FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY

Summer 2012

annual newsletter VOLUME SEVENTEEN • NUMBER ONE

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS From the Director of the Bennett Center From the Director of the Bennett Center...... 1 Throughout the academic year, we worked with Rev. George Collins, S.J., coordinator of the Office of Mission and Fall 2011 - Spring 2012, Identity (and as of July 1, the director Highlights and Events...... 2 of Campus Ministry), and Rabbi Suri Krieger, in holding monthly Kabbalat Kabbalat Shabbat Services ...... 5 Shabbat services and dinners that attracted a good number of Jewish and non-Jewish Focus on Faculty...... 5 University members. My thanks to Fr. Collins and Rabbi Krieger, as well as Lunch & Learn Honorees...... 6 the staff of the Bennett Center: Elaine Bowman, Caroline Carrier, Laura Stakey, Looking Ahead...... 6 and Meg Collins, plus Gavriel Rosenfeld, Dr. Umansky receives the Distinguished Faculty Award from Paul Lakeland, Philip Eliasoph, Elyse University President Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. Raby, Meg McCaffrey, Nina Riccio, Ed Course Offerings – Fall 2012...... 6 nother terrific year for the Carl Ross, Michael Doody, Paul Fitzgerald, and Robbin Crabtree of Fairfield University. A Year in the Making...... 7 and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies! Thanks to a recent My gratitiude to Cheryl Podob of the A Bridgeport/Fairfield Young Emissaries’ gift from Carl Bennett, we also began Honor Roll, to move in new and exciting directions, Program along with this year’s wonderful July 2011 - June 2012...... 8 including some related to the Arts. In Israeli emissaries, Avital Goshen and October, in celebration of the Daniel Pearl Rotem Prag; Steve Wendell and UJA/ Judaic Studies World Music Days, we brought to campus Federation of Eastern Fairfield County Faculty & Friends...... 8 Jewish male a cappella group, Six13, whose for co-sponsoring “Lunch and Learn” and memorable performance of Hebrew and Rabbi Jim Prosnit of Congregation B’nai English songs was preceded by a few Israel in Bridgeport for hosting this year’s musical numbers from Fairfield University’s clergy luncheon with our Scholar-in- male a cappella group, The Bensonians. In Residence, Steven M. Cohen. A final note the spirit of the Daniel Pearl Music Days, of thanks to our many donors for making meant to emphasize the unifying power possible all that the Bennett Center has of music, the Bensonians joined Six13 on accomplished. stage to end the concert with a special Lastly, my best wishes to Dr. Orin rendition of Matisyahu’s “One Fine Day.” Grossman, who is retiring after 37 years of In March, the Bennett Center hosted service to the University. I will miss having its first staged reading of a play: Jason him as a colleague but look forward to Mitchell’s The Red Box, a riveting story of many more years of friendship. gay Holocaust survivors that focuses not on the hardships of the war but rather on ~ Ellen M. Umansky, Ph.D. the strength and beauty of love.

