Dr. Clement A. Price to Speak at Temple B'nai Abraham

Temple B'nai Abraham Kabbalat Shabbat Dinner & Speaker 
The speaker for the Temple B'nai Abraham  Sisterhood-sponsored Kabbalat Shabbat dinner and speaker on Friday, December 6, 2013, 7:30 PM, will be Dr. Clement A. Price, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History and Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers Newark College of RTS & Sciences University College, Newark. Preceding the dinner and speaker, Kabbalat Shabbat Services will be held at 6:30 PM. 

Join your friends for a delicious dinner, good conversation and a stimulating presentation by an Award-winning author and other engaging speakers.$25 per person, per event,  ($20 in advance.) 

Clement Price, Newark’s foremost historian and a leading chronicler of American urban life, will consider Newark’s past, viewed by many with nostalgia and affection, in an effort to understand where history and collective memory diverge.  He will also explore if, from what we learn, we can envision the future of a post-Booker Newark. His topic will be Newark Through the Rear View Mirror: The Memory vs the Reality of an American City.

Price is a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor at Rutgers, one of the highest faculty honors at the university. The latter honor noted Price’s dedication “to the ideas of community, and his sustained impact on the development of cultural, civic, educational and academic institutions in the City of Newark and the State of New Jersey” and his “unwavering commitment to the communities in which he lives, and his concern for social justice.”

Dr. Price is the foremost authority on the black New Jersey past by virtue of his Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey (1980) and numerous other scholarly works. He has been the recipient of many awards for academic and community service, including: The New Jersey Nets Basketball Black History Month award at the Prudential Arena in Newark, New Jersey, February, 2011; the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award from Essex County in February, 2010; a Lifetime Achievement Award from Local Initiatives Support Corporation, (LISC) New Jersey in November, 2008; and New Jersey Professor of the Year by The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in 1999. In 2006, he was inducted into the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni.

Please make your reservations online or call the temple 973.994.2290. Bring your friends, your family and your teens to hear this inspiring speaker.