L-S alum writes book about state s largest mass arrest amid Vietnam War turmoil
MetroWest Daily News
SUDBURY It s almost been 50 years since a band of about 200 young, fatigue-clad veterans began a three-day trek from Concord to Boston that resulted in the largest mass arrest in state history.
Calling for an end to the Vietnam War, the New England chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War marched in reverse Paul Revere s famed Midnight Ride on April 19, 1775, when he called on American colonists to rise up against their British oppressors. The path saw them beginning at the Old North Bridge in Concord, passing through the Lexington Battle Green, and through Bunker Hill, concluding with an anti-war rally at Boston Common. Some were in wheelchairs; others had lost limbs.
Dobbs Ferry, NY (PRWEB) May 12, 2021 Mercy College announces the appointment of Linda Bastone, Ph.D., as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, effective
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Professor Laura Ricciardi (Courtesy of Purchase College, SUNY)
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The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have announced that Professor Laura Ricciardi, senior Caleb Dowden, and recent alumnus William Byram 20 of Purchase College have received Fulbright U.S. Program awards.
Professor Laura Ricciardi, who is an Assistant Professor of Arts Management, has received a Fulbright Scholar award to spend the 2021-2022 academic year teaching at the University of Messina in Sicily, Italy. She will be teaching a course on comparative intellectual property and cultural heritage law and also conducting research on fascist-era monuments throughout Italy, bringing her work on the legal landscape of contested monuments in the United States into a global context.
YU Hosts Book Launch of ‘The Rabbi of Buchenwald’ By Pearl Markovitz | May 06, 2021
Praising the new publication of “The Rabbi of Buchenwald: The Life and Times of Rabbi Herschel Schacter,” Yeshiva University President Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman described the new volume as not only a history of American Jewry during the last seven decades of the 20th century, but a book of inspiration for future generations.”
The work was published with the support of the Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press and the Emil and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University.
Continuing the theme of the appropriateness of the volume being published by the Yeshiva University Press, Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University and son of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, recalled how his father would refer to YU as “our yeshiva.” Rabbi Herschel Schacter a