TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Director of the Bennett Center .......................... 1

Fall 2016 - Spring 2017 Highlights and Events ...................2

Daniel Pearl World Music Days Event .........................................4

Faculty & Staff Workshops .........4

Course Offerings – Fall 2017 .......4

Focus on Judaic Studies Faculty ................................5

Looking Ahead .................................6

Shabbat Services & Meals ...........6

Lunch and Learn .............................6

A Year in the Making .....................7

Honor Roll July 2016 - June 2017 ....................8

Judaic Studies Faculty & Friends ............................8

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From the Director of the Bennett Center

In 2016-2017, the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies sponsored many outstanding lectures and other special

events that were well attended by members of the University and the Greater Fairfield/Bridgeport communities. Taken as a whole, the lectures shed light on a variety of past and present Jewish texts, communities, and concerns, while a number of events showcased Jewish participation in the arts. These included musician Dan Saks’ evening of Sephardic songs and stories; Susan Stein’s one-woman play, Etty, based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, who died in Auschwitz in 1943; painter Siona Benjamin’s illustrated talk on her personal and artistic journey from Mumbai to the United States; and producer Nancy Spielberg’s discussion of her film, Above and Beyond, about the creation of the Israeli air force. We also co-sponsored two memorable events. In November, activist, author, and Chairman of Special Olympics Timothy P. Shriver delivered the 2016 Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture on “Overcoming the Fear of Difference,” which was co-sponsored with the University’s Open VISIONS Forum. In late March, the Bennett Center and the University’s Center for Catholic Studies co-sponsored the hauntingly beautiful Annelies: A Choral Setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, performed by soprano Arianna Zukerman, and the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut.

My deep thanks to Rachel Lyke, program manager of the Bennett Center, who in the 10 months that she’s been at the University has done a terrific job of overseeing our programs and handling the day-to-day operations of the Center. My thanks as well to Dr. Paul Lakeland for serving as Acting Director of the Bennett Center while I was on sabbatical in the spring; Rabbi Suri Krieger, Rabbi Evan Schultz, and Cantor Kevin Margolius, for leading on-campus Shabbat services, co-sponsored by the Bennett Center and Campus Ministry during the academic year; Judy Lerner, for helping to revive the University’s Hebrew program; and Mark Edinberg, for musically enhancing our annual Donor reception. My thanks to Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J., president of Fairfield University from 2004-2016 and Interim President and former University Provost, Dr. Lynn Babington, for their long-term, enthusiastic support of the Bennett Center. Finally, a few words of thanks to our donors: over the past 23 years, the Bennett Center has grown because of you. My great appreciation for all who continue to make the Center possible.

I hope that all of you have a wonderful summer. I look forward to seeing many of you in the fall and, in addition to my undergraduate teaching, look forward to once again offering my on-campus adult “Lunch and Learn” class, co-sponsored with the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, during the spring semester.

~ Ellen M. Umansky, PhD Carl and Dorothy Professor of Judaic Studies; Director, Bennett Center for Judaic Studies

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Olympics and the importance of advocating for the inclusion and dignity of marginalized individuals. Underwritten by the Frank Jacoby Foundation in collaboration with the Open VISIONS Forum.

November 29 – Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture in Judaic Studies: “Popular Anger or Planned Pogram? What Really Happened During Kristallnacht” – Author and historian, Dr. Michael A. Meyer, spoke to a deeply engaged audience about German reactions to the events of Kristallnacht and whether or not it had been planned in advance. The Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation funded this lecture.

December 7 – Faculty and staff workshop – Hebrew instructor Judy Lerner taught a lunchtime workshop in the Bennett Center titled “Sarah, First Matriarch of Israel: Ice Princess or Yiddishe Momme?”

February 27 – Lecture: “Is the Movement to Boycott Israel Anti-Semitic?” – Dr. Gabriel Noah Brahm discussed the history and current policies of the controversial BDS movement. Co-sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program.

