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In this issue
2 Judaic Studies Lectures
North American Jewish
Data Bank
Moments in Center Time
3 M.A. Program in Judaic Studies
4 Meet Some of Our Graduate
Students
Meet Our Directors
5 Great Gratitude to Doris and
Simon Konover
6 Holocaust Commemoration
Donors and Supporters
7 Donors and Supporters
8 Dedicated Committees
Founded in 1979, the Center for
Judaic Studies and Contemporary
Jewish Life is the oldest formally
recognized Judaic Studies Program
at a university in Connecticut.
The Center is dedicated to
academic research and teaching,
as well as public service and
community outreach. Much
has been accomplished at the
Center, and a short timeline is
provided on the following page.
To commemorate the Center’s
25th Anniversary, I. Martin and
Janet M. Fierberg, Doris and
Simon Konover, Gene and
Georgia Mittelman, Judy and
Henry Zachs and the UConn
Research Foundation generously
sponsored a series of lectures,
“Assessing 350 Years of American
Jewish Life: 1654-2004.” This
“semi-septcentennial” recalls
that, in 1654, “23 souls, big as
well as little,” according to court
records of that time (September
7, 1654) stepped off a boat in
then New Amsterdam, which
would become New York ten
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DIRECTOR’S NOTE: From Arnold Dashefsky
A Generation of Judaic Studies
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, home of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary
Jewish Life, Archives and Special Collections and the Human Rights Institute.
years later. The immigrants were
from Recife, Brazil, and traveled
to New Amsterdam because they
no longer felt secure when the
Portuguese took control of the
country from the Dutch. When
they arrived, the Dutch governor
of New Amsterdam, Peter
Stuyvesant, the son of a Protestant
minister, faced a serious problem.
If he accepted the Jews, then he
could not deny “the Lutherans
and Papists” (Catholics).
Fortunately, for New York and
indeed ultimately the entire
United States, the Jews were
permitted to remain and later,
Protestants, Catholics, and many
other religious groups came
as well. In this way, we may
note that the arrival of the Jews
paved the way for the kind of
religious pluralism we value in
American society.
By the way, a similar story was
played out in Connecticut, but it
took nearly 200 more years for
religious pluralism to emerge in
this state. Jews in Hartford and
New Haven were only allowed to
worship publicly in a synagogue
in the early 1840’s and this
opened up the possibilities for
Catholics and other religious
groups thereafter. But that is
another story for another time.
All that we have accomplished
at the Center for Judaic Studies
and Contemporary Jewish Life in
the past generation is the result
of a collaborative effort on the
part of faculty and students
working with the administration,
alumni and friends to advance
Judaic Studies at the University
of Connecticut. Now into our
second generation, we greet
our readers with our all new
newsletter highlighting recent
events for our diverse group of
students (both undergraduate
and graduate), faculty, alumni
and friends. May we go forward
into the next generation together
from strength to strength!
Rabbi Marc Samuels
The Center is grateful to
Rabbi Marc Samuels who
recently donated his personal
collection of over 1,000 books
to the Judaica collection at
the UConn Babbidge Library.
A future newsletter will
describe the collection after
it is catalogued.

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Arnold Dashefsky with Janet M. and I. Martin Fierberg
at the Inaugural Fierberg Lecture.
Judaic Studies
Lectures Co-sponsored by
Generous Friends
■ The Zachs Lecture Series at the School of
Social Work in West Hartford was sponsored
by Judy and Henry Zachs, and featured Jeffrey
Gurock, Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva
University.
■ The Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture was
given at the Storrs campus by Adele Berlin,
Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the
University of Maryland.
■ Brandeis University Jewish History Professor
Jonathan Sarna presented his lecture, “The
Jewish Vote Counts,” at an event co-sponsored
by the Greater Hartford Jewish
Community Center.
■ Omer Bartov, Professor of History at Brown
University, discussed “Israel, Palestine and the
Holocaust: Jews and Arabs in Israeli Cinema”
at the Fierberg Lecture sponsored by I. Martin
and Janet M. Fierberg.
