TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Director of the Bennett Center ..................... 1

Fall 2011 - Spring 2012, Highlights and Events ................ 2

Kabbalat Shabbat Services ....... 5

Focus on Faculty ........................ 5

Lunch & Learn Honorees ............ 6

Looking Ahead ............................ 6

Course Offerings – Fall 2012 ...... 6

A Year in the Making .................. 7

Honor Roll, July 2011 - June 2012 ................. 8

Judaic Studies Faculty & Friends ....................... 8

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From the Director of the Bennett Center

Another terrific year for the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies! Thanks to a recent

gift from Carl Bennett, we also began to move in new and exciting directions, including some related to the Arts. In October, in celebration of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days, we brought to campus Jewish male a cappella group, Six13, whose memorable performance of Hebrew and English songs was preceded by a few musical numbers from Fairfield University’s male a cappella group, The Bensonians. In the spirit of the Daniel Pearl Music Days, meant to emphasize the unifying power of music, the Bensonians joined Six13 on stage to end the concert with a special rendition of Matisyahu’s “One Fine Day.” In March, the Bennett Center hosted its first staged reading of a play: Jason Mitchell’s The Red Box, a riveting story of gay Holocaust survivors that focuses not on the hardships of the war but rather on the strength and beauty of love.

Throughout the academic year, we worked with Rev. George Collins, S.J., coordinator of the Office of Mission and Identity (and as of July 1, the director of Campus Ministry), and Rabbi Suri Krieger, in holding monthly Kabbalat Shabbat services and dinners that attracted a good number of Jewish and non-Jewish University members. My thanks to Fr. Collins and Rabbi Krieger, as well as the staff of the Bennett Center: Elaine Bowman, Caroline Carrier, Laura Stakey, and Meg Collins, plus Gavriel Rosenfeld, Paul Lakeland, Philip Eliasoph, Elyse Raby, Meg McCaffrey, Nina Riccio, Ed Ross, Michael Doody, Paul Fitzgerald, and Robbin Crabtree of Fairfield University. My gratitiude to Cheryl Podob of the Bridgeport/Fairfield Young Emissaries’ Program along with this year’s wonderful Israeli emissaries, Avital Goshen and Rotem Prag; Steve Wendell and UJA/Federation of Eastern Fairfield County for co-sponsoring “Lunch and Learn” and Rabbi Jim Prosnit of Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport for hosting this year’s clergy luncheon with our Scholar-in-Residence, Steven M. Cohen. A final note of thanks to our many donors for making possible all that the Bennett Center has accomplished.

Lastly, my best wishes to Dr. Orin Grossman, who is retiring after 37 years of service to the University. I will miss having him as a colleague but look forward to many more years of friendship.

~ Ellen M. Umansky, Ph.D.

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A PUBLICATION OF THE CARL & DOROTHY BENNETT CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES AT FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY

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Dr. Umansky receives the Distinguished Faculty Award from University President Jeffrey von Arx, S.J.

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Fall 2011 – Spring 2012

September 8 Interfaith Service in Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 – The Bennett Center co-sponsored a service and candle lighting ceremony with the University’s Office of Mission and Identity and the Center for Catholic Studies. The featured speaker was Fred Kuo, associate director of University Activities, who shared his own personal story.

September 21 & 22 Annual Judaic Studies Scholar in Residence – Dr. Steven M. Cohen, research professor of Jewish Social Policy at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion and director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at New York University, Wagner. Dr. Cohen spent two days on campus meeting with members of the University and general community. His presentations included: • “Comparing Identity Patterns

Between Generations” A study session with Ellen Umansky’s Introduction to Judaism undergraduate class of 30 students.

• “Changing Patterns of Jewish Identity in the U.S. Today” A public lecture, which attracted over 200 students and individuals from the University and general communities.

• “Negotiating the Boundaries: The Contested Contours of Jews and Judaism in the U.S.A.” Jewish Forum discussion, attended by 16 faculty and staff.