March 22 – The Samuel and Bettie Roberts Lecture in Jewish Art: “Blue Like Me: The Art of Siona Benjamin” – Painter Siona Benjamin gave an illustrated talk on her work, as inf luenced by her Jewish upbringing in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India. Her paintings combine the imagery of her past with her newer sense of identity in America. This lecture was funded through an endowment to the Bennett Center from Larry Roberts and Suzanne Novik.

March 26 - Annual Jewish-Christian Engagement Event: Annelies: A Choral Setting of the Diary of Anne Frank - Soprano Arianna Zukerman and the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut – performed this incredibly moving piece of music by British composer James Whitbourn,

based on the diary of Anne Frank. Co-sponsored by the Center for Catholic Studies.

April 4 – Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies: “Flight for Life: Jewish Heroism and the Creation of the Israeli Air Force” – Documentary film maker and producer Nancy Spielberg discussed and showed clips of her film Above and Beyond, the story of Jewish airmen who smuggled planes out of the U.S. to fight in Israel’s War of Independence. She also talked about her own sense of Jewish self-identity and ended with a brief clip from her upcoming film on the secret archives of the Warsaw Ghetto.

April 24 – Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service – Betty Deutsch, who survived a Hungarian ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau, was the featured speaker at this very moving event. Co-sponsored by Campus Ministry.

May 18 – Donor Reception – Dr. Umansky and Rachel Lyke invited donors and Judaic Studies faculty to a reception thanking those who have supported the Bennett Center over the past year. Those in attendance enjoyed food, drinks, and music by pianist and friend of the Bennett Center, Mark Edinberg.

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Sept. 25-26 – Judaic Studies Scholar-in-Residence Program – “What American Jewish History Can Tell Us About the American Jewish Future” – Dr. Eric L. Goldstein, associate professor of History and the Judith London Evans director, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University, gave several talks during his two-day visit, including a highly-anticipated and well-attended public lecture drawing on the past 350 years of Jewish life in America and an insightful lunch discussion at Congregation Beth El with area educators and clergy on the letters of colonial New Yorker Abigail Levy Franks. This program was made possible by a gift from David and Edith Chaifetz.

October 5 – Jewish New Year Celebration – Faculty, staff, and students gathered in the Bennett Center to welcome the year 5777 at a reception co-sponsored by the undergraduate Judaic Studies Program.

October 6 – Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert – Musician, singer, and founder of the indie rock band DeLeon, Dan Saks, along with musician Amy Crawford, performed new and reimagined Sephardic folk songs in celebration of the life and legacy of journalist, Daniel Pearl.

October 16 – Sukkot Celebration – Dr. Umansky and Rev. Mark Scalese, S.J. joined members of KADIMA, the Jewish students club, and several other undergraduates in constructing a sukkah (hut) in the plaza between Canisius and Donnarumma Halls. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators joined Dr. Umansky and Bennett Center Program Manager Rachel Lyke for lunch in the sukkah during the week.

October 27 – Bennett Center Lecture – Biblical scholar, Dr. Jason Gaines, gave a fascinating lecture, “The Hidden Poetry of the Five Books of Moses,” on poetic features in priestly narrative texts from the book of Genesis through Deuteronomy.

November 1 – Bennett Center Performance – Playwright and actress, Susan Stein, gave two performances of Etty, a one-woman play based on the writings of Etty Hillesum, a young Dutch Jewish woman who died in Auschwitz. During her two-day visit, Ms. Stein also spoke to students in “Faith After the Holocaust,” “Literature of the Holocaust” and “Speaking of Religion in a Comparative Key.”

November 16 – Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture: “Overcoming the Fear of Difference” – Timothy P. Shriver, activist, educator, author, and film producer discussed his work as Chairman of the Special

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Dr. Jason Gaines, Fairfield adjunct faculty & Hebrew Bible scholar, delivers lecture on the Hidden Poetry of the five Books of Moses.

