Anti-Domestic Violence Rally Receives Extensive Coverage; Art & Music Events in the Jewish Ledger

A rally at the State Capitol on Valentine's Day, to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of University of Hartford graduate student Tiana Notice '07 and to call for action on domestic violence issues, was the subject of numerous stories in local newspapers, such as the Hartford Courant and the Bristol Press. Television stations Fox 61, WFSB-TV Channel 3, and WTNH-TV Channel 8  also covered the rally. The stories noted the role that University students and faculty played in putting the rally together.   

"Faces of a Nation," a new photography exhibition that opened at the University's Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization on Feb. 14, was highlighted in an article and slideshow in the Feb. 11 edition of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. The exhibition came about after Richard Freund, professor and director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, asked West Hartford photographer Lena Stein to take part in the University's 2009 Bethsaida Excavations  program in Israel. Stein worked closely with Maha Darawsha, a University of Hartford faculty member in archaeology and Arabic language and culture, visiting Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Druze, and Bedouin communities in Israel as part of the Greenberg Center's summer program. See the article and some of Stein's photographs at jewishledger.com.

The Jewish Ledger also previewed the showing of the 1922 silent film Hungry Hearts as part of the Hartford Jewish Film Festival on Tuesday, March 23, at 7 p.m. The film will include an original score composed by students at The Hartt School and performed live by Hartt students. Restored by the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University in 2006, the film is a Hollywood adaptation of the short stories of Anzia Yezierska about an immigrant family living on New York's Lower East Side. Find out more at jewishledger.com.