on an in-depth study of these interviews, the talk will address remarkable examples,

Trayes Hall, Douglas Student Center , 100 George Street, New Brunswick Shulem Deen , Author The Abram Matlofsky Annual Program funded by the Karma Foundation Shulem Deen will discuss his memoir, All Who Go Do Not Return, winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 2015. A moving and revealing

Trayes Hall, Douglas Student Center , 100 George Street, New Brunswick Pnina Lahav , Boston University The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Program Pnina Lahav is a professor of law and a core faculty member of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. She is the author

Trayes Hall, Douglas Student Center , 100 George Street, New Brunswick Yakir Englander, Bildner Visiting Scholar This lecture will address the changing role of the rabbi in Religious Zionism in response to advances in technology in the 21st century. The impact of the media has changed the power dynamics between

Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Civic Square, 33 Livingston Avenue , New Brunswick Shahar Sadeh , Columbia University The Ruth Ellen Steinman and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture Cosponsored by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Since its establishment, Israel has gone through extensive

Rutgers Jewish Film Festival - Special Winter Screening NEW DATE: Wednesday, March 1 at 7:30 pm Tickets from February 9 will be honored on March 1 General Public: $10 Rutgers faculty, staff (limit 2 tickets) and students (limit 1 ticket) free with Rutgers ID at the door. Cosponsored by Department

Trayes Hall, Douglas Student Center , 100 George Street, New Brunswick Yakir Englander, Bildner Visiting Scholar Yakir Englander, an expert on the interface between Jewish philosophy, Jewish law, and gender studies, will present a new interpretation of the concept of traditional Jewish martyrdom, Kiddush Hashem (Sanctification of the Name of

College Avenue Student Center , 126 College Avenue, New Brunswick Benjamin Sommer , The Jewish Theological Seminary One of the most important, but least understood, doctrines of Judaism is the idea of the Torah she-be-al Peh, or the Oral Torah. Professor Sommer will discuss what the Talmudic rabbis mean when

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