(L-R) Dr. Gabriel Noah Brahm and Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld at Dr. Brahm’s lecture “Is the Movement to Boycott Israel Anti-Semitic?”

Dan Saks performs Sephardic music as part of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days concert.

(L-R) Dr. Ellen Umansky, Robin Kanarek, Marc Bennett, Nancy Spielberg, and Carl Bennett

(L-R) David Chaifetz, Edie Chaifetz, Dr. Eric Goldstein, and Rev. Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J. at the Scholar-in-Residence lecture. The Scholar-in-Residence program is made possible through the generosity of David & Edie Chaifetz.

Author and historian, Dr. Michael A. Meyer, delivers the Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture in Judaic Studies. This lectureship is made possible through the generosity of the Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation.

(L-R) Tim Shriver, the Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture speaker, with Debbie Zieff, & David Zieff at a dinner before his speech. Co-sponsored with Open VISIONS Forum.

(L-R) Conductor Carole Ann Maxwell, Soprano Arianna Zukerman, Director of the Bennett Center Dr. Ellen Umansky, and Director of the Center for Catholic Studies Dr. Paul Lakeland, at the Annual Jewish-Christian Engagement event. Co-Sponsored with the Center for Catholic Studies.

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Focus on Judaic Studies FacultyDr. Ellen M. Umansky wrote twelve online Torah commentaries published by the Union of Reform Judaism between September 2016 and January 2017: reformjudaism.org/learning/torah-study. Her two-year term as President of the Southern Jewish Historical Society ended in November. She remains a member

of the SJHS Board of Directors and recently joined the Board of Directors of the Stimulus Foundation (of Paulist Press). In the fall of 2016, she taught “History of the Jewish Experience” and “Faith after the Holocaust” and in the spring, she was on sabbatical.

Gail Ostrow taught Holocaust Literature classes, which included two adult learners. These students added to the stimulating classroom experience. She continues teaching peace and justice programs at her local K-8 school. She has made books and materials available to the students in order to extend their learning experiences that relate history to their lives in this moment.

Gavriel Rosenfeld published a new edited volume, What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism, with Cambridge University Press, which includes sixteen essays by leading Jewish studies scholars on counterfactual scenarios from the Jewish past. Along with publishing articles in The Forward and editing his blog, The

Counterfactual History Review, he has published articles such as “Mixed Metaphors in Muranów: Holocaust Memory and Architectural Meaning at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews,” Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, and “Deconstructivism and the Holocaust: On the Origins and Legacy of Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe,” in Wulf Kansteiner, Todd Presner, and Claudio Fogu, eds. Gavriel taught courses on Modern Germany, 1871-Present and The Third Reich.

This past year, 125 students took Jewish Studies courses “Exploring Religion: Peoples of the Book” and “Hebrew Bible” with Dr. Jason Gaines. Since the publication last year of his first book, The Poetic Priestly Source, Dr. Gaines continues to present at conferences such as the annual meeting of the Society of

Biblical Literature on the subject of disability in the Hebrew Scriptures. He has also contributed popular-audience articles on the weekly Torah portions at TheTorah.com.

Congregation B’nai Israel of Bridgeport honored Dr. Philip Eliasoph with a Community Leadership Award. He taught “Jewish Art: Moses to Modernism” in the spring.

In January, he was invited to serve as an expert American-Israel cultural relations consultant with the museum director and curatorial staff at the Beit Hatfutsot Museum of Tel Aviv and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He curated the exhibition ‘Adolf Dehn: Midcentury Manhattan’ for Fairfield University Art Museum and

offered a public lecture. He has published articles over the past year for American Art Review and The New York Times InEducation platform blog page for Art & Visual Culture while serving as the Senior Arts Editor of Fairfield Living.

