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Past Events
Spring 2006 Events
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February 23 |
The Face of Justice:
60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials
A Symposium
The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Lecture
Funded by the Leon and Toby Cooperman Fund
Co-sponsored by Rutgers' Schools of Law - Camden and Newark
and Rutgers' Department of History
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March 19 |
Israeli Authors Forum
In Hebrew
Speaker: Amir Gutfreund
Author of "Shoah Shelanu" - "Our Holocaust"
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Location: Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
RSVP by March 16
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March 21 |
An Evening of Music and Dialogue with
Composer Osvaldo Golijov
The Avram Matlofsky Memorial Program
Funded by the Karma Foundation
Co-sponsored by Mason Gross School of the Arts
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Location: Nicholas Music Center
Price: $10 general admission
Students free admission with student I.D.
Tickets available at the Mason Gross Box office 732-932-7511
or visit the website: www.masongross.rutgers.edu
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March 30 |
Performing the Black-Jewish Alliance:
Paul Robeson and His 'Hassidic Chant'
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April 27 |
Teaching in Times of Turmoil: Strategies of Survival,
Humanistic Education and Cultural Repair
The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Lecture
Speaker: Susan Handelman, Bar Ilan University
Time: 7:00 P.M.
Location: Scholarly Communication Center
Alexander Library
169 College Ave., New Brunswick
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Fall 2005 Events
September 19 |
Jewish and Buddhist Lenses on Ritual Practice
Funded in part by the Sagner Family Foundation
and presented in conjunction with
the Dalai Lama’s visit to Rutgers University
Jane Marie Law
Associate Professor,
Japanese Religions and Ritual Studies, Cornell University
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
100 George Street, New Brunswick
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November 6 |
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture
Meir Shalev
Renowned Israeli novelist
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
100 George Street, New Brunswick
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November 6 |
Israeli Authors Forum - In Hebrew
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Nov 10 -
November 20 |
SIXTH ANNUAL RUTGERS NEW JERSEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
The Regal Cinema Commerce Center
2399 Route 1 South, North Brunswick, NJ
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December 1 |
Violence and the Sacred: Religion and Politics
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy present
The Ruth Ellen Steinman Bloustein and Edward J. Bloustein Memorial Lecture
Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at the Hebrew University and a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Special Events Forum, Civic Square Building
33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick
(Free parking available behind building)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: Please RSVP by November 23 to Renee Dougé by phone, (732) 932-5475 x 638; or email, douge@rci.rutgers.edu. |
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Spring 2005 Events
| February 14
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"The Role of Jewish Women Activist Dance Artists during the 1930s and 1940s"
Artist-in-residence with the
Co-sponsored by the Bildner Center and the Rutgers Dance Department
Free and open to the public
Time: 2:50 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Location: Marryott Auditorium (2nd floor, not handicapped accessible)
In the Marryott Music Building adjacent to the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center on Douglass campus
For parking, call 732-932-7511.
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| February 15
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"Tales and Controversies:
An Evening of Sephardic Dance and Music"
Supported by the Sagner Family Foundation
Co-sponsored with Rutgers University Dance Department
Tickets available at the Mason Gross Box office 732-932-7511
Price: $8 general admission / Students free admission with student I.D.
Time: 8:00 p.m.
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| March 10
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"An Unsettling Past: American Jews during the Nazi Era"
The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Lecture
Time: 7:30 pm
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| March 31
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"The Passions Surrounding 'The Passion':
A Look Back at a Controversial Film"
The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Lecture
Supported by the Leon and Toby Cooperman Fund
Panel Discussion
Participants:
Jeff Sharlet, editor of the web magazine The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press
Moderator:
Time: 7:30 pm
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| May 10
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"How Tevye Learned to Fiddle"
The Avram Matlovsky Memorial Program
Supported by the Karma Foundation
Time: 7:30 p.m.
