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Articles In the News 2012

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New Jersey Jewish News
5/7/2012 — Alvin Rockoff was remembered April 22 as a man devoted to his family, the Jewish community, and all things Rutgers. Speaking at a lecture series he helped establish, university leaders described a philanthropist with the ability to listen, counsel, and lead and whose determination helped set a course for what became Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. Rockoff, a businessman and Rutgers alumnus, died Oct. 27 at age 84.
RU Focus
Rutgers Master's in Jewish Studies Student Treads Unconventional Career Path
1/30/2012 — Gosnell's return coincided with the launch of the new master's program in the Department of Jewish Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. The M.A. curriculum offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present.
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Rutgers Focus
Teaching Yiddish gets Modern Spin at Rutgers
12/06/2011 — Three times each week, a handful of Rutgers students come to play their part in keeping alive a language that was supposed to have become extinct generations ago, but stubbornly refuses to die.
Forward
An Alter-ed Perspective on the Bible
12/02/2011 — Robert Alter sees problems in translations, stating "broadly speaking, one may say that in the case of the modern versions, the problem is a shaky sense of English and in the case of the King James Version, a shaky sense of Hebrew."

New Jersey Jewish News
11/28/2011 — Israeli filmmaker Ronit Kertsner’s documentary Torn tells the dilemma of a man who found out about his Jewish heritage 12 years after becoming a Catholic priest and came to Israel to study the religion of his biological parents.

New Jersey Jewish News
Rutgers Event Links Hatred of Jews and Muslims
10/21/2011 — A program on stereotypical portrayals of Jews and Muslims drew an unusually diverse crowd “Going Viral: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Role of the Media,” which featured an Arab-American academic and a Jewish specialist on anti-Semitism.

Rutgers Focus
For Rutgers Interns, a Chance to Learn and Convey History’s Impact
10/14/2011 — The Lipper Internship Program sends college students like Weiner and Burzichelli into schools throughout the northeast United States with a message of tolerance and co-existence.

New Jersey Jewish News
9/21/2011 — A week after the 10th anniversary of 9/11, architect Daniel Libeskind told a Rutgers audience how his master plan for the former World Trade Center site and his design for the Jewish Museum Berlin aimed to fill the voids left by the almost unimaginable loss of life.
Targum
Daniel Libeskind, master planner of the Ground Zero Memorial, and James Young, professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, came together to discuss architecture as a civil art in public spaces.
New Jersey Jewish News
3/28/2011 — Prof. Eddy Portnoy, an instructor of Yiddish language and literature at Rutgers University and an expert on cartoons in the Yiddish press, and Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor at The New Yorker, examine how Jewish messages and imagery have changed since the late 19 century.
Rutgers Today
4/1/2011 — Humor in the early editorial cartoons during the formative years of the Yiddish press in the late 19th and early 20th century, also was meant to stimulate thought, but it was far from subtle, according to Portnoy.
New Jersey Jewish News
3/23/2011 — Responding to student demand, Rutgers University will next year inaugurate the state’s first master’s degree program in Jewish studies.
New Jersey Jewish News
3/23/2011 — Dr. Jonathan Gribetz will join the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University as an assistant professor.
Rutgers Today
3/10/2011 — Department of Jewish Studies offers the only program in New Jersey that confers a bachelor’s and now a master's degree in this area of academic study.
Rutgers Today
2/22/2011 — No topic has been as personally jarring as the suffering of the Romanis, a nomadic people also known as Gypsies, during the Holocaust.
Targum
1/31/2011 — There are three major obstacles on the road to conflict resolution and reconciliation, and ultimately to a better future for all parties involved: The desire to win, the need to be vindicated and the quest for retribution. While being rooted in intrinsic human urges and needs, they are irrevocably futile and counter-productive. All three impediments are flagrantly exposed in the mounting tensions around BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice group's activities on campus and the reactions they invoke. Unfortunately, instead of dialogue and understanding, animosity and misconstruction rule while ineffective means and bad counsel defeat good intentions.
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New Jersey Jewish News
12/13/2010 — Heilman coauthored, with Menachem Friedman, The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson. On Dec. 8 he spoke to large audience on the Douglass College campus
New Jersey Jewish News
11/15/2010 — At 99, a journalist recalls a life fighting injustice
The Jewish State
Local teachers complete Bildner Center's Holocaust education program
05/21/2010 — Teachers learned from prominent Holocaust scholars as part of the second class of the Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education.
The Jewish State
In Rutgers Arab-Israeli conflict class, students simulate Middle East negotiations
04/30/2010  — Professor Muli Peleg teaches conflict resolution.

