Featured Past Events
Firelech Jewish Musical Theater
As part of Russian Culture Week 2012, Firelech Jewish Musical Theater...Read More
Yuri Foreman: A World Champion and Would be Rabbi Speaks on Boxing, Judaism and Life
In 2009 Yuri Foreman won the WBA Super Welterweight Belt title. Yuri is the first Orthodox Jew to win a world championship in nearly 75 years..
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There Are Jews in My House: A Reading And Conversation With Lara Vapnyar
Winner of the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
Lara Vapnyar is lauded by many critics as one of the most promising new literary voices in the nation. Two of her publications include collections of short stories, There Are Jews in My House and Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, and a novel Memoirs of a Muse.
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Past Events
Academic Year 2012-13
At Home in Russian Jewish Place
Graduation 2013
Doctors and Doctrines: Discovering the Role of Religion in Modern Healthcare
Citizens of Nowhere - African Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Modern Day Israel
Red Star Over the Shtetl - Soviet Nostalgia in the Post-Soviet Jewish Culture
Spring Retreat. March 1-3, 2013
Doroga
Literary Encounter with Gary Shteyngart
Israel at the Crossroads
Academic Year 2011-12
Stranded Soviet Jew's Long Journey into the Free World
Changing The Rules Of The Game: Emerging Russian Jewish Philanthropy
Firelech Jewish Musical Theater
The Russian idea of Jewish Culture, presented by Dr. Olga Litvak, Clark University
Russian Jewry: On Crossroads of Times and Civilizations
Babi Yar in History and Memory: Seventy Years after a Mass Murder
What's Russian about Russian Jews? Presented by Dr. Olga Litvak, Clark University
Academic Year 2010-11
An evening with KGB Case No. 42, Yosef Begun
Faces of Babi Yar in Felix Lembersky's Art Presence and Absence
Yuri Foreman: A World Champion Speaks on Boxing, Judaism and Life
Russian Jews in America: The Latest Chapter
There Are Jews in My House: A Reading and Conversation with Lara VapnyarInternational Law in Russian Constitutional Justice: A Case Study in Capital Punishment
Dialogue in Transition: Germany and Its Jews
Heritage Speakers: Adventures in Re-Learning
Academic Year 2009-10
Painting the Face of Russian Jewry: The Art and Journey of Marc Klionsky
The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in German-Occupied Soviet Territories
International Women's Day Celebration and Adamov Fund Benefit
Photographing the Jewish Nation: Pictures from S. An-Sky's ethnographic expeditions
Preserving the Rights of the Blind, The M.N. Adamov Fund for the Blind
Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry Opening Reception
"Sociological Functions of Russian Jewish Humor" - Emil Draitser