Events

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Closing Ceremony & Graduation Graduation is a significant milestone in the lives of IL Peretz school students. If you've never been to a graduation, you will be shocked at how much you learn from the graduates as they present their research projects. Please come to support our graduates. The ceremony starts at 11:00 AM at[...]

Join Us and Learn about Our School! The I.L. Peretz Community Jewish School, for children K through 7th grades, attracts families of diverse structures and backgrounds and meets on Sunday mornings from September through May. (We've conducted online classes during the coronavirus shutdown.) The curriculum emphasizes historical and cultural approaches to the study of our[...]

(Teen Group Event) The Catcher Was a Spy: Film & Discussion Over the past few years, the Teen Group has enjoyed a number of films together, mainly at Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, our last being Tel Aviv on Fire, which everyone thought was a terrific movie. So join us now for our next film—and discussion[...]

(Family Event) Open House We will kick off this year with our school's Open House! Come learn more about our school and community and just have a good time! Guests are welcome! Come yourself and bring your friends and family!

(Family Event) This year due to the pandemic our High Holiday Ceremonies will be on Zoom Rosh Hashanah: Saturday, September 19, 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Yom Kippur: Monday, September 28, 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Our Ceremonies Are Open to All Please Contact Us for the Zoom meeting ID and passcode. You can download the[...]

(Family Event) This year due to the pandemic our High Holiday Ceremonies will be on Zoom Rosh Hashanah: Saturday, September 19, 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Yom Kippur: Monday, September 28, 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Our Ceremonies Are Open to All Please Contact Us for the Zoom meeting ID and passcode. You can download the[...]

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(Teen Group Event) Backyard Screening & Dinner Jewish Film Festival Movie: Asia It’s time again for the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival—this year, all films will be streamed online, paving the way for a (weather permitting) duo of socially distanced backyard screenings and dinner! Be sure to dress for the weather, bring folding chairs if you[...]

(Teen Group Event) Backyard Screening & Dinner Jewish Film Festival Movie: Breaking Bread It’s time again for the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival—this year, all films will be streamed online, paving the way for a (weather permitting) duo of socially distanced backyard screenings and dinner! Be sure to dress for the weather, bring folding chairs if[...]

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(Adult Education Event) Rutgers Film Festival and Community Discussion This pandemic year the Bildner Center is presenting the annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival (RJFF) online, Nov. 8-22, 2020. The Peretz Planning Committee selected two films for an online discussion: Nowhere in Africa. Q&A with Caroline Link, Sunday, Nov. 15, Noon. Asia. Q&A with Ruthy Prabar, Director, and[...]

(Family Event) Please join us for IL Peretz’s Community Hanukkah Celebration with school students. Learn how to make Latkes and sour pickles! Be a part of our Hanukkah Candle Lighting Ceremony, community sing-a-long, and other activities. Please bring an appetizer or a dessert for all to share. RSVP's are greatly appreciated either by e-mailing Lily[...]

(Adult Education Event) Trauma in the West Bank: My Personal Experience - a presentation by Susan Gutwill, MSW, LCSW Susan Gutwill recently visited the West Bank as part of a group of trauma specialists composed of psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists and professors, all studying social services throughout the West Bank. They visited 3 different sites a[...]

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(Family Event) Please join us for our IL Peretz Community Tu B’Shevat (zero waste) Seder. We will have environmental and social action activities. Singing, eating, and social action celebrating the environment and “The New Year of Trees” - Tu B’Shevat. This is a family event and all are invited to attend! Please RSVP via e-mail[...]

(Family Event)   Join us for fun games and activities in the cafeteria of Rutgers Prep! There are prizes to be won as well.

(Adult Education Event) Beyle: The Artist and Her Legacy - Film Screening and Moderated Discussion Please join us for an online film screening of Beyle: The Artist and Her Legacy. This 40-minute film explores the life and legacy of Yiddish activist and artist Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. It was produced and directed by the Yiddish Book Center’s[...]