Articles in the News 2009

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The Jewish State:
Bildner event reviews the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin
11/27/2009  — The work of Dr. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi shows a divided Israeli society through the ways Rabin was memorialized.

Rutgers Focus:
The December Dilemma
12/14/2009  — “The spirit of Christmas is ‘goodwill for everyone,’ ” Professor Jeffrey Shandler said. “It’s hard to argue with that. Who wouldn’t want goodwill for everybody? “But how can you engage with that spirit on your own terms when there are theological and cultural complications?”

New Jersey Newsroom:10/27/2009  —  Filmmakers, expert speakers, performers, television episodes and a film short supplement the features, helping make this year's event larger and "more celebratory," said center associate director Karen Small, who also runs the festival.

Rutgers Focus:
Q&A with Michael Levine, professor of German at Rutgers
10/23/09 —"And Along Come Tourists" is a small, poignant, behind-the-scenes look at what Auschwitz has become for tourists, guides, and, in this case, even a Polish survivor who remains there after liberation.

The Jewish State:
Wolf discusses myths and facts of 'hidden children'
10/9/2009 —In her research, Diane Wolf interviewed almost 70 individuals who were hidden children in Holland during the Holocaust.

The Jewish State:
Rutgers prof explores 'breadth and richness of Yiddish culture'
10/9/2009 —Eddy Portnoy's Yiddish career began when he was an inquisitive teenager, peppering his grandmother with questions on the language. His journey with the mame loshn has since brought him to the Rutgers University faculty and the pages of academic and popular publications.

New Jersey Jewish News:
05/12/09 —‘Voyage to nowhere’ remains touchstone in refugee debate

New Jersey Jewish News:
Scholar: Europe’s Right is embracing its Jews
03/31/09 —Old hatreds fading as nationalists turn anger on Muslims

New Jersey Jewish News:
Historian's Talk Highlights Role of Jewish Women
03/03/09—“It is impossible to understand American Jewish history or the history of America without understanding the impact of Jewish women,” said Dr. Melissa Klapper during her talk at Trayes Hall on the Douglass campus in New Brunswick.

NJ.com:
Local Teachers Train at Master Teacher Institute
02/05/09—Local teachers train in Holocaust studies, creating educational programs for their schools and districts, such as teacher education programs or "Tolerance Day."

Articles in the News 2008

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New Jersey Jewish News:
On Becoming a Jewish Novelist
12/16/08—Award-winning author Dara Horn discusses history, inspiration, obstacles.

New Jersey Jewish News:
Rutgers Dean asks why gentiles rescued Jews
11/06/08—Lecturer examines neighbors’ behavior during the Holocaust.

Home News Tribune:
Festival aims to inspire dialogue on Jewish life
11/06/08—The ninth annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival features a provocative mix of documentaries and features from across the globe.

New Jersey Jewish News:
Salita and Foreman:  A Renaissance for Jewish Boxing?
10/30/08—Foreman and Salita are more than just boxers: they follow an Orthodox-Jewish lifestyle that includes observing kashrut and refraining from participating in their livelihood on Shabbat...Boxing historian and author Mike Silver sees them as throwbacks to a time when tough Jews were a constant presence in the squared circle, a period from the early 1900s to the late 1940s.

New Jersey Jewish News:
Expert urges joint effort to 'green' Middle East
10/21/08—Dr. Arie Nesher, professional director of the Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University, said shrinking natural resources will harm both sides unless jointly addressed.

New Jersey Jewish News:
Diversity Training Held in Slain Reporter's Name
10/21/08—At a diversity workshop held Oct. 16 at Temple B’nai Shalom, teachers heard lectures, shared ideas, and viewed a documentary about a coffee cooperative in Uganda farmed by Christians, Muslims, and Jews.  The Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center was one of the sponsors of this program.

