Tag: jewish history
Author sees similarities between Nazi-occupied France and the U.S. today
The University of La Verne hosted its annual Kristallnacht remembrance lecture on the 87th anniversary of the event Sunday in the Abraham Campus Center Ballroom before an audience of roughly 100.
Annual Passover Seder brings remembrance
Cantor Paul Buch from Temple Beth Israel in Pomona leads the Karpas step of the University of La Verne’s Passover Seder at the Campus Center Ballroom on Wednesday.
University marks horrific anniversary
The University of La Verne and the Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys co-hosted the 14th annual Kristallnacht Remembrance Lecture on Sunday in the Morgan Auditorium before an audience of roughly 60 community members.
Letters recall Kristallnacht stories
The University of La Verne hosted its annual Kristallnacht Remembrance Lecture featuring author Steven Wasserman speaking about his book, “Grasping at Straws: Letters from the Holocaust,” Sunday in the Campus Center Ballroom.
Seder celebrates Jewish liberation
After a two-year absence, the University of La Verne once again held its annual Passover Seder on Wednesday, hosted by the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life and Hillel, a Jewish club on campus.
Dynamic Jewish life sculptures donated to the University of La Verne
The Cultural and Natural History Collections of the University of La Verne received a glimpse of Jewish life and culture pre-World War II through 14 folk-art sculptures, donated by the Malgert Halpern and Irving Cohen family.