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MELANIE EINZIG
SHIRA KOHN
Center Newswire Events
Celebrating 350
Years of Jewish Life
in America
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MELANIE EINZIG
SHIRA KOHN
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“This program really
got me interested
in Judaism and
genealogy. It was a
great way to spend
three weeks.”
Samberg
Family
History
Program
Governor George E. Pataki
hosts a reception to
celebrate the start of the
350 Anniversary of Jewish
Settlers in North America
with 200 friends and
colleagues at the Center
on September 9, 2004.
(A) Sidney Lapidus,
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President of the American
Jewish Historical Society;
B State Assemblyman Ryan Scott Karben; Governor
George E. Pataki; and Center Chairman Bruce Slovin;
(B) Sidney Lapidus accepts the State’s Proclamation from Governor George E. Pataki; (C) Peter
A. Geffen, Executive Director of the Center with Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President
of the New York Board of Rabbis.
Nineteen teens from the New York
metropolitan area worked side by
side with scholars, curators, and
professional genealogists to
research their family’s history using
the Center’s vast archival collection
and library. (E) Participants view a
cloth wimpel, used as a ritual object
in German Jewish communities, in a
workshop with Yeshiva University
Museum curator Gabriel Goldstein;
(F) Samberg students on their way
to Ellis Island, July 15, 2004;
(G) Dylan Suher wearing a
traditional robe at the Bukharian
Jewish Community Center,
July 28, 2004.
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MELANIE EINZIG
Senator Arlen Specter Visits
Dignitaries and political officials often visit the Center to view the
magnificent collections of the partner organizations. Chairman Bruce
Slovin escorted Senator Specter and his wife, Joan on October 4, 2004.
(D) Left to right: Bruce Slovin, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (PA), Joan
Specter, and Yeshiva University Museum Director Sylvia Herskowitz.
October 4, 2004.
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Jews
& Justice
The Jews & Justice series is an
J exploration of contemporary and
legal traditions of the Jewish people
and their relevance to current thinking and practice. Preceding each
panel discussion, The David Berg Foundation hosted a reception for
speakers and friends. Clockwise from above: (H) Suzanne Last Stone,
Professor of Law at Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
(left), co-curator of the Jews & Justice series, with Michele Tocci, a
member of the Center’s Board of Overseers and President of The David
Berg Foundation, underwriters of the program; (I) Left to right:
Professors Elaine Pagels (Princeton University), Abdulaziz Sachedina
(University of Virginia) and David Berger (Brooklyn College and the
Graduate Center at the City University of New York), panelists for
“Tolerance: The Perspectives of Religious Traditions,” June 22, 2004;
(J) Russell G. Pearce (left), Professor of Law, Fordham University Law
School and co-curator of the Jews & Justice series with Peter A. Geffen,
Executive Director of the Center and Edward Rothstein, New York Times
reporter and moderator of the "The Passion" panel February 26, 2004
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