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Fall 2004 Events
| September 22
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"From Cosmopolitanism to Zionism:
Jewish Intellectuals and the Turn to Nationalism"
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture
Time: 7:30 pm
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| October 19
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Israeli Authors Forum
In Hebrew
Time: 7:30 pm
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| October 28
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"The Genesis of the Bible"
The Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History,
Rutgers
Time: 7:30 pm
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November 4 - November 14
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Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
The Regal Cinema, North Brunswick
Sponsored by The Karma Foundation
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| December 8
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"Memory, Countermemory, and the Meaning of Monuments after 9/11"
Location: Special Events Forum, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick
Time: 5:00 pm
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| December 9
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“Israeli Cinema and Cultural Transformation”
In Hebrew
Speaker: Na’ama Sheffi, Visiting Scholar, The Bildner Center, Rutgers Location: The Bildner Center, 12 College Avenue, New Brunswick
Time: 7:30 pm
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Spring 2004 Events
| February 15
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Images of Israel in American Jewish Literature
Supported by the Sagner Family Foundation
Speaker: Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel Aviv University
3:00 p.m., Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
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| February 23
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Jewish Youth Culture Following World War II:
Remaking American Judaism
Speaker: Riv Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota
5:30 p.m., Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
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| March 22
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Reflections on New Jersey Dreaming
Supported by The Karma Foundation
Speaker: Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University
7:30 p.m., Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
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| March 25
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A Discussion with Acclaimed Israeli Author
Savyon Liebrecht (in Hebrew)
7:30 p.m., The Bildner Center, 12 College Avenue
Seating is limited; please rsvp
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| May 16
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Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army:
Jewish Food and Memory on the Lower East Side
Speaker: Eve Jochnowitz, Rutgers University
10:00 a.m., Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
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Fall 2003 Events
| September
15 |
Israel
Between War and Peace
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture
Speaker: Shlomo
Avineri, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
7:30 p.m., Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center |
| October
22 |
"When Jews
Were GIs: How World War II Changed a Generation"
The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Lecture
Speaker: Deborah Dash Moore, Vassar College
7:30 p.m, Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center |
| November
6-16 |
Rutgers
New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
The Regal Cinema, North Brunswick
Sponsored by The Karma Foundation
Thursday,
Nov. 6
6:30 p.m. Monsieur Batignole (France)
Sunday, Nov. 9
12:00 p.m. Exodus (USA)
4:30 p.m. A Trumpet in the Wadi (Israel)
7:30 p.m. Gloomy Sunday (Germany)
Tuesday, Nov. 11
2:00 p.m. Monsieur Batignole (France)
7:00 p.m. Strange Fruit with The House I Live
In (USA)
Thursday, Nov. 13
2:00 p.m. Gloomy Sunday (Germany)
5:30 p.m. Exodus 1947 (USA)
7:30 p.m. Nobody's Business with The Sweetest
Sound (USA)
Sunday, Nov. 16
1:00 p.m. Exodus 1947 (USA) documentary
3:30 p.m. Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
7:00 p.m. A Trumpet in the Wadi (Israel) |
| November
16 |
Discussion in
Hebrew with Israeli author Sami Michael
Michael's works include A Trumpet in the Wadi
and Victoria
3:30 p.m.. Trayes Hall, Douglass College
Center
More information on Sami Michael's lecture.
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| December
3 |
Looking at Barbarity
in Modern Society
One day workshop for high school teachers
David Engel, New York University
Peter Nelson, Facing History and Ourselves
Fee: $35 (includes lunch & materials)
Wednesday, December 3, 8:45 am- 3:30 pm |
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"Moral
Judgement and Holocaust History:
Jewish-Nazi Collaboration on Trial"
The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Lecture
Supported by The Leon and Toby Cooperman Fund
Speaker: David Engel, New York University
7:30 p.m., Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center |
Spring 2003 Events
| February
20 |
Up
Against the Wall: Women's Legal Struggle to Pray
at the Western Wall
The Raoul Wallenberg
Annual Program funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman
Speaker: Pnina
Lahav, Boston University
7:30 p.m., Trayes Hall A&B, Douglass College
Center
Please RSVP by February 12 to
csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu
or call 732-932-2033. |
| March 3 |
Purim
in 1920s – 1930s Tel-Aviv: Carnival or Festival?