Rabbi James Prosnit taught “Jewish Interpretation of Scripture.” Rabbi Prosnit, who is the Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel, was appointed to the Board of Governors of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. He serves as Chair of the HUC – JIR Rabbinic Alumni Association. Among numerous community activities, Rabbi Prosnit is co-chair of the Bridgeport Prospers, Collective Impact Leadership Team organized by the United Way. He is past president and current board member of Connecticut Against Gun Violence and a past chair of Operation Hope, a homeless shelter and social service agency in Fairfield.

Dr. Patricia Behre is an associate professor in the Department of History. Her fields of specialty are French Early Modern History (16th-18th centuries), general European History of those centuries, Jewish-Christian relations, and the History of Skepticism. This past year she taught “Origins of the Modern World Since 1500” and an honors

section of “Ideas that Shaped the West.”

Dr. Cecelia Bucki, professor of History, has edited and produced two issues of the journal Connecticut History Review in 2016-17. The Fall 2016 and the Spring 2017 issues are both themed issues on the topic of “Connecticut and World War I.” She has also been working with the state Department of Education in writing a labor history curriculum of Connecticut for use in K-12 Social studies classes. A final new part of Professor Bucki’s work in local history is her appointment to the Connecticut Advisory Board for Historic Preservation, which determines designation of Historic properties throughout the state.

In spring 2018, she will be offering a new version of her “Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity” course, with enhanced attention to Jewish life and culture in the United States.

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Undergraduate Courses – Fall 2017

RELIGIOUS STUDIESHebrew Bible – Dr. Jason Gaines

Jewish Interpretation of Scripture – Rabbi James Prosnit

Introduction to Judaism – Dr. Ellen Umansky

Women in Judaism – Dr. Ellen Umansky

ENGLISHLiterature of the Holocaust – Prof. Gail Ostrow

MODERN LANGUAGESElementary Hebrew I – Prof. Rachel Shur

Intermediate Hebrew I – Prof. Rachel Shur

HISTORYModern Jewish History – Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld

Fairfield students will have the opportunity to select from the following undergraduate courses:

Co-sponsored with the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County

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Daniel Pearl World Music Days EventFor the past 10 years, the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies has brought to campus a musical performance dedicated to the life and legacy of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by extremists in Karachi, Pakistan in 2002. A talented violinist, Danny played with musicians throughout the world, seeing music as a vital force for peace. His family and friends subsequently created The Daniel Pearl World Music Days, an international network of musical performances, to promote cross-cultural understanding through music and innovative communications. Every October, almost 14,000 performances are held in 140 countries to celebrate the life and work of Daniel Pearl. Since 2008, the Bennett Center has hosted such performers as clarinet virtuoso, David Krakauer; fiddler and singer, Alicia Jo Rabins; the Jewish pop rock A Capella group “Six13;” Annette Kogan and the klezmer

group, “Golem;” Galeet Dardashti and the all-female powerhouse “Divahn;” and Dan Saks, front man for the Jewish indie rock band “DeLeon,” who offered an evening of Sephardic stories and songs.

This year’s Daniel Pearl World Music Days Event at Fairfield University, which will take place on Sunday, October 1 at 4 p.m. at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, will be a lively, multimedia experience with Israeli singer/songwriter and activist, David Broza. The event will include a screening of the documentary film, “East Jerusalem West Jerusalem,” about Broza’s setting out to realize his dream of cooperation and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians through music. Following the screening will be a Q&A with David Broza and a musical performance by him. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased from the Quick Center Box Office 203-254-4010.

Judy Lerner, who was a University Hebrew instructor and is a popular lecturer, returned to the Bennett Center to teach a lunchtime workshop for faculty, staff, and students in December. The title of the workshop was “Sarah, First Matriarch of Israel: Ice Princess or Yiddishe Momme.” Her focus was on the various biblical depictions of Sarah, the idea of her reactive laughter, and the rabbinic assessments of Sarah and her place in traditional Jewish lore. The topic prompted a dynamic discussion that left the group intellectually stimulated.