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During Roman times, rabbis would study the Torah in secret. Their students would stand guard and fool the Romans by having sporting competitions. The holiday of Lag B’Omer commemorates this time. Today, Lag B’Omer is celebrated with picnics, sporting events, hikes, and bon fires. Please join us for our Lag B’Omer celebration at Peretz. We[...]

(Adult Education Event) Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return - a Virtual Discussion Please join us for a virtual discussion of Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return, an essay by Peter Beinart published in Jewish Currents on May 11, 2021. Ira Mintz, who brought the article to our attention, will moderate. Those[...]

(Family Event) This year due to the pandemic our High Holiday Ceremonies will be on Zoom Rosh Hashanah: Tuesday, September 7, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Yom Kippur: Thursday, September 16, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Our Ceremonies Are Open to All Please Contact Us for the Zoom meeting ID and passcode. You can download the[...]

(Family Event) This year due to the pandemic our High Holiday Ceremonies will be on Zoom Rosh Hashanah: Tuesday, September 7, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Yom Kippur: Thursday, September 16, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Our Ceremonies Are Open to All Please Contact Us for the Zoom meeting ID and passcode. You can download the[...]

(Adult Education Event) Philip Orenstein: Painting History - a Virtual Discussion In the summer of 1940, after the German occupation of Paris, the French liberal democratic government voted to establish a dictatorship. The facts about this regressive government and its treatment of its Jewish citizens were suppressed and hidden for nearly fifty years. In the[...]

(Adult Education Event) Rutgers Film Festival Online Discussion This pandemic year the Bildner Center is presenting the annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival (RJFF) both at theaters and online, Nov. 7-21, 2021. The Peretz Planning Committee has selected two films for an online discussion: Wet Dog. 103 min. This was chosen to be the opening-night film of[...]

(Adult Education Event) Breaking the Silence on the Occupation: Film and Online Discussion We will be streaming this extraordinary 20 minute video by Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Michael Sfard. The video breaks down the Israeli government's decades-long project to settle Palestinian land in the West Bank, entrench permanent Israeli control, and prevent Palestinian self-determination and[...]

(Adult Education Event) Maxine Susman: Poetry Reading Writer and poet Maxine Susman will read and talk from My Mother’s Medicine, a biography-in-poems about her mother, who grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from the only all-women’s medical school in the country during the Great Depression. The story has a feminist-Jewish focus. Maxine will also read environmental[...]

(Adult Education Event) Thawing the Chilly Climate: The Mary H Dana Women Artists Series at 50 This illustrated talk, by Dr. Ferris Olin, will provide an overview of the oldest continuously running exhibition space in America for emerging and established women artists, founded in 1971 by Highland Park native and MacArthur Genius, Joan Snyder. The[...]

(Adult Education Event) Danny Adlerman Performs Your Requests! Please join us for this Friday night event during which Danny Adlerman will perform your requests and accompany himself on the guitar. It promises to be great fun!! Danny will entertain us with your music requests as well as sing some of his own compositions. To place a[...]

(Adult Education Event) Ancient/Modern Ethical Principles The collection "Ethics of the Fathers" was compiled 1800 years ago, but many of the ethical principles it contains are as relevant now as they were then. The ethical principles in the collection (its Hebrew name is Pirkei Avot) fall into three categories—between a person and him/herself, between a person[...]

(Adult Education Event) Cinema Sabaya: Film and Online Discussion The Peretz Program Planning Committee has selected Cinema Sabaya as the primary film for our annual Rutgers Bildner Center Jewish Film Festival[...]

(Adult Education Event) Women of Valor: Polish Jewish Resistors to the Third Reich In this talk based on her recent book, Joanne D. Gilbert, author, educator, and public speaker, celebrates the[...]

(Adult Education Event) Mothers of Invention: Carol Simon Levin Carol Simon Levin portrays Lillian Moller Gilbreth, motion study pioneer and “Cheaper by the Dozen” mother of 12 and shares the[...]