■ Hasia Diner presented the Annual Louis J.
Kuriansky Lecture on “Jewish History in the
United States: A Very Different ‘Galut’” at
UConn’s Stamford Campus.
Left to Right: Arnold Dashefsky, Robert Chazan, Georgia
and Gene Mittelman, President Philip Austin, Stuart and
Laura Miller attending a Mittelman Lecture.
North American Jewish Data Bank Calls
UConn Home
How many of America’s 5.2 million
Jews are married to non-Jews? And
how many of this nation’s Jewish adults
attend religious services monthly?
Data that provide answers to such
questions concerning the social and
demographic characteristics of the
American Jewish community are now
available at an interactive website
administered by UConn’s Center for
Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish
Life, in collaboration with the Roper
Center for Public Opinion Research
and supported by United Jewish
Communities (UJC). The website,
www.jewishdatabank.org, is available
to all for non-commercial use.
“The website contains the most
advanced database of social scientific
studies of North American Jewry and
allows researchers to better understand
the size and composition of different
Jewish populations in the United States,”
says Arnold Dashefsky, Professor of
Sociology and Director of the Center for
Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish
Life. “Individuals can now download
data from the archive over the web and
conduct their own analysis of it.”
The website is the result of a new partnership
between the Center for Judaic
Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life
and UJC, a New York-based philanthropic
organization representing 155 Jewish
community federations and 400
independent Jewish communities across
North America.
Over two decades, the UJC has amassed
the largest archive of social scientific
and demographic studies of North
American Jewry in an effort to promote
understanding of changes within the
Jewish community. This archive, the
Mandell L. Berman Institute – North
American Jewish Data Bank, is now the
principal repository of social scientific
and demographic studies of the North
American Jewish community. Included
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MOMENTS IN CENTER TIME
1979
Nobel Laureate I.B.
Singer is inaugural
lecturer at opening
ceremonies.
Faculty Forum begins
and celebrates its 56th
semester in fall 2006.
1982
Individualized
major in Judaic
Studies is offered.
Israel Study Program
launched.
Academic Convocations
on the Holocaust begin.
Bill Berman (left), Chair of the North American
Jewish Data Bank Board, presents UConn’s
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Ross MacKinnon, with a copy of the Data Bank
publication How Jewish Communities Differ by
Ira Sheskin.
1983
Yiddish Tish
luncheons are
initiated and
continue today.
Visiting lecturers
from abroad broaden
the program.
1986
Sepphoris
Archaeological
Dig in Israel
begins with support
from many friends
including Dean
Ross MacKinnon
and The Jewish
Community
Foundation.

1988
among its holdings are national surveys
of the U.S. Jewish populations in 1971
and 1990, more than 90 local Jewish
community studies from the 1960’s to
the present, and the National Jewish
Population Survey of 2000-2001 reflecting
the most recently collected data as
well as studies of Canadian Jewry.
The archive, established in 1986 by one
of the UJC’s predecessor organizations,
the Council of Jewish Federations,
originally was based at the City University
of New York’s Center for Jewish Studies.
In 2004, the Data Bank was moved
from Brandeis University, its second
home, to UConn, under the auspices
of the Center for Judaic Studies and
Nobel Laureate
Elie Wiesel visits
the campus
and receives an
honorary degree.
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PROGRAM NOTE: M.A. in Judaic Studies
“The Master of Arts Program in Judaic Studies
at the University of Connecticut is the only
one of its kind at a public university
between Boston and New York,” says Arnold
Dashefsky, Professor of Sociology and
Director of the Center for Judaic Studies
and Contemporary Jewish Life.
