Press Releases 2019

• Renowned Archaeologist Jodi Magness Presents Discoveries in Ancient Israeli Synagogue Public Lecture at Rutgers-New Brunswick, December 10
• Rutgers Jewish Film Festival Celebrates 20TH Anniversary November 3–17
• Panel examines Paul Robeson’s ties to the Jewish community, left-wing political movements, and the Soviet Union in the 1940s
• Prof. Yael Zerubavel Explores Changing Views of the Desert in Zionist and Israeli Culture: Public Lecture at Rutgers-New Brunswick, Sept. 12
• Grammy-Nominated Yiddish Songs Brought to Life in Concert and Lecture March 13 at Rutgers-New Brunswick
• Zionism and the Origins of International Human Rights Explored at Public Lecture, Rutgers-New Brunswick, April 2

Press Releases 2018

• Truth is Stranger than Fiction - Bizarre Tales from the Yiddish Press Public Talk at Rutgers on March 19
•  Polish-Jewish History, Culture, and Music Explored at Two Public Programs in March
• Celebrate Israel’s 70^th anniversary on April 19 at Rutgers-New Brunswick
• “Out of the Shtetl: Anarchists, Zionists and Other Dreamers Encounter the World” Public Lecture at Rutgers-New Brunswick on April 29
• Professor Nancy Sinkoff Appointed Director of Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
• Rutgers’ Bildner Center to host Moshe Zonder, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist at Rutgers
• Israeli Author Ruby Namdar will Speak at Rutgers-New Brunswick on September 27
• America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe During WWII: Public Lecture and Teacher Workshop at Rutgers on Oct. 9 and 10
• Rutgers Jewish Film Festival To Run October 30 – November 11
• The Future of the Relationship between American Jews and Israel: Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer will Speak at Rutgers-New Brunswick on December 13

Press Releases 2017

• Award-winning Israeli Film Screens at Rutgers on February 9
• Fresh Perspectives on Jewish Law and Theology Offered at Two Public Programs: February 28 and March 8
• The Life of Golda Meir is Subject of Public Talk at Rutgers on March 27
• Shulem Deen Discusses His Memoir on Leaving Hasidic Community: April 26 at Rutgers
• Rutgers Offers Free Professional Development Course for Educators on Teaching the Holocaust, June 26 – June 30
• "Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Publlic Lecture and New Book Launch at Rutgers on September 13
• The Story of the Jews of Salonica: Public Lecture at Rutgers on October 15
• Rutgers Jewish Film Festival to Run October 29 - November 12
• Classical Jewish Texts on the Internet: Public Lecture at Rutgers on December 4

Press Releases 2016

• How Jewish Authors reinvented the American War Novel: Public Lecture at Rutgers on March 9
• The Role of Jewish Scholars in the Development of Islamic Studies in Europe
• The Apostle Paul and the Rabbis
• Post-Holocaust Anti-Semitism in Europe
• John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Holocaust Trial
• Uncovering American Jewish Life: 1766, 1866, and 1966
• Rutgers Jewish Film Festival to Run October 30 - November 13
• High school and middle school students attend free Holocaust film screening at Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
• Scripture and Tradition in Judaism: The Challenge of Modernity

Press Releases 2015

• Sacred music has made its way to the Israeli pop music scene where Israeli rock stars have adapted traditional Middle Eastern religious songs.
• Yiddish Princess, a Yiddish rock band, will perform at Rutgers on Tuesday, March 10.
• A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide - Public Lecture at Rutgers on April 14.
• Memorials, Collective Memory, and History: From the Holocaust to 9/11
• Rutgers Jewish Film Festival to Run October 28 - November 8
• Live Music and Conversation with David Broza Featured at Opening Night of Rutgers Jewish Film Festival on October 28
• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Global Religious Leader, to explore relationship between violence, religion
• Jewish-Arab Relations through the Prism of Israel’s Jewish-Arab Cities