Faculty and Staff Workshop

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Looking Ahead… Fall 2017 ProgramsFor details and locations, see fairfield.edu/judaicstudies or call the Bennett Center at 203-254-4000, ext. 2066

Sunday, October 1, 4 p.m. – Daniel Pearl World Music Days Event: SPOTLIGHT: DAVID BROZA, “East Jerusalem West Jerusalem” – Showing of documentary film followed by a Q&A and performance by David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and activist • Quick Center for the Arts

Co-sponsored with the Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County and the Jewish Arts & Film Festival of Fairfield County.

Tickets to be purchased from Quick Center box office. $10 General Admission; $100 Sponsorship Level, which includes 2 VIP Section tickets, autographed Broza CD and Program Listing.

Wednesday, October 18, 7:30 p.m. – Judaic Studies Scholar-in-Residence: “In Search of Abraham Joshua Heschel” – Rabbi Michael Marmur, PhD, Mandel Provost, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, author of Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder. • Dolan School of Business Dining Room

Wednesday, October 25, 7:30 p.m. – Annual Jewish-Christian Engagement Lecture: “Was Luther’s Christ a Jew?” – Dr. Kirsi Stjerna, First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology; Chair, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley. • Dolan School of Business Dining Room

Co-sponsored with the Center for Catholic Studies

Wednesday, November 15, 8 p.m. – Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture: “A Voice of Conscience: Uncovering Mass Murder from the Holocaust to Today” – Fr. Patrick Desbois, Commission for Relations with Judaism of the French Bishops’ Conference; founder of Yahad-In Unum, an organization dedicated to locating sites of mass graves of Jews killed by German “Death Squads” during WWII. • Quick Center for the Arts Kelley Theatre

Co-sponsored by the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and Open VISIONS Forum

Tuesday, November 28, 7:30 p.m. – Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture – “How American Jews Mobilized to Free Soviet Jewry: Lessons for Activism Today” - Dr. Shaul Kelner, Associate Professor of Sociology & Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University, Fellow, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan (2016). • Dolan School of Business Dining Room

*Complimentary admission for all events except the Fr. Patrick Desbois lecture and Daniel Pearl World Music Days, for which tickets must be purchased through the Quick Center Box Office (203-254-4010). Other events: contact Bennett Center at bennettcenter@fairfield.edu or call 203-254-4000, ext. 2066 for reservations.

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LUNCH AND LEARN

This spring, Dr. Umansky did not offer her Lunch and Learn series, co-sponsored with the Federation for

Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, as she was on sabbatical. She plans to run the session

during the 2018 winter/spring semester and hopes that many of her previous adult learners will study

again with her. New class members welcome! For more information, contact the Bennett Center at

203-254-4000, ext. 2066 or bennettcenter@fairfield.edu.

A Year in the Making…

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The Bennett Center and Campus Ministry co-sponsored on campus Shabbat services for

students, faculty, staff, and administrators. In addition to our evening services and dinners, in the

spring we also held a Shabbat morning service followed by a kosher lunch. This year, our services

were led by Rabbi Suri Krieger, Rabbi Evan Schultz, and Cantor Kevin Margolius, allowing for

vibrant and diverse Shabbat experiences for those in attendance.

