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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Author and Holocaust survivor Ava Kadishson Schieber speaks at Fiedler Hillel about her new book, “Present Past.” Schieber launched the collection of stories, artwork and poetry that describe her life after the Holocaust at an event  Sunday.

Holocaust survivor discusses new book on life after war at Fiedler Hillel

October 16, 2016

Author and artist Ava Kadishson Schieber’s first painting after surviving the Holocaust was of a whirlpool. “If I could paint it out, I could face it,” Schieber told The Daily. “That was how...

Jessica Kingsdale

Northwestern alumna to appear in play about Holocaust survivors

April 21, 2016

A&E Jessica Kingsdale (Communication ‘11),  who had extended relatives who died during the Holocaust, said the story of the tragedy is twofold: the atrocities people faced during the war and the...

Bannister: The US must accept more Syrian refugees

Bannister: The US must accept more Syrian refugees

October 23, 2015

In the spring of 1939, the ocean liner St. Louis set sail from the port of Hamburg in Northern Germany. On it were more than 900 Jewish passengers, fleeing persecution and imminent war in their home country....

Joshua Harmon

NU alum’s play ‘Bad Jews’ to be extended until December

October 21, 2015

A&E Northwestern alumnus Joshua Harmon (Weinberg ‘05) didn’t expect his play “Bad Jews,” a comedy about two cousins fighting over a family heirloom, to run as long as it has. “I wrote...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) speaks Wednesday to more than 100 people at Northwestern’s School of Law in Chicago. The senator called on law students to support a human rights bill he plans to introduce to Congress.

Durbin seeks support from Northwestern law students for new human rights bill

April 8, 2015

CHICAGO — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday he would introduce to Congress a law that would allow the U.S. government to prosecute people who commit international crimes against humanity — and...

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