• “Israel’s Strategic Challenges and American Jewry” A luncheon discussion hosted by Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport. Twenty Jewish clergy and community leaders participated.

* The annual Judaic Studies Scholar in Residence program is made possible by a gift from David and Edith Chaifetz of Fairfield.

September 26 Jewish New Year Get-Together – Faculty, staff, and students gathered in the Bennett Center to welcome the Jewish Year 5772. Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld, director of the University’s Judaic Studies program, presented a brief explanation of Rosh Hashanah, and everyone enjoyed tasting apples dipped in honey and other foods symbolizing the hope for a sweet and happy new year.

October 4 “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” Dr. Timothy Snyder of Yale University presented an impressive talk which delved into the history of German and Russian policy and actions in Europe between 1933-1945. This event, which attracted over 150 people, was presented by the undergraduate Judaic Studies Program and the Bennett Center.

October 12-20 Sukkot Experience – For the eleventh consecutive year, members of KADIMA (Fairfield’s undergraduate Jewish cultural organization) and

students from Dr. Umansky’s classes erected a sukkah on the plaza between Donnarumma and Canisius Halls. Throughout the week, members of the University community enjoyed having lunch and holding classes in the sukkah.

October 24 “St. Ignatius, Jesuits, Spirituality, and Art” – Professor Ori Soltes, curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C. and Goldman Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University, presented a lecture as part of the University’s week-long exploration of Fairfield’s Ignatian Heritage. The Bennett Center was a co-sponsor of Dr. Soltes’ presentation.

October 26 In celebration of Daniel Pearl World Music Days, “Six 13: A Night of Pop-Rock Jewish A Cappella” – Fueled by a strong, Jewish identity and anchored by beat box arrangements and dramatic harmonies, this six-man vocal band brought an unprecedented style of Jewish music to the stage. The group performed before a full house of 600 people, who delighted in its energetic performance.

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Members of Six13 delight a packed audience at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

Steven M. Cohen (center) with Edith and David Chaifetz.

November 7 The Fourteenth Annual Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture – Co-founder and co-director of The Innocence Project and professor at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Barry Scheck addressed an audience of over 600 in Fairfield’s Quick Center on “DNA Evidence and the Saving of Human Lives.” Attorney Scheck sparked a great deal of thought as he related stories of individuals who, wrongfully, had been convicted of crimes and, with DNA testing, had been found innocent. The annual Jacoby-Lunin lecture is underwritten by the Frank Jacoby Foundation in collaboration with the Bennett Center and Fairfield’s Open VISIONS Forum. November 8 Class trip to The Jewish Museum, NYC – Augmenting their classroom learning, twenty-six students in Dr. Umansky’s “History of the Jewish Experience” class enjoyed having lunch at a kosher delicatessen in Riverdale, NY and, afterwards, touring the Museum with trained docents.

November 16 “The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & A Rescue from Nazi Germany” – Teacher, lecturer, former director of Jewish Religious Education at Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT, Robert H. Gillette launched his book (The History Press, 2011) and spoke at the newly opened Fairfield University Bookstore in downtown Fairfield.

Seventy-five people heard this master storyteller relate the fascinating story of the plan to save dozens of young Jewish students from Gross Breesen Institute, an agricultural science school in Nazi Germany. The Bennett Center extends a special thank you to Rabbi Arnold Sher, who helped make this event possible.

November 17 The 2011 Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture in Judaic Studies “Beyond the Battlefield: Jews and the Civil War” – In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, assistant professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, gave a presentation on the important, non-military roles Jews played within the Union and the Confederacy, as well as the effects of the war on the position of Jews within greater American society from that time forward. One hundred fifty audience members attended this lecture, which was sponsored by the Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation.

