The Daily Targum:

11/11/05 — The sixth annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, presents screenings with commentary by each film's directors, or noted experts in other aspects of the Jewish experience.

 

Home News Tribune:

11/8/05 — The Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival maintains a scholarly bent, presenting "issue"-oriented fare confronting topics such as gender, suicide bombers and the Holocaust. "We try to show films that reflect the Jewish experience," says Karen Small, associate director of the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

9/6/05 — Rutgers University’s Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life presented a lecture on Jewish and Buddhist Lenses on Ritual Practice by Jane Marie Law, associate professor of Japanese religions and ritual studies at Cornell University, in connection with the Sept. 25 appearance of the Dalai Lama at Rutgers.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

9/6/05 — Rutgers University’s Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life has launched New Jersey’s first Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education. Funded through the center’s Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center, the institute is designed to offer middle school and high school teachers an in-depth understanding of the Holocaust and its impact on today’s world.

 

The Jewish State:

6/10/05 — New Jersey high school students reflect on their European trips to study the Holocaust at a Bildner Center gathering.

 

 The Jewish State:

6/10/05 — Eighteen Rutgers students, majoring and minoring in Jewish Studies, were recognized at an awards ceremony May 3 for their academic achievements.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

5/5/05 — Professor Azzan Yadin teaches Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah at Rutgers.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

5/5/05 — Two Douglass College women - one Jewish, with an Israeli/American heritage, the other Arab Christian, of Moroccan descent - have joined hands in an initiative to harness the power of women to promote Arab/Jewish peace.

 

The Daily Targum:

4/29/05 — The Middle East Coexistence Project at Rutgers featured two speakers that addressed the importance and possibility of cooperation between the various cultures located in the region.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

4/28/05 — From Museums to Comic Books: Images of the Holocaust in the Public Sphere, a two-part series of workshops on the Holocaust for high school teachers, was sponsored by the Bildner Center and its Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center, with additional funding from Dr. Theodore and Eva Stahl of Highland Park.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

4/7/05 — A panel discussion, "The Passions Surrounding The Passion: A Look Back at a Controversial Film", was sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.