Events
Dual Identities: Author Talk
Tuesday, June 16 at 7 pm Beckerman Lender Jewish Community Building 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge What does it mean to inherit a history you never personally lived through, yet still carry every day? On Tuesday, June 16 at 7 PM, join us at […]
Woodbridge, CT 06525 United States
The New Haven Shtetl: Immigration, Enterprise, and Jewish Life & JHSGNH Membership Meeting
Centered around Oak Street/Legion Avenue, this bustling immigrant neighborhood was home to generations of Jewish families who built bakeries, grocery stores, tailor shops, synagogues, landsmanshaftn, and community institutions within walking […]
New Haven, CT 06511
Past Events
Summer Used Book Sale
Join us for our FINAL book sale and take home something special! We’ll have hundreds of books available, including Jewish history, theology, fiction, memoirs, children’s books, and general fiction. […]
New Haven, CT 06515
Those Who Returned and Those Who Did Not: Opening Program
The Judaic Studies Program and Buley Library are honored to present this exhibit for Southern Connecticut State University’s Holocaust Memorial. Originally titled “ne(Návraty),” the exhibit was created at the Museum […]
New Haven, CT 06515
Meeting the Moment Session 4: “Concealed”
An American-born daughter’s memoir of her Iranian-Jewish parents’ experience emigrating to the U.S. from the Iranian city of Mashhad. Location: Congregation Or Shalom Speaker: Esther Amini, author, painter, and psychoanalytic […]
Orange, CT 06477
Stories of a City: New Haven’s Jewish Writers in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Nicole Zador, archivist at the Jewish Historical Society, will present a look at New Haven’s early Jewish writers. Using books, newspaper clippings, and photographs from the archives, she’ll highlight the […]
New Haven, CT 06515
Meeting the Moment Session 3: When Moses Met Washington
250 Years of Engagement: With rising antisemitism and intense political divides, let’s explore historical moments of engagement Location: Congregation Mishkan Israel Speaker: Rabbi Charles Savenor Executive Director, Civic Spirit Full Series: $36 | […]
Hamden, CT 06517 United States
A Wonderful Struggle: New Haven Jewish Women in the Labor Movement
Teachers. Social workers. Secretaries. When we think of women in the labor movement, these occupations may not come to mind. Yet in New Haven and elsewhere, women in white-collar and […]
New Haven, CT
2026 Judith Ann Schiff Women’s History Program Film Series: Norma Rae
Saturday February 21 at 7:30 PM Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Drive, Hamden, CT (Park in South parking lot, Visitor Parking spaces) Norma Rae is a 1979 film about a southern […]
Hamden, CT 06517
Meeting the Moment Session 2: Why Not Give Palestine Back (To The Jews) Again
A History of Christian Zionism and What it Means to Israel’s Future Location: Temple Beth Sholom, Hamden Speaker: Rabbi Dan Judson Provost, Hebrew College, Newton, MA Full Series: $36 | Individual Sessions: $18 Covers admission for up to 2 household members […]
Hamden, CT 06517 United States
2026 Judith Ann Schiff Women’s History Program Film Series: 9to5 — The Story of a Movement, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel
Sunday, February 8 (snow date Sunday, February 22), 10AM - 12 noon Congregation Beth El Keser Israel, 81 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT […]
New Haven, CT 06515
2026 Judith Ann Schiff Women’s History Program Film Series: 9to5 — The Story of a Movement, New Haven Museum
Saturday February 7, 2:30 PM New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 9to5—The Story of a Movement is a documentary about the real-life 1970s Boston office workers who […]
New Haven, CT
