• Sunday, the 24th of February 2008, at 6:00 p.m., at Bar-Ilan University (The Gerson and Judith Lieber Jewish Art Exhibition Center, Building 410) – the opening of the photo-documentary exhibition called Colours of Time: Art of Moldavian Synagogues, by the journalist and photographer Teodor Răileanu; project coordinator, Dr Ilia Rodov, Department of Jewish Art, Bar Ilan University
• Sunday, the 24th of February 2008, at 6:30 p.m., at Bar-Ilan University (Building 410, Back Auditorium) – opening ceremony of the international conference Art and Achitecure of the Romanian Synagogues, in the presence of H.E. Edward Iosiper, the Ambassador of Romania in Israel, and of Mrs. Colette Avital, Knesset Member; opening lecture entitled Hassidism in Moldavia offered by Prof. Moshe Idel (Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem);
The event is organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, in partnership with the Department of Jewish Art and the Department of Multidisciplinary Jewish Studies within the Bar-Ilan University.