Press Releases 2014

• Hanukkah in America Public Lecture
• Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter
• Rutgers Jewish Film Festival To Run October 29 – November 9
• How Odessa Inspired a Jewish Renaissance: Lecture and Art Exhibit
• Master Teacher Institute Fall 2014 Courses
• Student Awards 2014
• Jewish Revival in Contemporary Poland
• The Changing Shape of Modern Jewish Life as Seen through the Work of Jewish Artists
• Fiddler’s Fortunes: The Mighty Afterlife Of A Broadway Musical
• Revival of Ethnic Traditions in Israel Focus of Lecture at Rutgers
• Talk on City Life in Tel Aviv to Kick-off Exciting Slate of Spring Programs

Press Releases 2013

• Spirituality and Health
• Rutgers Jewish Film Festival 2013
• Jews and Food: Tradition, Sustainability, and Health
• Pipeline: How Oil Created the Modern Middle East and How Water Can Transform It
• Newark's Decline and Resurgence in the 20th Century as Lessons for Urban America
• Muslims and Jews in France
• Unprecedented relationship between evangelical Christians and Jews explored by Yaakov Ariel
• Shimon Attie, World-Renowned Multi-Media Artist, will speak at Rutgers
• “The Anne Frank Phenomenon”: Lecture to Kick-off Exciting Season of Public Programs at Rutgers’ Bildner Center

Press Releases 2012

• "The Zohar: Masterpiece of Kabbalah" - Public Lecture by Daniel Matt
• Rutgers Jewish Film Festival 2012
• Reconciling Judaism and Feminism in Contemporary Israeli Art: Lecture to Kick-off Exciting Fall Public Programs at Rutgers' Bildner Center
• Rutgers students recognized for excellence in Jewish Studies
• Memorial Tribute to Alvin J. Rockoff and Panel on “Memory, Nostalgia, and Dissent in Contemporary Israel”
• Challenges of Translating and Interpreting the Bible: Feldman and Alter at Rutgers
• Rutgers Master Teacher Institute (MTI) in Holocaust Education Offers Free Professional Development Course on Children and the Holocaust
• Jonathan D. Sarna Delivers Lecture on Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews on Feb. 29th

Press Releases 2011

• Gershoni-Egyptian Intellectuals’ Critique of Nazism at the Outbreak of World War II
• Libeskind: Art in the Public Place
• Student Awards 2011
• MTI Program: Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education at Rutgers offers free professional development courses for New Jersey middle and high school teachers
• Robert Mankoff and Eddy Portnoy discuss Cartooning
• Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp
• Interfaith Cooperation Benefits Soviet Jews in the 1970s
• The Jewish Soldier in Modern Jewish Memory
• From Sarajevo to Israel: Two Stories

Press Releases 2010

• Rockoff Lecture on Historical Foundations of Israel - Iran Relations
• Jewish Studies Student Award Recipients 2010
• Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education Closing Program
• Tartakoff: Jews, Converts, and Inquisitors in Medieval Spain: Recent Revelations
• Events Spring 2010 - Hollywood and Holocaust, Israeli and American Jewish Literature, and Israel's Housing Policies
• Joel Migdal - "Is there a Strategic Relationship between the United States and Israel?”

Press Releases 2009

• Israeli Commemorations of Yitzhak Rabin
• Shandler: Greeting the Season: The December Dilemma in American Jewish Popular Culture
• Film Festival 2009
• Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland
• Kurtzer Lecture: Terrorists, Tyrants, Tycoons and Theocrats: American Challenges in the Middle East
• Student Awards 2009

Press Releases 2007-08

• Bildner Center Presents 9th Annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
• Bildner Center Presents Interfaith Public Program
• Israeli Politics: the Military and Civil Society
• Panel on “Film as a Catalyst For Social Change” with Filmmaker Judith Helfand
• Rutgers 8th Annual New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
• Bildner Center Presents Lecture on "The People of the Book and Oral Memory"
• Bildner Center Lecture Explores the Israeli Constitution
• Bildner Center Lecture Explores the Importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Bildner Center Lecture Explores Israeli Foreign Policy Toward West Germany in the 1950s
• Bildner Center Explores Jewish History and Culture in Israel and Present-Day Ukraine