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September 8 Interfaith Service • “Negotiating the Boundaries: The students from Dr. Umansky’s classes in Commemoration of the 10th Contested Contours of Jews and erected a sukkah on the plaza between Anniversary of 9/11 – The Bennett Judaism in the U.S.A.” Donnarumma and Canisius Halls. Center co-sponsored a service and Jewish Forum discussion, attended by Throughout the week, members of the candle lighting ceremony with the 16 faculty and staff. University community enjoyed having lunch and holding classes in the sukkah. University’s Office of Mission and • “Israel’s Strategic Challenges and Identity and the Center for Catholic American Jewry” A luncheon discussion hosted Studies. The featured speaker was October 24 “St. Ignatius, Jesuits, by Congregation B’nai Israel in Fred Kuo, associate director of Spirituality, and Art” – Professor Bridgeport. Twenty Jewish clergy and University Activities, who shared Ori Soltes, curator of the B’nai B’rith community leaders participated. his own personal story. Klutznick National Jewish Museum, * The annual Judaic Studies Scholar in Residence Washington, D.C. and Goldman program is made possible by a gift from David and Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Edith Chaifetz of Fairfield. Fine Arts, Georgetown University, presented a lecture as part of the September 26 Jewish New Year University’s week-long exploration Get-Together – Faculty, staff, and of Fairfield’s Ignatian Heritage. The students gathered in the Bennett Bennett Center was a co-sponsor of Dr. Center to welcome the Jewish Year Soltes’ presentation. 5772. Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld, director Steven M. Cohen (center) with Edith and David of the University’s Judaic Studies October 26 In celebration of Chaifetz. program, presented a brief explanation Daniel Pearl World Music Days, of Rosh Hashanah, and everyone “Six 13: A Night of Pop-Rock September 21 & 22 Annual enjoyed tasting apples dipped in honey and other foods symbolizing the hope Jewish A Cappella” – Judaic Studies Scholar in for a sweet and happy new year. Fueled by a strong, Jewish identity and Residence – Dr. Steven M. Cohen, anchored by beat box arrangements research professor of Jewish Social and dramatic harmonies, this six-man Policy at Hebrew Union College October 4 “Bloodlands: Europe vocal band brought an unprecedented – Jewish Institute of Religion and Between Hitler and Stalin” Dr. style of Jewish music to the stage. The director of the Berman Jewish Policy Timothy Snyder of Yale University group performed before a full house Archive at New York University, presented an impressive talk which of 600 people, who delighted in its Wagner. Dr. Cohen spent two days on delved into the history of German energetic performance. campus meeting with members of the and Russian policy and actions in University and general community. His Europe between 1933-1945. This event, presentations included: which attracted over 150 people, was • “Comparing Identity Patterns presented by the undergraduate Judaic Between Generations” Studies Program and the Bennett A study session with Ellen Center. Umansky’s Introduction to Judaism undergraduate class of 30 students. • “Changing Patterns of Jewish October 12-20 Sukkot Identity in the U.S. Today” Experience – For the eleventh Members of Six13 delight a packed audience at the A public lecture, which attracted over consecutive year, members of Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. 200 students and individuals from the KADIMA (Fairfield’s undergraduate University and general communities. Jewish cultural organization) and

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Seventy-five people heard this master March 1 Fifth Annual Lecture in storyteller relate the fascinating story Jewish-Christian Engagement of the plan to save dozens of young “Opening the Covenant: a Jewish Jewish students from Gross Breesen Institute, an agricultural science school Theology of Christianity” – in Nazi Germany. The Bennett Center One hundred fifty people gathered extends a special thank you to Rabbi to hear Dr. Michael S. Kogan, Arnold Sher, who helped make this professor of Religion at Montclair event possible. State University, present a liberating, Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecturer Barry Scheck pluralistic vision of Jews and Christians (center) with David and Deborah Zieff. as divine witnesses called upon in November 17 The 2011 Adolph different ways to build the earthly November 7 The Fourteenth and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture Kingdom of God. This lecture was Annual Jacoby-Lunin in Judaic Studies “Beyond co-sponsored by the Bennett Center Humanitarian Lecture – the Battlefield: Jews and the and Fairfield University’s Center for Co-founder and co-director of The Catholic Studies. Civil War” – In recognition of Innocence Project and professor at the 150th anniversary of the Civil the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, War, Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, Barry Scheck addressed an audience assistant professor of Jewish Studies of over 600 in Fairfield’s Quick Center at the College of Charleston, gave a on “DNA Evidence and the Saving presentation on the important, non- of Human Lives.” Attorney Scheck military roles Jews played within the sparked a great deal of thought as Union and the Confederacy, as well as he related stories of individuals who, the effects of the war on the position wrongfully, had been convicted of of Jews within greater American crimes and, with DNA testing, had society from that time forward. One Jason Mitchell and cast members of The Red Box. been found innocent. The annual hundred fifty audience members Jacoby-Lunin lecture is underwritten attended this lecture, which was March 22 A staged reading of The sponsored by the Adolph and Ruth by the Frank Jacoby Foundation in Red Box by Jason Mitchell in the Schnurmacher Foundation. collaboration with the Bennett Center Quick Center’s Wien Experimental and Fairfield’s Open VISIONS Forum. Theater drew a full house of 120 December 12 KADIMA Chanukah people. This drama explores the rarely November 8 Class trip to Party – Members of KADIMA discussed subject of homosexual The Jewish Museum, NYC – organized and hosted a gathering persecution during the Holocaust. Augmenting their classroom learning, for over 30 students in McCormick An on-stage discussion with the twenty-six students in Dr. Umansky’s Residential Hall. Everyone enjoyed playwright followed the reading. “History of the Jewish Experience” playing dreidle and eating potato class enjoyed having lunch at a kosher latkahs (pancakes) and sufganiyot April 2 Passover Seder – Forty delicatessen in Riverdale, NY and, (doughnuts). students, faculty, and staff enjoyed afterwards, touring the Museum with this year’s “model” Seder, led by Dr. trained docents. February 16 “Peddlers and Gavriel Rosenfeld. Everyone present Modern Jewish Migration” – enjoyed sampling some traditional November 16 “The Virginia Plan: Award-winning New York University Passover foods and Dr. Rosenfeld’s explanations of the Seder. William B. Thalhimer & A Rescue Professor Hasia R. Diner addressed an audience of over 150 as she defined from Nazi Germany” – Teacher, the role that peddlers and itinerant April 16 Carl and Dorothy lecturer, former director of Jewish merchants played in the exodus of Jews Religious Education at Congregation Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies from Europe and the Ottoman Empire. B’nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT, Robert “Israel: Threatened from Inside Dr. Diner explained how these Jews H. Gillette launched his book (The and Out…” – In the afternoon, led the way for the influx of Jewish History Press, 2011) and spoke at the Martin Fletcher, author, and former merchants and manufacturers into the newly opened Fairfield University NBC News Middle East correspondent American clothing industry. Bookstore in downtown Fairfield. and Tel Aviv Bureau Chief, met with a

