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Harold Bloom (Screencapture/YouTube)
October 15, 2019, 12:33 am
Renowned American Jewish literary critic Harold Bloom dies at 89
Yale professor and author of 20 books, including his breakthrough ‘The Anxiety of Influence,’ was son of immigrants from Russia, neither of whom ever learned to read English
By Hillel Italie
Under the Yale Art Building Venetian Style Bridge, crossing High St in New Haven, Connecticut, February 10, 2009 (Getty Images via JTA)
September 14, 2019, 7:33 am
Yale launches Holocaust survivors podcast
Series launches with Martin Schiller describing his experiences in the concentration and slave labor camps of Plaszow, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt
By Cnaan Liphshiz
During the 1930s in Yaphank, New York, members of the Nazi party march through the Long Island town, where they also organized a pro-Hitler summer camp (Public domain)
August 13, 2017, 11:29 am
American laws against ‘coloreds’ influenced Nazi racial planners
With neo-Nazis and white supremacists violently protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia, echoes of the country’s awkward history of ties to Nazism
By Matt Lebovic
Rabbi Daniel Greer (JTA/YouTube screenshot)
May 20, 2017, 3:07 am
Prominent Connecticut rabbi to pay $20m. for alleged sex abuse
Jury order comes following civil lawsuit in which yeshiva student claimed to have been molested, raped by Daniel Greer over a period of 3 years
By JTA
Kelly Watson from the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights sits in a classroom of Cambodian history teachers she is teaching the Holocaust to in October 2016. (courtesy Ouch Makara/Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives)
January 9, 2017, 4:09 am
Through studying the Holocaust, Cambodians deal with own genocide
In a meeting of minds, a small town Indiana teacher and a Cambodian scholar documenting the Khmer Rogue atrocities create a workshop for comparative genocide education in Battambang
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A page from the mysterious Voynich manuscript, which is undeciphered to this day. (Wikimedia Commons, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)
August 21, 2016, 2:38 pm
Ancient mystery text nobody’s deciphered set for publication
Voynich Manuscript, purchased 100 years ago from a collection of books belonging to Jesuits in Italy and held today in a Yale library, believed by some to hold secrets of eternal life and by others to be an elaborate joke
By Marianne Barriaux
Jewish literary scholar Geoffrey Hartman (YouTube screenshot)
From the WebMarch 20, 2016, 9:12 pm
Jewish literary critic Geoffrey H. Hartman dies at 86
German-born WWII survivor directed Yale video archive for Holocaust testimonies, wrote on Jewish texts and other subjects, The New York Times reports
A 'dopamine movie' (screenshot)
February 18, 2016, 7:11 pm
‘Brain movies’ show nicotine affects men and women differently
Innovative research being done in Israel demonstrates, on film, how short-term bursts of brain activity are prompted by stimulants
By David Shamah
Yale University campus (CC BY-Poldavo/Flickr)
December 18, 2015, 5:07 am
7 revealing facts about Jews at American colleges
University of Florida has largest Jewish population, and school in Canada with the most Jews has the motto ‘All things cohere in Christ’
By Gabe Friedman
Harvard University (Shutterstock)
November 4, 2015, 2:35 am
Harvard starting Jewish and Israeli law program
As part of new track, university set to bring in visiting scholars, offer courses, and host annual conference
By JTA
Princeton University (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wdwdbot)
August 28, 2015, 5:13 am
Princeton University to install ‘eruv’ on campus
500 of the school’s 5,000 undergraduates and 200 of its 2,000 graduate students are Jewish
By JTA
January 15, 2015, 5:22 am
Yale’s ‘Jewish Lives’ series wins National Jewish Book Award
Set of short biographies takes home prize awarded by Jewish Book Council
By JTA
An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)
October 15, 2014, 4:39 pm
No leads after swastikas drawn on Yale dormitory steps
Last month, two swastikas were discovered in a lecture hall at the university
By JTA
Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)
October 8, 2014, 5:18 pm
1,200 academics sign anti-boycott petition
Move comes in response to statement by over 360 anthropologists urging sanctions against Israeli academic institutions
By TOI staff
Harvard University (Shutterstock)
October 3, 2014, 8:36 pm
Columbia, Harvard, Yale anthropologists among 360 backing boycott of Israel
Signatories worldwide include 13 academics from City University of New York, 13 from Columbia, 9 from Harvard and 8 from Yale
By JTA
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