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“How Do You Think? A Jewish & Scientific Exploration of Consciousness” will be presented on Tuesday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. at The Jewish Center, Princeton. Panelists are Rabbi Daniel Nevins, the Pearl Resnick Dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbinical School; and Michael S.A. Graziano, Ph.D., professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University. The program costs $10 for non-members. Contact 609-921-0100, ext. 200, or info@thejewishcenter.org.

Steve Stein will present “Observing the 7th Commandment: Were Your Family Members Telling the Truth to the Government? And Other Inaccuracies,” a program of the Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey’s American Jewish Experience Lecture Series, on Tuesday, May 14, at 10 a.m. at Jewish Family Services of Middlesex County, Monroe Township. Stein has been researching his own and his wife’s genealogies for more than 40 years. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Jewish Genealogical Society,…

Prizewinning Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, will discuss the future relationship between American Jews and Israel. In his 2013 book, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present. His new book, Letters…

Co-Sponsored by Jewish Center Women Presented by Tanya Zion-Waldoks, a gender scholar, feminist activist and mother of four – intertwined callings. Her research examines intersections of religion, gender, and politics, with a focus on women’s social movements. Currently a post-doctoral Rothschild fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion, Tanya will join the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Education in 2019. Her current project is a comparative study of religious feminisms in Israel. In…

“Women’s Struggles for Equality in a Jewish and Democratic Israel” will be presented on Thursdays, May 16, 23, and 30, at 7:30 p.m. at The Jewish Center, Princeton. The mini-course will be presented by Tanya Zion-Waldoks, a post-doctoral Rothschild fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion who will join the faculty of Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Education in 2019. Her current project is a comparative study of religious feminisms in Israel. Cost is $72, $54…

Temple Beth Am, Parsippany, 7 p.m. The 31st annual Joseph Gotthelf Holocaust Memorial Lecture will follow Shabbat services. Ernest Mathias, whose family sought refuge in Shanghai in 1938, will comment on the film. Call 973-887-0046.

B’nai Shalom, West Orange, 1 p.m. Rabbi Robert Tobin will examine two scientific rationalists of the Middle Ages, Rabbis Moshe Ben Maimon and Levi Ben Gershon. Call 973-731-0160.