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March 2019
Police in the Nazi Period and Now
The Jewish-Christian Studies Graduate Program is pleased to invite educators and other interested individuals to attend the professional Teachers Study Day, “Police in the Nazi Period and Now,” on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, from 9:00 am-3:00 pm at Seton Hall University. Our first speaker, Dr. Peter Black, will review the tragic history of police action in Europe of the Nazi period. The second speaker, Dr. Maria Haberfeld, will focus on police education in the United States and describe some of…
Find out more »Money Smart For Older Adults: How To Avoid Fraud & Scams
Financial exploitation has been called the “crime of the 21st century” with one study suggesting that older Americans lost at least $2.9 billion to financial exploitation in 2010 by a broad spectrum of perpetrators, including persons they know and trust, as well as strangers. Cognitive impairment diminishes the ability of some older adults to make financial decisions and to detect fraud and scams. This seminar is designed to provide you with information and tips to help prevent common frauds, scams…
Find out more »Yiddish heroes
A concert and lecture program, “Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews during World War II,” will be offered at 7:30 p.m. at Rutgers University’s Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick. The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program of Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for Jewish Studies will feature Psoy Korolenko, singer-songwriter; and Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies, University of Toronto. In the early 1940s, a group of Soviet Jewish scholars began…
Find out more »Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews during World War II
During the Holocaust, Jews from across the Soviet Union told their personal stories through Yiddish songs that are now part of a Grammy-nominated recording in the world music category. Preeminent Yiddish singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko teams up with Professor Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto) to bring these long lost songs to life in an all-new concert and lecture program.
Find out more »Bnai Keshet Rabbi Ariann Weitzman: A Mixed Multitude and a Singular People
As part of Union Baptist Church’s 2019 Interfaith, Ecumenical series of Sacred Studies: Race, Justice and Liberation, Bnai Keshet Rabbi Ariann Weitzman reflects on the "mixed multitude" that went out from Egypt; she interrogates assumptions of homogeneity in our communities and the truths and fictions around belonging. Free and open to all. For more information, call 973-746-4889 or visit www.bnaikeshet.org.
Find out more »“70 Reasons for Hope”
Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, South Orange, 7 p.m. Guest speaker is Amit Stern, shaliach for Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ. Register at tsti.org/calendar/israel-programs-2.
Find out more »“History through Text” Congregational Learning Series
Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Clifford Kulwin explores “Art and the Jewish Renaissance.” Register at tbanj.org or call 973-994-2290.
Find out more »“A Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein”
JCC MetroWest, West Orange, 7:30 p.m. Author Jamie Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein’s oldest daughter, will talk about her father and his musical legacy. A dessert reception follows. Cost is $18, $12 members. RSVP to kstrulson@jccmetrowest.org.
Find out more »Scholar in Residence: the Myth and Reality of Judaism
Rabbi Ron Isaacs leads discussions distinguishing authentic Jewish teaching and practices from the many popular misconceptions that even knowledgeable and literate Jews and others believe. Our weekend features a dinner, short talk during morning services and a Havdala party and discussion. Event cost is $15 per adult, or $36 family.
Find out more »“Jews of Color … My Family”
Temple Beth Am, Parsippany, 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Steven M. Mills Speaker Series with Rabbi Victor Appell. Call 973-887-0046.
Find out more »Shabbat Speaker Series at Temple Shalom
Dr. Jeffrey Miskoff will speak at Temple Shalom’s service on Friday, March 15th as part of it Shabbat Speaker Series. Dr. Miskoff specializes in pulmonary medicine, sleep medicine and critical care. He is affiliated with Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Ocean Medical Center. His topic will be Sleep Apnea and Breathing Disorders. Temple Shalom services begin at 7:45 pm. Temple Shalom is located at 5 Ayrmont Lane in Aberdeen. If you have any questions, contact Ed Miller at speshuled1215@optonline.net.
Find out more »The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen: Redemption
Azzan Yadin-Israel, Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University will return to Shomrei for the second in a series of three encore lectures. Yadin-Israel spent two years mining Springsteen songs for his book, The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen, unearthing numerous biblical themes and reinterpretations of passages from his lyrics. More than passing references to “sin” and “salvation,” “redemption” and metaphorical “promised lands,” the book explores a definitive theological arc that spans Springsteen’s…
Find out more »“Thinking About Whiteness”
“Thinking About Whiteness: The Spectacular and the Banal, Our Struggles and Our Obligations in an Era of Rising White Nationalisms” Bnai Keshet, Montclair, 10:30 a.m. Speaker is scholar-activist Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Women’s Studies, and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Call 973-746-4889.
Find out more »Meet the author
Adam Valen Levinson, author of “The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah,” will be the next speaker in the “Meet the Author” series at 11 a.m. at Congregation Torat El, Oakhurst. Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, the author set out to “learn about the world 9/11 made us fear.” From a base in Abu Dhabi, he lunches in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, travels under the watchful eye of Aleppo’s secret police, and risks shipwreck en route to Somalia. Valen…
Find out more »Ancient Jewish graffiti
A lecture, “Jewish Graffiti in the Ancient World,” will be presented by archeologist and Brooklyn College Professor Karen Stern at Congregation B’nai Israel in Rumson at 11:15 a.m. Stern, author of “Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity,” will discuss her recent discoveries of tomb, theater, and synagogue inscriptions that provide intriguing insights into Jewish life under Roman domination. This program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. RSVP to Emilie Kovit-Meyer…
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