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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.

Martin Fletcher (second from left) with Gavriel April 24 Faculty Forum Tzahal Dr. Ellen Umansky (left) presenting Meg McCaffrey Rosenfeld, director of the undergraduate program Shalom – Three active-duty officers with the Bennett Center’s Special Recognition Award in Judaic Studies, (far left); Carl Bennett; Ellen in the Israeli Defense Forces spoke at this year’s Donor Reception. Umansky; and Fairfield University President Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. to members of the University faculty, providing anecdotes about their training select group of undergraduate students and combat. The soldiers came to interested in pursuing careers in televi- Fairfield as part of the Stamford Jewish Student Spotlight... sion journalism. In his public lecture that Community Center’s Tzahal Shalom evening Mr. Fletcher analyzed problems program and also met with students Israel faces from Iran and other Arab in Ellen Umansky’s “Introduction states as well as Europe, and gave an over- to Judaism” and Maureen Dewan’s view of Israel’s internal conflicts, which “Introduction to Religious Studies” class. 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. Niles Muzyk ’12 with Dr. Umansky. The recipient of the 2011-2012 April 17 Class Trip to the Museum Congregation B’nai Israel Academic of Jewish Heritage – In conjunction Achievement Award was graduating with their “Faith after the Holocaust” Rabbi Suri Krieger, who led our monthly Kabbalat senior and Judaic Studies minor, Niles class, 30 of Dr. Umansky’s students Shabbat services and entertained at this year’s Donor Reception (left), with Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz. Muzyk. A native of Ridgewood, New toured the museum and met Holocaust Jersey, Niles majored in psychology survivor Bronia Brandman, who shared April 10 Friends of the Bennett and, in addition to Judaic Studies, her personal story with the group. Center Donor Reception – In minored in Asian Studies and recognition of individuals, institutions, computer science. At the College of and foundations that have made a Arts and Sciences’ annual awards minimum contribution of $100 to ceremony in the spring, Niles received the Bennett Center this past year, the not only the B’nai Israel Academic Center hosted a delightful afternoon Achievement Award but also the of socializing, refreshments, and student awards in Psychology and entertainment. A very big thank you to Asian Studies. He was elected into Rabbi Suri Krieger for her generosity Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and in contributing an outstanding musical in the spring of 2012 was inducted Holocaust survivor and speaker, Sol Rosenkranz (left) and vocal performance, which was with fellow survivor, Harry Weichsel. into Theta Alpha Kappa, the Religious accompanied by Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz. Studies Honor Society. This fall, Niles April 23 Annual Holocaust will begin study towards a doctorate in psychology at George Washington Commemoration – More than 60 members of the University and general University in Washington, D.C.

