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Swastikas drawn on Yale dorm steps

Jewish Journal October 15, 2014

Swastikas were drawn in chalk on the steps of a Yale University dormitory.

In Brussels, a tragic note to a Jewish student singing tour

Jewish Journal May 29, 2014

Moments before they were scheduled to start singing at an impromptu memorial vigil outside the Jewish Museum of Belgium, the 13 members of Yale University’s Jewish a cappella group were still unsure what number to perform.

Most depressing brain finding ever

Marty Kaplan September 16, 2013

Yale law school professor Dan Kahan’s new research paper is called “Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government,” but for me a better title is the headline on science writer Chris Mooney’s piece about it in Grist: “Science Confirms: Politics Wrecks Your Ability to Do Math.”

Yale alumnus donates $1 million to campus Chabad

Jewish Journal January 19, 2011

A Yale University alumnus has donated $1 million to the campus Chabad House. Brad Berger, a private investor from Los Angeles who graduated from the university in 1977, made his pledge to the $6 million capital campaign on Sunday, the Yale Daily News reported Tuesday. The building when it reopens in 2012 will be called the Berger Family Building, according to the newspaper.

Fortunoff Archive preserves Holocaust testimonies

Peter L. Rothholz April 13, 2007

In the 1980s, Geoffrey Hartman helped establish the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, a Yale-based collection of videotaped Holocaust testimonies he continues to head. The archive preceded Spielberg\’s Shoah Visual History Foundation by more than a decade.