(Family Event) Join us for our beautifully situated Rosh Hashanah Ceremony under the trees at Rutgers Preparatory School 1345 Easton Avenue Somerset, NJ Saturday, September 16, 11:00 am - 1:30[...]

(Family Event) Join us for our beautifully situated Yom Kippur Ceremony under the trees in Grove 1 at Donaldson Park 526 South Second Avenue Highland Park, NJ Monday, September 25,[...]

(Adult Education Event) The Goldman Case: Film and Online Discussion The Peretz Program Planning Committee has selected The Goldman Case as the primary film for our annual Rutgers Bildner Center Jewish[...]

(Adult Education Event) Israelism: Film and Online Discussions The Peretz Program Planning Committee is sponsoring a 3-part online program, beginning with a free, online screening of the film Israelism. Please[...]

(Adult Education Event) Unearthed: A Memoir by Meryl Frank At this Zoom event, Meryl Frank will discuss her recent, highly acclaimed memoir and detective story: Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a[...]

(Adult Education Event) Who Will Remain: Film and Online Discussions The Yiddish Book Center is sponsoring this online screening of the film Who Will Remain? (Ver Vet Blaybn?). Please contact[...]

(Adult Education Event) My Disability Roadmap: Film and Online Discussion The Peretz Program Planning Committee is sponsoring a 3-part online program, beginning with a free, online screening of the film[...]

(Adult Education Event) Albert Einstein: Champion of Racial Justice and Equality The Peretz Program Planning Committee is sponsoring an online program with speakers Elizabeth Romanaux & Shirley Satterfield focusing on[...]

(Family Event) Join us for our beautifully situated Rosh Hashanah Ceremony under the covered pavilion at Johnson Park Picnic Grove 5 Johnson Park Road Piscataway, NJ Please share this event[...]

(Family Event) Join us for our beautifully situated Yom Kippur Ceremony under the trees at Rutgers Preparatory School 1345 Easton Avenue Somerset, NJ Please share this event on Facebook or[...]

(Adult Education Event) The Critical Presidential Election of 2024 Speaker Gerald Pomper will discuss the historical significance of this election, the present state of the race, and possible outcomes, both[...]

(Adult Education Event) Janis Ian: Breaking Silence (Film and Online Discussion) Please join us for our annual program in which we discuss films shown at the Rutgers Bildner Center Jewish[...]

(Adult Education Event) John Lewis: From Protest to Politics Born into poverty in rural Alabama, John Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to[...]

(Adult Education Event) Susan Sontag: Cultural Politics and Moral Imperative In the early 1960s, Susan Sontag (1933-2004) began publishing critical essays on postwar avant-garde culture.  As time went on, however,[...]

(Adult Education Event) The Rise and Imminent Demise of the Administrative State: A Provisional Obituary The talk will begin with the rudimentary American government that existed in the years before[...]

(Family Event) Join us for our beautifully situated Rosh Hashanah Ceremony under the covered pavilion at Johnson Park Picnic Grove 5 Johnson Park Road Piscataway, NJ Please share this event[...]

(Family Event) Join us for our beautifully situated Yom Kippur Ceremony under the covered pavilion at Johnson Park Picnic Grove 5 Johnson Park Road Piscataway, NJ Please share this event[...]

(Adult Education Event) SODA (Film and Online Discussion) Please join us for our annual program in which we discuss films shown at the Rutgers Bildner Center Jewish Film Festival. The[...]

(Family Event) Join us for our beautifully situated Rosh Hashanah Ceremony under the trees at Rutgers Preparatory School 1345 Easton Avenue Somerset, NJ Saturday, September 12, 11:00 am - 1:00[...]

(Family Event) Join us for our beautifully situated Yom Kippur Ceremony under the covered pavilion at Johnson Park Picnic Grove 5 Johnson Park Road Piscataway, NJ Monday, September 21, 11:00[...]