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Kabbalat Shabbat Services

As part of the effort to celebrate all faiths on campus, the Rabbi Suri Krieger, spiritual leader of Congregation ‘Teferet Center for Judaic Studies continued to work in conjunction Yehuda v’Yisrael in Kerhonkson, NY and Chvurah Beth with Rev. George Collins, S.J. of the Office of Mission Chai of Westchester, NY, led participants in spirited musical and Identity, and Rabbi James Prosnit, senior rabbi of selections and prayer. The Bennett Center extends its Congregation B’nai Israel, to offer a monthly Shabbat service appreciation to Rabbi Krieger and to Rabbi Danny Price for and dinner for students, faculty, and staff. An average of 45 substituting for Rabbi Krieger at the April service. people attended each service.

Focus on Faculty

Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Behre, who was selected to She also had an essay published in the collection titled, participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities “Who is the Teacher of the Teacher Hymns? Re-examining Summer Scholars Seminar in Mystic, Conn., this July. The the Teacher Hymns Hypothesis Fifty Years Later.” seminar focused on “The American Maritime People,” and Congratulations to Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld, whose book, this experience will provide an opportunity for Dr. Behre to Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and Jewish broaden her ongoing research project on the first Jewish Memory Since the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2011) residents of Louisiana, who were Sephardic merchants was as a finalist for the 2011 National Jewish Book Award with contacts in various ports throughout the Americas. in visual arts, and a finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of In March, Dr. Philip Eliasoph was invited to speak to the the Year in Architecture. His article, “Between Uniqueness “Art Affinity Group” at San Francisco’s Temple Emanu El, a and Universalization: Holocaust Memory at the Dialectical national historic landmark synagogue in the Presidio. This Crossroads,” appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Dapim: was the second time that Dr. Eliasoph has spoken about Studies on the Holocaust. Jewish artists and themes for the Shabbat service at the Last October, Dr. Ellen Umansky was inducted into Temple, which was founded by the Levi-Strauss family Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society. In April, she in 1849. received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the In November, Dr. Orin Grossman gave a lecture to the Port Fairfield University Alumni Association. This past year, Washington (LI) Friends of the Library, “George Gershwin her publications included the article “Paula Ackerman: and Rhapsody in Blue.” In February, he was a featured Pioneer in the Pulpit,” (Southern Jewish History, 14 2011); lecturer at One-Day University in New York City, where a chapter on “Women in Jewish Life” in An Anthology of he spoke on “Jewish Americans and the Great American Living Religions (M.P. Fisher and L.W. Bailey, Eds. 2012); Song-book.” The following month, he lectured on “Aaron and the “Foreword” in Healing in the Jewish Tradition: Copland and Leonard Bernstein – a Friendship in Music” Concept and Process in Jewish Science (Steven J. and performed, once again, for the Port Washington Kaplan, 2011). 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. It’s a fact Gruyter Publishers, Berlin. Judaic Studies undergraduate classes continue to be as In addition, Dr. Harkins was a co-editor of a collection popular as ever! A total of 402 undergraduate students published in 2012 titled, A Teacher for all Generations: took Judaic Studies classes throughout the 2011 - 2012 Essays in Honor of James Machiela (Leiden; Boston: Brill). academic school year.