There are presently ten matriculated students
in the program as well as unmatriculated
students and those from other fields. Among
the courses taught are Ancient Jewish
Fictions, Bible and Archaeology, Topics in
Biblical Studies, Contemporary Jewish
Writers, Contemporary Studies in Jewish
Civilization, Hebrew and Yiddish Language
Courses, History and Literature of Talmudic
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Palestine, The Holocaust, Israel and the
Ancient Near East, Exile to Enlightenment,
Jewish Ethics, Jews and Christians in the
Middle Ages, Literature and Religion, Media
and the Middle East, Medieval Jewish Biblical
Exegesis, Modern European Jewish History,
Modern Jewish History, Politics and Society
in Contemporary Israeli and Arab Literature
and Sociology of American Jewry.
The Master’s program is administered by
the Center and offered in consortium with
the University of Hartford. The program
relies on distinguished faculty from UConn,
the University of Hartford, Trinity College, the
University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan
University and they hold appointments in
Sociology, History, Philosophy and Modern
and Classical Languages, among other fields.
Stuart Miller, Professor of Hebrew, History
and Judaic Studies, Classics and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies in Modern and
Classical Languages and Associate Director
of the Center for Judaic Studies and
Contemporary Jewish Life, believes the
program’s novelty is its strength. Miller says,
“We’re pulling colleagues from different
disciplines to teach students from diverse
backgrounds and places.”
Left to Right - Christopher Clarke,
Matthias Marburg, Hagit
Kalmanovitch, Maha Darawsha,
Dustin Stein, Naomi Wasser
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1995
Graduate School
approves start up
of M.A. in Judaic
Studies.
1996
The Center moves
to the Thomas
J. Dodd Research
Center.
2000
M.A. in Judaic
Studies is given final
approval by the
State of Connecticut
Department of Higher
Education.
2003
The Morris N.
Trachten Kosher
Dining Facility
arrives on campus.
2004
Mandell L. Berman
Institute - North
American Jewish Data
Bank relocates to
UConn from Brandeis.
The Center celebrates
25 years of continual
growth.
2006
This new newsletter
debuts to tell the
story of the Center
for Judaic Studies
and Contemporary
Jewish Life.
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MEET SOME OF OUR GRADUATE STUDENTS
CHRISTOPHER CLARKE attended Marlboro
College where he received a B.A. in Religion
and Literature, and was especially interested
in the History and Literature of the Second
Temple period. Chris recently completed
his M.A. in Judaic Studies at UConn having
received the UConn Graduate School
MEET OUR DIRECTORS
ARNOLD DASHEFSKY is
Professor of Sociology and the
founding Director of the Center
for Judaic Studies and Contemporary
Jewish Life at the University of
Connecticut in Storrs, as well
as the Director of the Mandell
L. Berman Institute – North
American Jewish Data Bank.
He is currently working on
two new books, Charitable Choices
(with B. Lazerwitz), which focuses
on the motivations for charitable
giving, and American Jews:
Continuity and Identity (with J.
Fellowship, Cohen and
Henes Award and Sylvia
and Leo Dashefsky
Prize. Currently, he is
studying in the doctoral
program in Hebrew
Bible at Claremont
Graduate University
in California. Chris
writes: “One of
the greatest things
about the Center for
Judaic Studies and
Contemporary Jewish
Life at UConn is
the personal attention you receive from
the professors. The professors are very
supportive of their students. I felt that
Arnie Dashefsky and the Center went
out of their way to support me when
I went to Israel and during my final year
of Hebrew.”
A. Winter), which identifies the
current trends in American Jewish
life and offers policy directions
based on recent research. Dr.
Dashefsky is a senior scholar at the
National Center for Jewish Policy
Studies of Boston. He also serves
on the Board of Directors of the
Association for Jewish Studies,
an international organization,
and on its Executive Committee
as Secretary-Treasurer. His most
recent publications include: “A
Journey of the ‘Straight Way’ or
the ‘Roundabout Path:’ Jewish
Identity in the United States and
Israel,” with B. Lazerwitz and E.
