Past Events 2013-2014

Pipeline: How Oil Created the Modern Middle East and How Water Can Transform It

 

Rachel Havrelock, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Rutgers Student Center, 126 College Avenue
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Program
Cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Jews and Food: Tradition, Sustainability and Health

 

October 8, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick

Nigel Savage, Executive Director, Hazon
Jennifer Berg, New York University
Jordan Rosenblum, University of Wisconsin
Cosponsored  by the GAIA Centers’ 2013-2015  Biennial Theme: Global Health! 

Memorial Tribute to Joan L. Bildner will precede the program.

 Remarks by
Dr. Richard L. McCormick, President Emeritus, Rutgers University
Dr. Yael Zerubavel, Director, Bildner Center

Spirituality and Health

 

Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30pm
Jeff Levin, University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Baylor University
David Ellenson, President, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Moderator: Deborah Carr, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
Douglass Student Center
100 George Street, New Brunswick
 
Supported in part by the Sagner Family Foundation
Cosponsored by The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers
and Rutgers GAIA Centers’ 2013-2015 Biennial Theme: Global Health!

Fiddler’s Fortunes: The Mighty Afterlife Of A Broadway Musical

 

Alisa Solomon, Columbia University
Journalism scholar, writer, and theater critic
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 7:30pm
Douglass Campus Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick
The Abram Matlofsky Memorial Program

Tel Aviv: Between the Margins and the Center of Israeli Society

Canceled due to adverse weather conditions

Gadi Taub, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
Israeli author, historian and social commentator
Monday, February 3, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.
Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick

Student Program, February 3 at 7:30 P.M. at Bildner Center

New Forms of Ethnic Traditions: Israel in the 21st Century

 

Galit Hasan Rokem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The Bildner Visiting Scholar, Rutgers
Folkore scholar, poet, and translator
Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.
Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick

Jewish Revival in Contemporary Poland

 

Geneviève Zubrzycki, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan
May 12, 2014 at 7:30pm
Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick
The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman

Jewish Art and the Struggle of Tradition in Modernity

 

Richard I. Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tuesday, april 1, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Douglass Student Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick
The Ruth Ellen Steinman and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture
Cosponsored by the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

BESA: The Promise

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies &
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life presents
Film screening with guest producer Jason Williams
March 7th Friday 3-5 p.m.
Teleconference Lecture Hall
Alexander Library, Rutgers
New Brunswick NJ
parking available in lots 26, 30 and the College Avenue Parking Deck