Speaker: Anat
Helman, Visiting Fellow, Bildner Center
7:30 PM, Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
Please RSVP by February 21 to
csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu
or call 732-932-2033. |
| March
12 |
From
the Urban Ghetto to the Suburbs:
The Reshaping of the American Jewish Landscape
The Matlofsky
Memorial Program sponsored by The Karma Foundation
Speaker: Jenna
Weissman Joselit, Princeton University
7:30 p.m., Trayes Hall A&B, Douglass College
Center
Please RSVP by March 4 to csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu
or call 732-932-2033.
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| March 23 |
Rediscovering
Jewish Eastern Europe
A slide/lecture
and musical presention by Jack
Kugelmass and Mark
Kligman
3:00-6:00 p.m., Trayes Hall A&B, Douglass
College Center
View
Event Flyer
Please RSVP by March 14 to csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu
or call 732-932-2033.
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| April 3 |
Historical
Reflections on Contemporary Antisemtism
Ruth Ellen Steinman Bloustein and Edward J. Bloustein
Memorial Lecture
Professor Steven J. Zipperstein, Stanford University
Thursday, April 3, 2003, 5:00 P.M.
Special Events Forum, Civic Square Building
33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick
A reception will follow the lecture.
Please RSVP by Monday, March
31 to csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu
or call 732-932-2033.
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| April
10 |
Jewish
Experience in the Catskills
Cosponsored with Rutgers’
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging
Research
Speaker: Phil Brown,
Brown University
4:30 PM, Brower Commons, Rooms A, B, C
Seating
for this lecture is now closed.
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| April 30 |
Community
Yom HaShoah Memorial Commemoration
Cosponsored by the Bildner Center and The Jewish
Federation of Greater Middlesex County
7:30 PM, Multipurpose Room, Rutgers Student Center
126 College Avenue, New Brunswick
The program will feature Inge
Auerbacher
All community members are invited.
A survivors’ processional will open the
program; Survivors are asked to arrive at 7:15
PM.
Click
here for directions and parking information.
For further information, contact the Federation
at 732-432-7711. |
Fall 2002 Events
| September
18 |
Sabbath
Pleasures in Medieval and Modern Times
Speaker: Elliott
Horowitz, Visiting Blanche and Irving Laurie
Chair, Bildner Center, Rutgers
7:30 p.m., Trayes Hall A&B, Douglass College
Center
RSVP by September 12 to 732-932-2033 or email to
csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu |
| October
6 |
PASSAGES:
Encounters with Jewish Writers
The program was made possible by a grant
from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities,
a state partner of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, and is supported in part by the Sagner
Family Foundation.
Renowned Jewish authors will address their movements
between cultural worlds and identies as revealed
in their writings. Authors include Norman
Manea, Ronit
Matalon, Jonathan
Rosen, Marjorie
Agosin, and Michal
Govrin. The program will include individual
presentations and a panel discussion.
2:00 p.m., Trayes Hall A & B, Douglass College
Center
RSVP by September 27 to 732-932-2033 or email to
csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu |
| October 8 |
One Voice in
Israel
A poetry
reading by Karen Alkalay-Gut.
Tuesday, October 8, 8:00 p.m.
The Bildner Center, 12 College Avenue, New Brunswick
For further information, call 732-932-2033
or email to csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu |
| October
22 |
The
Social History of the Bagel
The Inaugural Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Lecture
Speaker: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett,
Performance Studies and Hebrew and Judaic Studies,
New York University
7:30 p.m., Multipurpose Room, Cook Campus Center
RSVP by October 14 to 732-932-2033 or email to csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu |
| November
7-17 |
Jewish
Film Festival
Visit
this page for more information |
| November
19 |
Israel
in the Fifties: The Demographic Revolution
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture
Speaker: Dvora Hacohen,
The Norman and Syril Reitman Visiting Fellow, Bildner
Center, Rutgers
7:30 p.m., Multipurpose Room, Busch Campus Center
RSVP by November 11 to 732-932-2033 or email to
csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu
Click
here for directions to the Busch Campus Center |
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