Over 200 Participated in Buffalo Day of Jewish Learning

BY PROF. ALEX GREEN

Over 200 participants from all across the Buffalo Jewish community participated in the second annual Buffalo Day of Jewish Learning on Sunday, March 12 at the Benderson Jewish Community Center. Some of the highlights included a conversation with Ronnie Marmo, who was the star of the JRT show “I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce”; a Lifetime Achievement Award for Prof. Gerhard Falk; and The Inaugural Rabbi Heschel Greenberg Lecture. Prof. Falk is a former professor at Buffalo State University, who taught criminology, sociology of religion, juvenile delinquency, and the treatment of offenders until his retirement in late 2016. Rabbi Heschel Greenberg is the Director of the Jewish Discovery Center and Senior

Lecturer at the Institute of Jewish Studies. He is celebrating fifty years as a rabbi in Buffalo.

Attendees also had the opportunity to peruse the exhibit “An East Side Story: Harold Arlen’s Buffalo Roots” curated by Dr. Chana Revell Kotzin and view the artwork created by students at the Community Religious School, Kadimah Scholars at Park School and Ohr Temimim in the JCC Bunis Gallery. Many thanks to the Amherst Memorial Chapel, Buffalo

Jewish Federation, Hillel of Buffalo, the UB College of Arts and Sciences for sponsoring this event, and to the Community Religious School, Kadimah Scholars at Park School and Rabbi Daniel and Chaya Shuman for sponsoring sessions.

Prof. Alex Green is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at SUNY, University at Buffalo, where he serves as the Buffalo Community Jewish Educator.