New Jersey Jewish News:
Progress in Christian Jewish Ties
10/07/08—Christian relations with Jews have undergone a dramatic positive change since the middle of the last century, spurred by reaction to the Holocaust, the creation of Israel, and evolving church attitudes.  Still, the relationship remains complicated, with attitudes varying among the different denominations of Christianity and Judaism and Jews unsure how to respond as respected equals after many centuries of Christian persecution. These topics were explored in a program with an interfaith dinner and presentations by two clergy, a priest and a rabbi, engaged in interfaith affairs.

New Jersey Jewish News:
Expert charts military's weight Israeli society
09/18/08—Yoram Peri, head of the Rothschild Caesarea School of Communication and the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society at Tel Aviv University, explored the new turn in “Israeli Politics: the Military and Civil Society."

New Jersey Jewish News:
08/07/08—Two articles about the Jewish Studies Online courses: one about the courses themselves, the other about the generous donors, Gene and Adele Hoffman

New Jersey Jewish News:
05/29/08—Two visiting Israeli professors, Meir Buzaglo and Roni Stauber, presented an overview of the metamorphosis of relationships between Israel and Jews of the Diaspora — from the early days of the state when the Holocaust and Jewish life outside Israel were downplayed to the current acceptance of Jewish history and diversity.
Rutgers Focus:
03/27/08—People from all over the world are taking classes in Rutgers' Department of Jewish Studies. And they are doing it from the comfort of their own homes, without having to register for class, pay tuition, or even provide their names.
New Jersey Jewish News:
03/13/08—Comic caricatures and cartoons in the Yiddish press were pivotal in helping masses of Jewish immigrants to address political and social concerns and adjust to life in America. Edward Portnoy — speaking March 4 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where he will be teaching Yiddish language and literature next semester — said the images were "enormously important" as tools for furthering assimilation.

Articles in the News 2007

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New Jersey Jewish News:
12/06/07—New Jersey's Jewish federations are teaming with Rutgers University in a five-month series of Jewish leadership seminars."The forum is an opportunity to see how the Jewish community in New Jersey is moving and changing, where the emphasis should be," said Bildner associate director Karen Small, who is coordinating the leadership think tank. "We're looking at it being not so much about specific issues but as a forum where the leadership of the federations can come together to strategize."
New Jersey Jewish News:
11/15/07—Paola Tartakoff will open a window at Rutgers into medieval Jewish life.
New York Times:
10/17/07—The audience gathered for a panel discussion, "Yiddish Is Alive and Well and Living in New York," that traced the language's rich history and future prospects. Prof. Jeffrey Shandler moderated the panel, which was presented as part of an exhibition, "The Jewish Daily Forward: Embracing an Immigrant Community."
Courier News:
10/14/07—Central Jersey's large, strong and diverse Jewish community not only want to see films that reflect their world but also discuss them, said Jeffrey Shandler, an associate professor of Jewish studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. "The films are from all over the world, but the discussion is local. You could go anywhere else to see these films or rent them, but to be part of an experience where you hear what is on people's hearts and minds makes these events stand out."
Rutgers Focus:
04/25/07—The recipients of the five Human Dignity Awards include Allen and Joan Bildner for an extraordinary commitment to developing programs that further justice, equality, and diversity at a variety of institutions. Yael Zerubavel accepted the award on their behalf.
Courier News:
03/15/07—Long before Oprah Winfrey learned of her lineage to an African tribe, filmmakers Pearl Gluck and Marian Marzynski traced their Jewish roots from America to Hungary and Poland in the documentaries "Divan" and "Shtetl." The conference will compare the influence of Jewish Eastern European culture on language and literature, theatre and film, and food traditions and religious practice in Israeli and American Jewish cultures. It will bring together renowned scholars from Israel and the United States and will feature four Rutgers Jewish studies faculty members.