Tabory, which appeared
in the Handbook of the Sociology
of Religion (Cambridge: 2003),
240-260, and “The Relationship
Between Formal Jewish Education
and Dimensions of Jewish
Identity,” with C. Lebson, which
appeared in Contemporary Jewry
23 (2002), 96-131.
STUART MILLER is Professor
of Hebrew, History and Judaic
Studies, Classics and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies in Modern
and Classical Languages and
Associate Director of the
Center for Judaic Studies and
Contemporary Jewish Life.
He spent the Fall 2003 semester
as a Visiting Research Scholar at
the Hebrew University in
RHONNA ROGOL became a Judaic Studies
Master’s degree candidate in 2004 after over
20 years in the legal profession and is most
interested in the Contemporary period.
Currently, she is investigating the determinants
of Atheism among Jews and Christians in
the U.S. Rhonna is Director of Programming
and Community Outreach for the Center for
Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies at UConn
Stamford. She is the recipient of the Cohen
and Henes Award and received the Stamford
Jewish Family Services’ 2004 Mitzvah Day
Award for dedication
to volunteerism.
Rhonna holds a J.D.
in Law from New
York University and
a B.A. in Politics and
Near Eastern and
Judaic Studies from
Brandeis University.
Jerusalem, where he completed
work on his forthcoming book,
Sages and Commoners in Late
Antique Erets Israel, A Philological
Inquiry into Local Traditions in
Talmud Yerushalmi (Tübingen:
Mohr Siebeck, 2006). He also
pursued his research on the
“stepped pools” discovered in the
Galilean town of Sepphoris.
Professor Miller, who is a staff
member of the Sepphoris Regional
Project, is authoring a book
together with two archaeologists
on these pools, many of which
were used for ritual purposes.
Much of Professor Miller’s work is
now devoted to rabbinic society
during the Late Roman/Talmudic
Period and on the intersection of
archaeology and literary sources.
His most recent articles include:
“‘Epigraphical’ Rabbis, Helios, and
Psalm 19: Were the Synagogues of

JEREMY SACHS was born in Los Angeles and
raised on the East Coast. He holds a B.A. in
Latin American Studies from The University of
Maryland and a J.D. from George Washington
University. Jeremy retired after 29 years with a
‘Fortune 500’ financial group, where he first
served as an international account representative
and later practiced corporate and securities law.
Jeremy has traveled to over 45 countries. He
recently attended Hebrew Ulpan at Emek Yezreel
College in Israel and participated in an archaeological
dig at Bethsaida. Jeremy serves his local
community as a volunteer religious-school
teacher and as Chief Docent at the Sherman
Museum of Jewish Civilization at the University
of Hartford.
Archaeology and the Synagogues
of the Sages One and the Same?”
Jewish Quarterly Review 94:1
(2004), 27-76; “Some Observations
on Stone Vessel Finds and Ritual
Purity in Light of Talmudic
Sources,” S. Alkier, J. Zangenberg,
eds., Zeichen aus Text und Stein,
Studien auf dem Weg zu einer
Archäologie des Neuen Testaments
(Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 2003),
402-419; and an article in Hebrew,
“Sepphoris and the Diaspora,
The Lasting Influence of a Galilean
Talmudic Center,” which appeared
in I. Gafni, ed., Center and
Diaspora, The Land of Israel and
the Diaspora in the Second Temple,
Mishna, and Talmud Periods
(Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center,
2004), 189–216.