December 12 KADIMA Chanukah Party – Members of KADIMA organized and hosted a gathering for over 30 students in McCormick Residential Hall. Everyone enjoyed playing dreidle and eating potato latkahs (pancakes) and sufganiyot (doughnuts).

February 16 “Peddlers and Modern Jewish Migration” – Award-winning New York University Professor Hasia R. Diner addressed an audience of over 150 as she defined the role that peddlers and itinerant merchants played in the exodus of Jews from Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Dr. Diner explained how these Jews led the way for the influx of Jewish merchants and manufacturers into the American clothing industry.

March 1 Fifth Annual Lecture in Jewish-Christian Engagement “Opening the Covenant: a Jewish Theology of Christianity” – One hundred fifty people gathered to hear Dr. Michael S. Kogan, professor of Religion at Montclair State University, present a liberating, pluralistic vision of Jews and Christians as divine witnesses called upon in different ways to build the earthly Kingdom of God. This lecture was co-sponsored by the Bennett Center and Fairfield University’s Center for Catholic Studies.

March 22 A staged reading of The Red Box by Jason Mitchell in the Quick Center’s Wien Experimental Theater drew a full house of 120 people. This drama explores the rarely discussed subject of homosexual persecution during the Holocaust. An on-stage discussion with the playwright followed the reading.

April 2 Passover Seder – Forty students, faculty, and staff enjoyed this year’s “model” Seder, led by Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld. Everyone present enjoyed sampling some traditional Passover foods and Dr. Rosenfeld’s explanations of the Seder.

April 16 Carl and Dorothy Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies “Israel: Threatened from Inside and Out…” – In the afternoon, Martin Fletcher, author, and former NBC News Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau Chief, met with a

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Jason Mitchell and cast members of The Red Box.

Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecturer Barry Scheck (center) with David and Deborah Zieff.

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select group of undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in televi-sion journalism. In his public lecture that evening Mr. Fletcher analyzed problems Israel faces from Iran and other Arab states as well as Europe, and gave an over-view of Israel’s internal conflicts, which he feels may pose the greatest threat to the country’s long-term survival. Over 700 members of the University and gen-eral communities attended this event, which was funded by a gift from Carl Bennett of Greenwich, Conn.

April 17 Class Trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage – In conjunction with their “Faith after the Holocaust” class, 30 of Dr. Umansky’s students toured the museum and met Holocaust survivor Bronia Brandman, who shared her personal story with the group.

April 23 Annual Holocaust Commemoration – More than 60 members of the University and general

communities gathered for a service and candle lighting ceremony led by students, faculty, and staff. Our guest speaker was Mr. Sol Rosenkranz, a survivor of Buchenwald, Treblinka, and other Nazi camps, who told his personal story of heroism.

April 24 Faculty Forum Tzahal Shalom – Three active-duty officers in the Israeli Defense Forces spoke to members of the University faculty, providing anecdotes about their training and combat. The soldiers came to Fairfield as part of the Stamford Jewish Community Center’s Tzahal Shalom program and also met with students in Ellen Umansky’s “Introduction to Judaism” and Maureen Dewan’s “Introduction to Religious Studies” class.

April 10 Friends of the Bennett Center Donor Reception – In recognition of individuals, institutions, and foundations that have made a minimum contribution of $100 to the Bennett Center this past year, the Center hosted a delightful afternoon of socializing, refreshments, and entertainment. A very big thank you to Rabbi Suri Krieger for her generosity in contributing an outstanding musical and vocal performance, which was accompanied by Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz.

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Rabbi Suri Krieger, who led our monthly Kabbalat Shabbat services and entertained at this year’s Donor Reception (left), with Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz.

