Yale to launch new anti-Semitism program

Published on June 20, 2011

Yale University is expected to unveil a revamped program for the study of anti-Semitism, the campus rabbi said. The Yale Daily News reported last Friday that Rabbi James Ponet sent an e-mail to undisclosed recipients saying he expected the university to announce the new program soon.

James Franco Q & A:  His Film on Tortured Gay Poet Hart Crane

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 15, 2011

Shuttering of Yale program on anti-Semitism raises hackles

Published on June 10, 2011

Did Yale's program on anti-Semitism die a natural death from lack of academic vigor, as the university says? Should it have been saved, as two major Jewish groups are arguing? Or was it killed for being politically incorrect about Muslim anti-Semitism, as alleged by others?

Yale alumnus donates $1 million to campus Chabad

Published on 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

By Peter L. Rothholz
Published on April 12, 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.