NEHAMA ASCHKENASY is
Professor of Comparative Literary
and Cultural Studies at the
University of Connecticut and
founding Director of the Center for
Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies
at its Stamford campus. She is
author of three books, including
the award-winning Eve’s Journey:
Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary
Tradition, and numerous book chapters
and articles. Among her recent
DUSTIN STEIN is a recent graduate and a recipient
of the UConn Graduate School Fellowship,
UConn Judaic Studies Israel Travel Endowment,
Cohen and Henes Award, Harold J. Arkava
Scholarship and the David A. Ivry Memorial Fund
Award. As Professor Arnold Dashefsky’s Graduate
Research Assistant, he was able to observe the
“intensity that academic scholarship requires and
assist with research and editing.” While attending
UConn, Dustin interned at a law firm investigating
Shoah restitution cases in Poland, Germany and
England. He holds an M.A. in Political Science
from Lehigh
University and
a B.A. in Biology/
Religion and
Political Theory
from Muhlenberg
College. Currently,
Dustin is attending
Cardozo Law School
in New York City.
publications is a dedicated volume
of AJS Review (2004), the national
and international Journal of the
Association for Jewish Studies.
The volume entitled Recreating
the Canon: The Biblical Presence
in Modern Hebrew Literature and
Culture, is a Cambridge University
Press publication and includes
submissions from some of the foremost
scholars in Israeli, Hebrew,
and Zionist history and literature.
Aschkenasy herself contributed a
methodological introduction as
well as an article titled “‘And a
Small Boy Leading Them:’ The
Child and the Biblical Landscape
in Agnon, Oz, and Appelfeld.”
Among her other recent publications
is “Agnon’s Dickensian
Moment: ‘Baya’ar uva’ir’” (Journal
of Modern Jewish Studies, 2003) in
which she uncovered a possible
source for an Agnon short story,
and a chapter in Peter Hawkins
(ed.), Scrolls of Love (Fordham
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Great Gratitude
Thank you to Doris and Simon
Konover for continued support
of Center programs in Jewish-
Christian Relations and Holocaust
Studies, as well as the Center
newsletter. Simon Konover, a
survivor of a Nazi labor camp,
the Battle of Stalingrad, and the
Holocaust, is the founder of
Konover Associates, Inc. of West
Hartford, one of the largest real
estate development firms in
the nation. Doris Konover is a
graduate of the University of
Connecticut, Class of 1950, and
Simon Konover received an
Honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters degree from the University
of Connecticut in 1996.
University Press, 2005) titled
“The Book of Ruth as Comedy:
Classical and Modern Perspectives,”
as well as numerous review essays
and Opinion articles in the
Stamford Advocate/Greenwich News.
She also reports that the Center at
the Stamford campus is expanding
in different directions, most notably
in interfaith programming, for
which the Center has received a
three-year commitment of a substantial
gift from an anonymous
attorney in Stamford.
Future newsletters will feature other
members of the faculty including:
Sara Johnson, T.A. Perry and
Nechama Tec as well as adjunct
lecturers, including Richard Freund
of the University of Hartford,
Jonathan Elukin, Samuel Kassow
and Ronald Kiener of Trinity
College and Berel Lang of Wesleyan
University.
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6 • 2006
Holocaust Commemoration
UConn’s Annual Holocaust Commemoration was organized by Dr. Joan
Seliger Sidney, a child of Holocaust survivors. The speakers included
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Elliot Wolk, Board of Trustees
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Bruce M. Stave, and Board
of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English and Aetna Chair of Writing
Lynn Bloom.
Dr. Seliger Sidney shared readings from her book, Body of Diminishing
Motion: Poems and a Memoir, and excerpts from Dry Tears – The Story
of a Lost Childhood and Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and
the Holocaust, both books by Professor Nechama Tec.
Ralph G. Seliger, Dr. Seliger Sidney’s brother, presented The Frances
and Irving Seliger Prize for Excellence in Holocaust Studies to UConn
undergraduates, Marlene Katz and Tara Von Kuhn. He then shared the
Holocaust experiences of his family, in whose name the Seligers
established the prize:
Joan Seliger Sidney, Commemoration
Organizer
My father tried for over two years to
gain visas to leave Europe. They finally
received U.S. immigration visas on the
eve of the Nazi conquest of Yugoslavia.
My father recalled how indifferent the U.S.
consular officials were toward their plight.