The recipient of the 2011-2012 Congregation B’nai Israel Academic Achievement Award was graduating senior and Judaic Studies minor, Niles Muzyk. A native of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Niles majored in psychology and, in addition to Judaic Studies, minored in Asian Studies and computer science. At the College of Arts and Sciences’ annual awards ceremony in the spring, Niles received not only the B’nai Israel Academic Achievement Award but also the student awards in Psychology and Asian Studies. He was elected into Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and in the spring of 2012 was inducted into Theta Alpha Kappa, the Religious Studies Honor Society. This fall, Niles will begin study towards a doctorate in psychology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Ellen Umansky (left) presenting Meg McCaffrey with the Bennett Center’s Special Recognition Awardat this year’s Donor Reception.

Martin Fletcher (second from left) with Gavriel Rosenfeld, director of the undergraduate program in Judaic Studies, (far left); Carl Bennett; Ellen Umansky; and Fairfield University President Jeffrey von Arx, S.J.

Holocaust survivor and speaker, Sol Rosenkranz (left) with fellow survivor, Harry Weichsel.

Niles Muzyk ’12 with Dr. Umansky.

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Focus on Faculty

Kabbalat Shabbat ServicesAs part of the effort to celebrate all faiths on campus, the Center for Judaic Studies continued to work in conjunction with Rev. George Collins, S.J. of the Office of Mission and Identity, and Rabbi James Prosnit, senior rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel, to offer a monthly Shabbat service and dinner for students, faculty, and staff. An average of 45 people attended each service.

Rabbi Suri Krieger, spiritual leader of Congregation ‘Teferet Yehuda v’Yisrael in Kerhonkson, NY and Chvurah Beth Chai of Westchester, NY, led participants in spirited musical selections and prayer. The Bennett Center extends its appreciation to Rabbi Krieger and to Rabbi Danny Price for substituting for Rabbi Krieger at the April service.

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Behre, who was selected to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholars Seminar in Mystic, Conn., this July. The seminar focused on “The American Maritime People,” and this experience will provide an opportunity for Dr. Behre to broaden her ongoing research project on the first Jewish residents of Louisiana, who were Sephardic merchants with contacts in various ports throughout the Americas.

In March, Dr. Philip Eliasoph was invited to speak to the “Art Affinity Group” at San Francisco’s Temple Emanu El, a national historic landmark synagogue in the Presidio. This was the second time that Dr. Eliasoph has spoken about Jewish artists and themes for the Shabbat service at the Temple, which was founded by the Levi-Strauss family in 1849.

In November, Dr. Orin Grossman gave a lecture to the Port Washington (LI) Friends of the Library, “George Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue.” In February, he was a featured lecturer at One-Day University in New York City, where he spoke on “Jewish Americans and the Great American Song-book.” The following month, he lectured on “Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein – a Friendship in Music” and performed, once again, for the Port Washington Friends.

Dr. Angela Harkins’ book, Reading with an “I” to the Heavens: Looking at the Qumran Hodayot through the Lens of Visionary Traditions, was published in June by Dr. Gruyter Publishers, Berlin.

In addition, Dr. Harkins was a co-editor of a collection published in 2012 titled, A Teacher for all Generations: Essays in Honor of James Machiela (Leiden; Boston: Brill).

She also had an essay published in the collection titled, “Who is the Teacher of the Teacher Hymns? Re-examining the Teacher Hymns Hypothesis Fifty Years Later.”

Congratulations to Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld, whose book, Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and Jewish Memory Since the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2011) was as a finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award in visual arts, and a finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in Architecture. His article, “Between Uniqueness and Universalization: Holocaust Memory at the Dialectical Crossroads,” appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust.

Last October, Dr. Ellen Umansky was inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society. In April, she received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Fairfield University Alumni Association. This past year, her publications included the article “Paula Ackerman: Pioneer in the Pulpit,” (Southern Jewish History, 14 2011); a chapter on “Women in Jewish Life” in An Anthology of Living Religions (M.P. Fisher and L.W. Bailey, Eds. 2012); and the “Foreword” in Healing in the Jewish Tradition: Concept and Process in Jewish Science (Steven J. Kaplan, 2011).

