Thursday, January 23, 2025
Members of the Ramapo community were invited to join “Considering the Past to Shape the Future: Reflections on The US and the Holocaust,” an online NJ-PBS discussion panel centered around the new documentary series “The US and the Holocaust” by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. Dr. Jacob Labendz, […]
Photo courtesy of Irving Public Library, Flickr The literary community is reeling from a bout of drama and controversy over the past few days. Some popular authors have been revealed to have expressed repulsive amounts of anti-Asian and anti-Semitic themes in their books, as well as horrifying interpersonal behaviors […]
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore, Flickr President Trump signed an executive order that banned anti-Semitism on college campuses on Wednesday. The executive order will cut federal assistance to colleges that do not take enough action to prevent discrimination against Jewish people. It will also establish Judaism as a nationality, no […]
Photo courtesy of Kirstie Boyd, Wikipedia Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has caught herself in some hot water the past few weeks, angering some who felt she showed signs of anti-Semitic views in tweets that she sent out. She has been making comments about President Trump and other politicians’ views when […]
Photo by Scott Yunker A candle-lighting vigil commemorating the 11 victims of the recent massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh was held in front of the Arch at the center of campus on Monday afternoon. Mahwah Mayor William Laforet, President Mercer and […]
