Events

(Class 18) Adult Program: Regulation and Politics--How Government Regulation Gets Written: Everything you wanted to know but didn't think to ask. A presentation by Stuart Shapiro, Peretz member and Director of the Public Policy Program at Rutgers University. Author of a book coming out this fall, The Politics of Regulatory Reform, Stuart will talk about[...]

Adult Program: “What Makes A Jewish Woman Poet”   A presentation by Alicia Ostriker. Alicia Ostriker is a major American poet and critic, and Professor Emerita of English, Rutgers University. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, she authored thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently The Book of Seventy (2009), which won the Jewish Book[...]

(Class 19) Adult Program: "Is Peace Still Possible?" A presentation by Deborah Schlossberg Deborarh Schlossberg is the Co-Chair of J Street Central Jersey and is a dual American-Israeli citizen. She is a resident of East Brunswick who made Aliyah and lived in Israel for more than a decade. She will show a short video clip[...]

(Class 20) Postponed due to snow removal! Rescheduled for March 9 Adult Program: Evolution, Creationism, and the State of Science Education in America A presentation by Peretz School Principal Jeremy Freedman Evolution has been a grand unifying theory in science for 100 years and yet there are groups that are still challenging this idea. These[...]

(Class 21) Adult Program: "Our Jewish Past in Postcards" A presentation by Peretz member Judy Rosenthal. Long before cell phones, email, text messages, Face Book, and Skype, picture postcards were all the rage. First issued around 1870 in Europe and the United States, they were not only a popular means of inexpensive communication but also[...]

(Class 22) Adult Program:       "The Role of the Righteous Gentiles during the Holocaust" A presentation by Peretz member Deborah Silberstein Who are the heroes of the Holocaust? What inner strength and sense of ethics did they possess to have aided and/or saved not only individual lives, but also the preservation of conscience[...]