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WINTER and SPRING 2007 NEWS Allen and Joan Bildner receive Rutgers' Human Dignity AwardAllen and Joan Bildner received the Human Dignity Award from President Richard M. McCormick on April 18, 2007. See Rutgers Focus article.
MTI teacher chosen for JFR dinner:
At the special invitation of Leonard Littman, Fran Flannery, a participant in the Center's two-year Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education, and her students attended the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous annual dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Nov 28, 2006. Through a competitive essay contest, nine South Plainfield High School students who have been studying the Holocaust and genocide were selected to attend the dinner program. The highlight of the dinner was the reunion of Lithunian rescuer Geidrute Ivanauskiene with the woman she and her family rescued during the Holocaust, Lea Ingel, who lives in Florida.
See photo of the dinner. SPRING and SUMMER 2006 NEWS
 Master Teacher Institute participants at Karen Small Receives Honey and Maurice Axelrod Award
Karen Small, the Bildner Center's associate director, has been selected to receive the Honey and Maurice Axelrod Award, which is given to educators who have demonstrated outstanding efforts in teaching the Holocaust and genocide in their classrooms, as well as to others who are continuing efforts to reduce bias, bigotry, and prejudice in their communities. The award is presented by the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and the Anti-Defamation League of New Jersey.
Yael Zerubavel delivers talk at conference in London.
Dr. Yael Zerubavel was a featured speaker at the international conference "Nations and the Past: Representing the Past, Building the Future," organized by the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) at the London School of Economics in March. She delivered a talk entitled "National Memory and the Recreation of Jewish Antiquity in Modern Israeli Culture."
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