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Forty three adults met with Ellen Umansky For complete details, visit our website at www.fairfield.edu/judaicstudies for ten sessions to study Jewish Visionaries: Oct. 11 – Scholar in Residence Feb. 21 – Lecture – Dr. Rebecca T. (Re)imagining the Present and Future. Lecture – Dr. Alan Cooper, Jewish Alpert, Temple University – Participants who have completed five or Theological Seminary:“Do Jews “Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball” – more years of Lunch and Learn this year. Believe in Original Sin?” Co-sponsored with the Judaic Studies and 17 years: Lisbeth Ruderman Black Studies Programs Elaine Bowman Charlotte Sachs Oct. 22 – Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture – Barbara March 4 – Samuel and Bettie Roberts Yvonne Waynik Pearl Zucker Memorial Lecture in Jewish Art – Kirshenblatt Gimblett:“Rising from the 16 years: 10 years: Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Audrey Flack, photorealist painter, “Facing Jewish Identity Bernice W. Barkin Harriette Hirsh Polish Jews” and sculptor – Millie Garrell Through Images, Style, Color, and Content.” 9 years: Oct. 25 – Concert – “Abraham Inc”: 15 years: Niema Hirsh A unique blend of klezmer and funk. March 19 – Theater – The Visitor – a Alice Madwed Jeanne Siff Presented in celebration of the annual staged reading of the play by Carol K. Bernice Resnick Daniel Pearl Music Days – Co-sponsored Mack – Directed by Martha LoMonaco 8 years: Co-sponsored with the American Studies Deborah Zuckerman with the Regina Quick Center for the Arts. – Lee Starr Program. 13 years : Nov. 5 – Lecture in Jewish-Christian Beth Gold 7 years: April 4 – Carl and Dorothy Bennett Shirley Goldstone Ruth Madwed Engagement – Dr. Paula Fredriksen, Lecture in Judaic Studies – Susan Kalman Claire Shumofsky Boston University – “When Christians Mayor Ed Koch – Were Jews” Co-sponsored with the Center Edith Katzen 6 years: “I’m Not Done Yet: Remaining Relevant.” Joan Rosenbaum Franny Jones for Catholic Studies. Hinda M. Wolf April 10 – Annual Holocaust 5 years: Nov. 12 – The Jacoby-Lunin Remembrance Service – Co-sponsored 11 years: Marilyn Furmansky Humanitarian Lecture – Kati Marton, with Campus Ministry and KADIMA – Florence R. Josem Phyllis Holt author and human rights activist – speaker, Alan Bell, son of Aron Bielski Bell, Alan K. Nudelman Lois Schwartzman “Human Rights: Free Press and Democracy” subject of the film, Defiance. George Ruderman Helen Wasserman Nov. 29 – Lecture – Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University – “When General Grant Expelled the Jews” Announcing Lunch and Learn for 2013 Judaic Studies Undergraduate “Movers and Shakers: Men and Women Who Made a Difference in American Jewish Life” Course Offerings - Fall 2012 This 10-week course in the winter/spring of 2013 will focus on a number of men and ART HISTORY RELIGIOUS STUDIES Art & Mythologies of Nazi Germany, Introduction to Judaism – Dr. Ellen Umansky women who had a significant impact on Fascist Italy, Bolshevik Russia – Jews and Judaism in America – American Jewish history. Discussions of Dr. Philip Eliasoph religious, cultural, philanthropic, and defense Dr. Ellen Umansky organizations and their creators; educational ENGLISH Hebrew Bible/Old Testament – Literature of the Holocaust – movements; Zionist leadership, and attempts Dr. Angela Harkins Prof. Gail Ostrow by rabbis and laypeople to regenerate Jewish Jewish Interpretations of Scriptures religious life will be included. HEBREW – Rabbi James Prosnit Elementary Hebrew – People of the Book / Sacred Texts – Class dates, times, and fees will be Prof. Gilda Vogel announced in the late fall. Contact the Dr. Angela Harkins Intermediate Hebrew – Bennett Center after September 3 if you are Common Questions / Traditional Responses Professor Judith Lerner interested in receiving a Lunch and Learn – Prof. Maureen Dewan registration form in November. HISTORY Modern Jewish History – Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld

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A Year in the Making…

Judaic Studies Undergraduate Course Offerings - Fall 2012

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DONOR HONOR ROLL… JUDAIC STUDIES FACULTY & STAFF

July 2011 – June 2012 BENNETT CENTER DIRECTOR Angela K. Harkins, Ph.D. Ellen M. Umansky, Ph.D. Associate Professor of The Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center Carl and Dorothy Bennett Religious Studies: for Judaic Studies was founded in Professor of Judaic Studies: Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism 1993 by a gift from Carl and the late Modern Jewish History and Thought, – including the Dead Sea Scrolls Dorothy Bennett of Greenwich, Conn. Women’s Spirituality ADJUNCT FACULTY We wish to thank the following UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM Maureen Dewan, M.A., J.D. donors for their generous support of DIRECTOR Lecturer, Department of the Bennett Center and the Judaic Gavriel Rosenfeld, Ph.D. Religious Studies: Studies Program from July 1, 2011 – Professor of History: Jewish History, Women in Judaism Modern European History, Modern June 30, 2012: Carl and Dorothy Bennett Rabbi James Prosnit, M.A. Germany, Modern Jewish History, Lecturer, Department of The Holocaust Religious Studies: Golden Benefactors: Contributor: up to $199 ASSOCIATED FACULTY Classic Rabbinic Texts, Jewish Liturgy $100,000 - $150,000 James & Barbara Abraham Patricia Behre, Ph.D. Judith Lerner, M.A. Carl Bennett Marc Bennett & Kathryn Meyers Associate Professor of History: Lecturer, Department of Modern Richard & Dorothy Blank Early Modern France, Special Benefactors: Languages: Dorothy Blaustein Medieval Europe $55,000 - $99,000 Rhoda & David Chase Family Hebrew Language Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation Cecelia Bucki, Ph.D. Foundation Congregation Agudath Sholom, Associate Professor of History: BENNETT CENTER STAFF Special Sponors: Stamford Labor and Immigration Elaine F. Bowman Selig & Juliet Danzig Program Manager $15,000 - $34,000 Leonard & Phyllis Feinberg Philip Eliasoph, Ph.D. Frank Jacoby Foundation Caroline Carrier Mitchell & Judith Greenberg Professor of Visual and Performing Program Assistant Sponsors: $5,000 - $14,999 Judith D. Guthman Arts; American Arts Society: Italian Renaissance Civilization, David and Edith Chaifetz Lawrence & Sharon Handler Laura Stakey ’14 Harriette Hirsch Media and Propaganda in 20th Patron: $1,000 + Work-study assistant Elizabeth Hohl (In memory Century Europe David & Edith Chaifetz (In honor of of Diane Feigenson) Megan Collins ’12 the outstanding contributions Orin L. Grossman, Ph.D. Joanne Janesky Work-study assistant of Dr. Ellen Umansky) Professor of Visual and Edie Katzen Richard & Carol Jacobson Performing Arts Sara H. Klein Henry and Joan Katz Fund Kreinik & Co., LLC Albert Kleban Ilse Levi Norman & Kathy Solomon Alice Madwed (In honor of Mark and Yvonne Waynik Ellen Umansky) Friend: $500 + Ruth Madwed (In honor of Friends of The Bennett Center UJA/Federation of Eastern Ellen Umansky) Fairfield County Muriel Mann George and Christine Markle Help Judaic Studies offer student activities, host special lectures and events, Supporter: $200 + Linda S. Murray and purchase relevant books, tapes, and DVDs for the DiMenna-Nyselius Library Richard & Shirley Becker Judge Alan & Janet Nevas and the Bennett Center’s collection. Lewis Berman & Nancy Rennert Joan Rosenbaum Jonathan & Elaine Bowman Golden Benefactor………$100,000+ Patron...... $1,000+ Harold & Anita Rosnick Peter & Cindy Burnim George & Lisbeth Ruderman Special Benefactor………..$55,000+ Friend...... $500+ David Ellenson & Jacqueline Koch (In honor of Ellen Umansky) Benefactor...... $35,000+ Supporter...... $200+ Joel & Susan Lichtenstein Diane Schwartz Special Sponsor...... $15,000+ Contributor...... up to $199 Alice Madwed Helen B. Wasserman (In honor of Sponsor...... $5,000+ Gerald Rosenberg Ellen Umansky) Ellen Umansky (In memory of Frances Weiss * To attend the annual Friends of the Bennett Center Donor Reception, a mini- Diane Feigenson) Austin & Ellen Wolf mum gift of $100 per person is required. Invitations will be mailed in the early David and Deborah Zieff Dr. Alfred & Royce Wolfson spring of 2013. Wallace & Deborah Zuckerman ** Gifts to Judaic Studies are tax-deductible. Gifts in Kind : Thank you to the following people: Name______Rabbi Suri Krieger – for providing a delightful performance at our donor Address______reception on May 6. Phone number (______)______E-mail______Martin Chasen – for the donation of 829 books to the Bennett Center and the DiMenna-Nyselius Library’s Judaic collection. Amount enclosed $______

Stephen Loewentheil - for lending a number of original photographs to Make checks payable to The Bennett Center, Fairfield University and send to: the DiMenna-Nyselius Library for its exhibit on the Civil War. Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, DMH 245, Fairfield University, 1073 North Tema Nemtzow - for the gift of a miniature Torah. Benson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824 Congregation Beth El - for providing memorial candles for this year’s Holocaust Commemoration Service. Designed and printed by Fairfield University Design & Digital Print Services.

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