Judaic Studies undergraduate classes continue to be as popular as ever! A total of 402 undergraduate students took Judaic Studies classes throughout the 2011 - 2012 academic school year.

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Looking AheadFor complete details, visit our website at www.fairfield.edu/judaicstudies

L U N C H & L E A R N

Announcing Lunch and Learn for 2013

Forty three adults met with Ellen Umansky for ten sessions to study Jewish Visionaries: (Re)imagining the Present and Future. Participants who have completed five or more years of Lunch and Learn this year.

“Movers and Shakers: Men and Women Who Made a Difference in American Jewish Life”

This 10-week course in the winter/spring of 2013 will focus on a number of men and women who had a significant impact on American Jewish history. Discussions of religious, cultural, philanthropic, and defense organizations and their creators; educational movements; Zionist leadership, and attempts by rabbis and laypeople to regenerate Jewish religious life will be included.

Class dates, times, and fees will be announced in the late fall. Contact the Bennett Center after September 3 if you are interested in receiving a Lunch and Learn registration form in November.

17 years: Elaine Bowman Yvonne Waynik

16 years: Bernice W. Barkin Millie Garrell

15 years: Alice Madwed Bernice Resnick Deborah Zuckerman

13 years :Beth Gold Shirley Goldstone Susan Kalman Edith Katzen Joan Rosenbaum Hinda M. Wolf

11 years: Florence R. Josem Alan K. Nudelman George Ruderman

Lisbeth Ruderman Charlotte Sachs Pearl Zucker

10 years: Harriette Hirsh

9 years: Niema Hirsh Jeanne Siff

8 years: Lee Starr

7 years: Ruth Madwed Claire Shumofsky

6 years: Franny Jones

5 years: Marilyn Furmansky Phyllis Holt Lois Schwartzman Helen Wasserman

Judaic Studies Undergraduate

Course Offerings - Fall 2012ART HISTORYArt & Mythologies of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Bolshevik Russia – Dr. Philip Eliasoph

ENGLISHLiterature of the Holocaust – Prof. Gail Ostrow

HEBREWElementary Hebrew – Prof. Gilda Vogel

Intermediate Hebrew – Professor Judith Lerner

HISTORYModern Jewish History – Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld

RELIGIOUS STUDIESIntroduction to Judaism – Dr. Ellen Umansky

Jews and Judaism in America – Dr. Ellen Umansky

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament – Dr. Angela Harkins

Jewish Interpretations of Scriptures – Rabbi James Prosnit

People of the Book / Sacred Texts – Dr. Angela Harkins

Common Questions / Traditional Responses – Prof. Maureen Dewan

Oct. 11 – Scholar in Residence Lecture – Dr. Alan Cooper, Jewish Theological Seminary:“Do Jews Believe in Original Sin?”

Oct. 22 – Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture – Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett:“Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews”

Oct. 25 – Concert – “Abraham Inc”: A unique blend of klezmer and funk. Presented in celebration of the annual Daniel Pearl Music Days – Co-sponsored with the Regina Quick Center for the Arts.

Nov. 5 – Lecture in Jewish-Christian Engagement – Dr. Paula Fredriksen, Boston University – “When Christians Were Jews” Co-sponsored with the Center for Catholic Studies.

Nov. 12 – The Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture – Kati Marton, author and human rights activist – “Human Rights: Free Press and Democracy”

Nov. 29 – Lecture – Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University – “When General Grant Expelled the Jews”

Feb. 21 – Lecture – Dr. Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University – “Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball” – Co-sponsored with the Judaic Studies and Black Studies Programs

March 4 – Samuel and Bettie Roberts Memorial Lecture in Jewish Art – Audrey Flack, photorealist painter, and sculptor – “Facing Jewish Identity Through Images, Style, Color, and Content.”

March 19 – Theater – The Visitor – a staged reading of the play by Carol K. Mack – Directed by Martha LoMonaco – Co-sponsored with the American Studies Program.