Articles in the News 2006

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New Jersey Jewish News:
09/21/06—The New Jersey couple who founded and helped finance Rutgers University’s Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life were honored for their achievements as the center celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sept. 17.
Rutgers Media Relations:
10/10/06—A drama about an Ethiopian boy attempting to make a new life in Israel and a tale of German-Jewish relations revealed through a get-rich-quick scheme devised by two Israeli car dealers, are highlights of the seventh annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.
Rutgers University Libraries:
06/01/06 —In 2006, with the assistance of World History Librarian Jim Niessen, Rutgers College graduate David Salem donated a full 73 volume set of the Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, published by the Jewish book publisher ArtScroll, to the Rutgers University Libraries.
New Jersey Jewish News:
05/25/06 —Professor Jeffrey Shandler discusses translating Emil and Karl by Yankev Glatshteyn and speaks about the future of the mameloshn.
The Daily Targum:
03/21/06 — As an adolescent, Amir Gutfreund realized his many grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins were a makeshift family of Holocaust survivors, which his parents - both Holocaust survivors - created in an attempt to form a community, despite the mass murder of their relatives.
Rutgers University News:
02/06 — A symposium on the 60th anniversary of the first international effort to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and an evening program of music and dialogue with Osvaldo Golijov, a noted composer whose works are profoundly changing the world of classical music, will open the spring season of public programming offered by the Bildner Center.

Articles in the News 2005

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The Daily Targum:

11/11/05 — The sixth annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, presents screenings with commentary by each film's directors, or noted experts in other aspects of the Jewish experience.

 

Home News Tribune:

11/8/05 — The Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival maintains a scholarly bent, presenting "issue"-oriented fare confronting topics such as gender, suicide bombers and the Holocaust. "We try to show films that reflect the Jewish experience," says Karen Small, associate director of the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

9/6/05 — Rutgers University’s Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life presented a lecture on Jewish and Buddhist Lenses on Ritual Practice by Jane Marie Law, associate professor of Japanese religions and ritual studies at Cornell University, in connection with the Sept. 25 appearance of the Dalai Lama at Rutgers.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

9/6/05 — Rutgers University’s Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life has launched New Jersey’s first Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education. Funded through the center’s Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center, the institute is designed to offer middle school and high school teachers an in-depth understanding of the Holocaust and its impact on today’s world.

 

The Jewish State:

6/10/05 — New Jersey high school students reflect on their European trips to study the Holocaust at a Bildner Center gathering.

 

The Jewish State:

6/10/05 — Eighteen Rutgers students, majoring and minoring in Jewish Studies, were recognized at an awards ceremony May 3 for their academic achievements.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

5/5/05 — Professor Azzan Yadin teaches Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah at Rutgers.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

5/5/05 — Two Douglass College women - one Jewish, with an Israeli/American heritage, the other Arab Christian, of Moroccan descent - have joined hands in an initiative to harness the power of women to promote Arab/Jewish peace.

 

The Daily Targum:

4/29/05 — The Middle East Coexistence Project at Rutgers featured two speakers that addressed the importance and possibility of cooperation between the various cultures located in the region.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

4/28/05 — From Museums to Comic Books: Images of the Holocaust in the Public Sphere, a two-part series of workshops on the Holocaust for high school teachers, was sponsored by the Bildner Center and its Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center, with additional funding from Dr. Theodore and Eva Stahl of Highland Park.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

4/7/05 — A panel discussion, "The Passions Surrounding The Passion: A Look Back at a Controversial Film", was sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.

 

Articles in the News 2004

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The Daily Targum:

10/15/2004 — Gary Rendsburg, a renowned Jewish scholar, was inaugurated at Kirkpatrick Chapel as the Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History in the department of Jewish studies.

 

Rutgers University Newsletter

10/11/2004 — World-Renowned Biblical Scholar Gary A. Rendsburg to Hold the First Endowed Chair in Rutgers’ Rapidly Growing Department of Jewish Studies

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

6/24/04 — Professor Gary Rendsburg, the university's first Blanche and Irving Laurie Professor of Jewish History and newly appointed chair of the Department of Jewish Studies, speaks about his new position and his approach to biblical study.

 

New Jersey Jewish News:

3/4/04 — The Mandel Fellows Conference, a continuing education gathering for master teachers of the Holocaust, meets at Rutgers University.

 

The Daily Targum:

3/2/04 — New Jersey elementary school teachers attended a workshop for teaching about the Holocaust held by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life.

 

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