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The Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life in North Wales, Pennsylvania, is named in honor of the couple. [15] In the late 1990s, Abramson sued Inside Edition for invading his privacy when the news show covertly videotaped him and his family at their Jupiter, Florida, home, as part of an exposé on the lifestyles of wealthy HMO ...
Last week, I sat in Yale University’s Beinecke Plaza leading around 50 classmates in nigunim — wordless melodies from the Jewish Hasidic tradition — and other Jewish songs and prayers.
Founded in 1996 by graduate students Ben Karp, Noah Feldman, Michael Alexander, future senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker, and Rabbi Shmully Hecht, the society was formed to bring together Jewish and non-Jewish leaders on Yale's campus in an intellectual salon setting influenced by secular and religious branches of Judaism. [3]
Jewish Lives is a biography series published by Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation. It was founded in 2006 and the first book was published in 2010. [1]The series explores the lives of influential Jews from antiquity through the present, including Moses, Albert Einstein, Louis D. Brandeis, Barbra Streisand, David Ben-Gurion, Emma Goldman, and more.
The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA) is an interdisciplinary center at Yale University devoted to the academic study of historical and contemporary antisemitism. Housed within the Whitney Humanities Center , YPSA sponsors lectures and conferences, produces videos, and provides research grants to Yale faculty and students.
“The placement of a Palestinian flag on the menorah conveys a deeply antisemitic message to Jewish residents of New Haven, including members of the Yale community,” the school said.
Israeli Harvard student Matan Yaffe talked to Fox News Digital about one his professors allegedly telling Israeli students that a Jewish democracy was akin to "White supremacy."
Founded in 2006, it was the first university-based center in North America dedicated to the study of antisemitism. Professor Charles A. Small was YIISA's inaugural director. In 2011, Yale's decision to close YIISA sparked protest from the American Jewish community.