They even withheld their visas until my
father gathered letters from the countries
they were going to travel through, that they
would be granted transit visas once they
presented their U.S. immigration visas – a
totally unnecessary exercise in delay which
would have cost them their lives if the
Germans had attacked sooner. We now
know that these consular officials were
following explicit instructions from Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge
Long to obstruct and delay the desperate efforts of Jewish refugees to gain legal
entry to the United States. In the meantime, our grandparents on both sides
of the family, and my father’s two sisters, a brother and nephews and nieces
all perished - most under unknown circumstances at the hands of the Nazis,
and our maternal grandparents evidently at the hands of Ukrainian peasants.
The impact of these losses upon my parents and as a result also upon us, their
children, was very heavy. What do we learn from this, what must we learn
from this? That history matters. That we must pay attention to current events
and be engaged in the world and ever-vigilant for the need to assist and rescue
people in dire need no matter where they are. It is an accident of timing but
not of history that this month (April 2004) is the tenth anniversary of the
genocide in Rwanda. The Rwanda genocide more closely parallels the Jewish
Holocaust than any of the many horrendous events of this past century. Both
involved a lethal state-sponsored ideology to demonize a people and to totally
and systematically annihilate that population. Both peoples fell victim because
their need for rescue was effectively ignored by the world. And both genocides
came to an end only with the total military defeat of the genocidal state regime.
In conclusion, members of UConn Hillel led a memorial observance
for victims of the Holocaust.
DONORS AND SUPPORTERS
GIFTS FROM OUR FRIENDS
The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life
wishes to recognize the generous support of our friends and
alumni over the past four fiscal years. The Center has also been
supported over the years in part by grants from The Jewish
Federation and Councils of Connecticut in Bridgeport,
Danbury, Greenwich, Hartford, New Haven, New London,
Stamford, Waterbury and Westport as well as special grants
from the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford.
ENDOWED GIFTS/ANNUITIES
The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish
Life would like to extend our gratitude to the following
families, who have graciously supported the Center through
the endowments and annuities they have established.
Harold J. Arkava Fund (Harold J. Arkava)
The Cohen and Henes Scholarship Fund in Judaic
Studies (Colonel and Mrs. Robert L. Cohen and Mr.
Stephen I. Cohen)
Sylvia and Leo Dashefsky Prize and Endowment Fund
(Dashefsky Family)
Endowment for the Center of Judaic Studies and
Contemporary Jewish Life (Mr. A. Mark Rosen)
I. Martin and Janet M. Fierberg Lecture in Judaic
Studies (I. Martin and Janet M. Fierberg)
Fund for the Enhancement of Judaic Studies
(Colonel and Mrs. Robert L. Cohen and
Mr. Stephen I. Cohen)
Robert M. Gordon Judaic Studies Library Fund
(Robert M. Gordon)
Yosef Gordon Judaic Studies Library Fund
(Yosef Gordon)
David A. Ivry Memorial Fund for Judaic Studies
(Mrs. Barbara Ivry and Robert and Patricia Ivry)
Simon and Doris Konover Program in Jewish-Christian
Relations Endowment (Simon and Doris Konover)
Lucius N. Littauer Judaica Book Fund (Lucius N. Littauer)
Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies
(Gene and Georgia Mittelman)
Lillian and George Rubin Memorial Judaic
Library Fund (Gene and Georgia Mittelman)
Frances and Irving Seliger Memorial Endowment Fund
(Stuart Sidney and Joan Seliger Sidney)
UConn Judaic Center Israel Travel Endowment
(Mr. A. Mark Rosen)
Jan Winkler Award for Study in Israel
(Jan Winkler)

Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life
Donors - July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Abels*
Dr. Arthur S. Abramson*
Allmerica Financial Charitable
Foundation, Inc.
Ms. Emily E. Andersen
Mr. Harold J. Arkava
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Arron*
Mr. David S. Baumstein
Dr. Curt F. Beck and Mrs. Ina
Ruth S. Beck
Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Benson
Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Berman
Mr. Jonathan S. Bilmes and Ms.
