Thursday, April 24, 2025
Ramapo’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) continued its Open Classroom Series with an “Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Germany” lecture on Friday. The lecture was hosted by CHGS Director Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz and guest speaker Dr. Armin Langer. Langer, scholar and professor of European studies at the […]
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) and Dr. Jacob Labendz hosted Dr. Anna Hájková’s talk titled “Why We Need an LGBT History of the Holocaust: The Romeo and Juliet of Wartime Prague” on Nov. 7 in Trustees Pavilion. CHGS’s mission, according to their website, is to “assist students, […]
The Holocaust was a mass genocide during World War II that targeted individuals based on religious identity, ethnicity, sexuality, disabilities or political orientations. Led by German dictator Adolf Hitler, the Nazi campaign was based on the creation of a supposed “pure race.” The Holocaust Encyclopedia, as organized by the […]
Kanye West has secured another No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 with “Carnival,” a single off of his “Vultures 1” album, released last month with Ty Dolla $ign. This is West’s first No. 1 hit since his infamous antisemitic controversy in 2022, where he tweeted about going “def […]
The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies hosted a talk titled “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Antisemitism” last Wednesday. This talk was one of the five-part webinar series of talks on the relationship between antisemitism and artificial intelligence (AI). The talk featured author and talk show host Edwin Black who […]
Social media posts on the Facebook page of a Ramapo College professor – that some groups have branded as antisemitic – are being investigated by the college. In particular, the repost of a political cartoon about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that appeared on the Facebook page of associate professor of post […]
On Monday, Dr. Jacob Labendz hosted a free kosher lunch with faculty and students, where past and modern antisemitism was discussed at great length in a question-and-answer format. “Discussion of Contemporary Antisemitism: Hillel and the Gross Center for Yom HaShoah” addressed a variety of topics, ranging from how Ramapo has […]
