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Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival Presents In-Person and Virtual Screenings
October 19, 2022 — With films in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Catalan, Russian, French, Polish, and German, the 23rd Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival is decidedly international in scope.

Jewish Link
South Korean Student Wins Jewish Studies Honor at Rutgers University
June 9, 2022 — Seeking a career in a Jewish day school would not be unusual for someone with degrees in Jewish studies and education

New Jersey Jewish News
Rutgers student from Livingston is honored
June 8, 2022 — Samuel Lurie of Livingston, a double major in Jewish studies and history at Rutgers University

Jewish Link
How to Teach Holocaust Lessons Using 'Maus'
April 7, 2022 — A teacher using the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic comic “Maus” for the first time to instruct students about the Holocaust 

MyCentralJersey.com
Rutgers Jewish center answers 'Maus' ban with free lessons on Holocaust novel for teachers
February 3, 2022 — In the wake of a Tennessee school board banning a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its curriculum, organizations at Rutgers University are doubling down on its importance.

Jewish Standard
'Once We Were Slaves'
January 26, 2022 — Laura Leibman tells a Jewish story from enslavement in Barbados to social prominence in New York

Town Topics
Author and Scholar to Present Programs On Multiracial Jews in This Country
January 12, 2022 — It is probably safe to say that most people associate the history of Jews in America with those who emigrated from Eastern European countries in the late 19th century.

Jewish Link
Rutgers Exhibit Explores History of Jewish Farming in NJ and Beyond
December 23, 2021 — When many people think of the waves of Jewish immigrants who came to this country around the turn of the last century, peddlers with pushcarts and shop owners crowded into cities are often pictured.

Jewish Standard
Fighting for their families' lives
December 1, 2021 — In April 1944, Manfred Gans declined an invitation to attend officer school

MyCentralJersey.com
Rutgers Jewish Film Festival returns on Nov. 7
November 5, 2021 — The annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival presented by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life is back for the 22nd year.

New Jersey Jewish News
Jewish farmers in the Garden State
October 14, 2021 — Visiting Bildner Center scholar will talk about the history of immigrant agriculture

Rutgers Today
The History of Jewish Farming in New Jersey
October 6, 2021 — A New Online Exhibit: "Jewish Agriculturalism in the Garden State" launches Oct. 21 with a virtual public talk

Jewish Link
What's in a Name? Name Changing Among American Jews
January 21, 2021 — What's in a name?

Jewish Standard
What's in a name?
January 6, 2021 — Scholar will talk about Roses and Rosenbergs for Rutgers