Barbara A. Becker*
Mrs. Lori Blackman
B’Nai B’Rith Hillel Foundation*
Bnai Shalom Synagogue*
Mr. Joel and Dr. Robin Bogner*
Ms. Ethel S. Botnick
Mr. and Mrs. Allen J. Brand
Dr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Brandstein
Mr. Gary Bykoff and Ms. Arsha
Beikian*
Drs. Irene and Richard Brown
Steven and Wendy Camassar
Mr. Gary Carr
Chesterfield Minuteman Press
Ms. Estelle Cohen
Colonel and Mrs. Robert L.
Cohen
Mr. Stephen I. Cohen
Community Capital Campaign*
Congregation Agudas Achim*
Congregation B’Nai Jacob*
Congregation Tikvoh
Chadoshoh*
Mr. and Mrs. Colman Dashefsky
Drs. Arnold and Sandra
Dashefsky*
Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Davis
Mrs. Beth A. Eisenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Eisenberg
Eli Lilly and Company
Foundation
Endowment Foundation
of the Jewish Federation of
Greater Hartford*
Mr. Irving Esner
The Federation of Jewish Men’s
Clubs
Jonathon and Darlene Ference
Fidelity Investments*
Mr. and Mrs. I. Martin Fierberg
Dr. Stephen J. Fierberg
Mr. Barry H. Fox
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore G. Fox
Mr. and Mrs. Avram Freedberg*
Mr. and Mrs. David Freudmann*
Dr. and Mrs. Barry D. Friedman
Dr. Robert E. Friedman
Mr. and Mrs. Larry S. Gavens
Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Gavens*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerrol
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gladstein*
Ms. Emily Glasser
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Goldberg
Mr. Harry E. Goldfarb*
The Harry E. Goldfarb Family
Foundation, Inc.*
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Goldfarb*
Mr. Harvey T. Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Gordon*
Graduate Student Senate Judaic
Studies Society
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold C.
Greenberg*
Mr. Harold Grinspoon*
The Harold Grinspoon Charitable
Foundation*
Mr. and Mrs. David R. Harris
Dr. Robert R. Harris*
Hartford Foundation for Public
Giving
Ms. De Fischler Herman
Dr. Arnold Hyman
Mrs. Barbara Ivry
Robert and Patricia Ivry
Jewish Center for Community
Services, Inc.
Jewish Community Foundation*
Jewish Educators Council of
Greater Hartford
Jewish Federation of Eastern
Connecticut
Jewish Federation of Greater
Hartford*
Jewish Foundation of the Jewish
Federation of Greater New
Haven*
Ms. Juanita Jones
Ms. Ziona Kaplan-Weber
Mrs. Harriett K. Karp
Mr. and Mrs. David Katzin*
Mr. Nevin Kessler and Ms. Mary
Lyn McBride*
The Doris and Simon Konover
Family Foundation*
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Konover*
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Koteen
Mrs. Diana F. Kramer
Mrs. Diane Kreisler
Mrs. Robin W. Krieger
Dr. Berel Lang*
Mr. Barnett D. Laschever
Mrs. Susan C. Lasker
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Leibowitz
Dr. and Mrs. Manuel Lerman*
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Levine*
Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Levine*
Dr. Carol W. Lewis
Dr. and Mrs. Arlen Lichter*
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M.
Lieberman*
Dr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Loew*
Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Lurie*
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall D.
Marcus*
Dr. and Mrs. Alvin Mars
Marsha Lilien Gladstein
Foundation*
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Matlaw
Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Meyer
Prof. and Mrs. Stuart S. Miller*
Mr. and Mrs. Gene S. Mittelman
Mrs. Paula K. Madansky
Mr. and Mrs. Jason P. Munk*
National Council of Young
Israel*
Ms. Florence Nelson*
Northwestern Mutual Financial
Mr. and Ms. Michael E. Palmer
Dr. and Mrs. Irwin L. Peikes
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