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

The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern

Students on the NU Perspectives trip walk through the streets of Old Jaffa, Israel. Students were able to engage with both Israelis and Palestinians this summer through the Northwestern Hillel offering.

In God we trust?: Jewish students’ relationships to Israel, like the country itself, are complicated

February 4, 2019

This article is the second in a series on religious involvement on Northwestern’s campus. In the midst of studies showing declining levels of religiosity among college students, the series will spotlight...

Northwestern Hillel has asked for additional patrols after a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend.

Northwestern, Evanston police increase patrol near Jewish institutions

November 1, 2018

Local police are stepping up safety patrols around the city’s Jewish institutions after a gunman shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire in a synagogue last weekend, rattling the nation’s Jewish community....

Students and residents gather at The Rock. Hundreds of students with different religious faiths came together the mourn the loss of 11 lives in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

Hundreds gather at vigil, mourn victims of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

October 30, 2018

Students and Evanston residents of various religious backgrounds came together in unity at Monday’s candle-lit vigil to honor the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday. At the vigil,...

Students walk through campus for the annual Walk to Remember. The Thursday event was hosted by Alpha Epsilon Pi in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

NU community gathers to walk for Holocaust Remembrance Day

April 12, 2018

About 50 students and community members gathered at The Rock on Thursday afternoon to participate in a walk and memorial for Holocaust Remembrance Day. The annual Walk to Remember, which is hosted...

Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, speaks to students at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum on Thursday. Lipstadt explained the motivating factors behind Holocaust denial and detailed her own legal battle with Holocaust denier David Irving.

Historian Deborah Lipstadt speaks about Holocaust denial, alternative facts

May 5, 2017

Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt explained the dangers of Holocaust denial and encouraged students to combat “alternative facts” during a talk Thursday. About 150 people gathered at the McCormick...

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