April 4 – Carl and Dorothy Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies – Mayor Ed Koch – “I’m Not Done Yet: Remaining Relevant.”

April 10 – Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service – Co-sponsored with Campus Ministry and KADIMA – speaker, Alan Bell, son of Aron Bielski Bell, subject of the film, Defiance.

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DONOR HONOR ROLL…

Golden Benefactors: $100,000 - $150,000 Carl Bennett

Special Benefactors: $55,000 - $99,000 Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation

Special Sponors: $15,000 - $34,000 Frank Jacoby Foundation

Sponsors: $5,000 - $14,999 David and Edith Chaifetz

Patron: $1,000 + David & Edith Chaifetz (In honor of the outstanding contributions of Dr. Ellen Umansky)Richard & Carol Jacobson Henry and Joan Katz Fund Albert Kleban Norman & Kathy Solomon Mark and Yvonne Waynik

Friend: $500 +UJA/Federation of Eastern Fairfield County

Supporter: $200 + Richard & Shirley Becker Lewis Berman & Nancy Rennert Jonathan & Elaine Bowman Peter & Cindy Burnim David Ellenson & Jacqueline Koch Joel & Susan Lichtenstein Alice Madwed Gerald Rosenberg Ellen Umansky (In memory of Diane Feigenson)David and Deborah Zieff

BENNETT CENTER DIRECTOREllen M. Umansky, Ph.D. Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies: Modern Jewish History and Thought, Women’s Spirituality

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTORGavriel Rosenfeld, Ph.D. Professor of History: Modern European History, Modern Germany, Modern Jewish History, The Holocaust

ASSOCIATED FACULTYPatricia Behre, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History: Early Modern France,Medieval Europe

Cecelia Bucki, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History: Labor and Immigration

Philip Eliasoph, Ph.D.Professor of Visual and Performing Arts; American Arts Society: Italian Renaissance Civilization, Media and Propaganda in 20th Century Europe

Orin L. Grossman, Ph.D.Professor of Visual and Performing Arts

July 2011 – June 2012

The Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies was founded in 1993 by a gift from Carl and the late Dorothy Bennett of Greenwich, Conn.

We wish to thank the following donors for their generous support of the Bennett Center and the Judaic Studies Program from July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012:

Angela K. Harkins, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Religious Studies: Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism – including the Dead Sea Scrolls

ADJUNCT FACULTY Maureen Dewan, M.A., J.D.Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies: Jewish History, Women in Judaism

Rabbi James Prosnit, M.A.Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies: Classic Rabbinic Texts, Jewish Liturgy

Judith Lerner, M.A.Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages: Hebrew Language

BENNETT CENTER STAFFElaine F. BowmanProgram Manager

Caroline Carrier Program Assistant

Laura Stakey ’14 Work-study assistant

Megan Collins ’12Work-study assistant

JUDAIC STUDIES FACULTY & STAFF

Carl and Dorothy Bennett

Help Judaic Studies offer student activities, host special lectures and events, and purchase relevant books, tapes, and DVDs for the DiMenna-Nyselius Library and the Bennett Center’s collection.

* To attend the annual Friends of the Bennett Center Donor Reception, a mini-mum gift of $100 per person is required. Invitations will be mailed in the early spring of 2013.

** Gifts to Judaic Studies are tax-deductible.

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Gifts in Kind :Thank you to the following people:

Rabbi Suri Krieger – for providing a delightful performance at our donor reception on May 6.

Martin Chasen – for the donation of 829 books to the Bennett Center and the DiMenna-Nyselius Library’s Judaic collection.

Stephen Loewentheil - for lending a number of original photographs to the DiMenna-Nyselius Library for its exhibit on the Civil War.

Tema Nemtzow - for the gift of a miniature Torah.

Congregation Beth El - for providing memorial candles for this year’s Holocaust Commemoration Service.