Shabbat Services & Meals

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DONOR HONOR ROLL…

Golden Benefactors: $100,000 - $150,000 Carl Bennett

Special Benefactors: $50,000 - $99,000 Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation

Special Sponors: $15,000 - $34,000 Frank Jacoby Foundation The Estate of Henry Katz

Sponsors: $5,000 - $14,999 David & Edie Chaifetz Andrew Feigenson Robert Feigenson

Patron: $1,000 +Lawrence Roberts & Suzanne Novik Norman & Katherine Solomon

Friend: $500 + Mary Beth Brown Peter & Cynthia Burnim Maureen Dewan & Stuart Belkin Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County

Supporter: $200 + Sue & Henry AngelRichard & Shirley BeckerDina & Paul Berger

Carson & Robert BerkowitzElaine & Jonathan BowmanJamie DanceDavid EllensonHarriette HirschThe Estate of Abraham LandermanSeth & Judith LernerDavid & Paula RidgeElaine & Gerald RosenbergAnita & Harold RosnickJane Sutherland & Orin GrossmanEllen Umansky Contributor: up to $199 Bernard & Deborah BaerMarie Dominique BoyceCheryl BundyThe Zieff Family Fund, Inc.Jonathan GoldbergJames Grutzmacher & Sara LadenRobert & Judith JacobsonBrenda KleinmanShelley KreigerBeth LazarMuriel LefsetzGeorge & Christine MarkleyHarriet & Murray MerlLinda Sanders MurrayJoan RosenbaumEdward & Winsome RosenthalDiane SchwartzLauren & Paul SeplowitzYvonne WaynikWallace & Deborah Zuckerman

BENNETT CENTER DIRECTOR Ellen M. Umansky, PhD Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies: Modern Jewish History and Thought, Women’s Spirituality

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR Gavriel Rosenfeld, PhD Professor of History: Modern European History, Modern Germany, Modern Jewish History, The Holocaust

ASSOCIATED FACULTYPatricia Behre, PhD Associate Professor of History: Early Modern France,Medieval Europe

Cecelia Bucki, PhD Associate Professor of History: Labor and Immigration

Philip Eliasoph, PhD Professor of Visual and Performing Arts: Italian Renaissance Civilization, Media and Propaganda in 20th Century Europe

July 2016 – June 2017The Bennett Center for Judaic Studies was founded in 1993 by a gift from Carl and the late Dorothy Bennett of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Endowments have funded the Bennett Chair in Judaic Studies, the Samuel and Bettie Roberts Lecture in Jewish Art, and the Diane Feigenson Lectureship in Jewish Literature Endowment Fund.

We wish to thank the following donors for their generous support of the Bennett Center and the Judaic Studies Program from July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017:

ADJUNCT FACULTY Jason Gaines, PhD Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies Hebrew Bible, Near Eastern Studies

Judy Lerner Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and LiteratureHebrew Language

Gail Ostrow, MS Lecturer, Department of English: Literature of the Holocaust

Rabbi James Prosnit, DD Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies: Classic Rabbinic Texts, Jewish Liturgy

BENNETT CENTER STAFF Rachel Lyke Program Manager

JUDAIC STUDIES FACULTY & STAFF 2016-17

Dorothy and Carl Bennett

Help the Bennett Center continue to offer undergraduate student activities, host special lectures and events, and purchase Judaic DVDs for the DiMenna-Nyselius Library and the Center’s resource room.

Name ________________________________________________________________________________

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Amount enclosed $ ___________________

Gifts to the Bennett Center are tax-deductible. Make checks payable to Bennett Center, Fairfield University.

Mail check(s) and form to: Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, DMH 245, Fairfield University, 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824

Golden Benefactor………$100,000+ Special Benefactor………..$50,000+ Benefactor ............................$35,000+ Special Sponsor ..................$15,000+ Sponsor .................................... $5,000+

Patron ........................................ $1,000+ Friend ............................................ $500+Supporter .................................... $200+Contributor.........................up to $199

FRIENDS OF THE BENNETT CENTER AT FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY

Gifts in Kind :Individuals interested in contributing books, documents, or other items related to Judaic Studies may contact the Bennett Center at 203-254-4000, ext. 2066.

Thank you to Congregation Beth El for providing memorial candles for the Holocaust Remembrance Service. Thank you to Elizabeth Van Tuyl from the Bridgeport Public Library for the donation of Judaica books to the Bennett Center.

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