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Sunday, August 18, 2024

Register Today for Fall Programs!

 

 

Join Us for Upcoming Public Programs

 

September 18, 1:00 p.m. (Virtual)

Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum

Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University, speaks about his new book on a pioneering effort in 1940s New York to build a museum to memorialize the Jewish cultures of Eastern Europe destroyed during the Holocaust.

 


 

September 24, 7:30 p.m.

Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy

Jonathan Marc Gribetz, Princeton University, discusses his new book on why the Palestine Liberation Organization invested in research about Judaism and Zionism and how the knowledge it acquired informed its relationship to Israel.

 


 

October 9, Noon (Virtual)

One Year after October 7: A Conversation with Miriam Herschlag

Join a discussion between Miriam Herschlag, opinion and blogs editor for The Times of Israel, and Nancy Sinkoff, the Bildner Center’s academic director, one year after the October 7 attack on Israel.

 


 

 


 

December 3, 10, & 17; 7:00 p.m. 

Online Mini-Course

The End of the World

Jenny R. Labendz, Bildner Visiting Scholar, will compare and contrast Jewish and Christian ideas about the end of the world, challenging widespread assumptions.