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"The play featured scenes that represented the most horrifying and disturbingly common aspects of the genocide." - Managing Editor / Abigail Twiford

Holocaust resonance: Unveiling the powerful narrative of “Five Survivors Tell the World”

Abigail Twiford November 15, 2023

Five Survivors Tell the World is a play about five young Jewish women who survived the horrors of several different concentration camps during the Holocaust. The play was written and directed by Anthony...

Students created the Star of David out of candles over the Rowan torch seal in support of the lives that have been lost to acts of terrorism. - Co-News Editor / Gianna Malgieri

Rowan students attend rally to support those in Israel

Gianna Malgieri and Brendan Cohen October 11, 2023

As a reaction to Saturday’s attack on scores of Israeli civilians near the Gaza Strip by the terrorist group Hamas, Rowan's chapter of Chabad, a world-renowned Jewish organization, created a “rally...

This editorial discusses the SGA's adherence to bylaws. Photo via Rowan SGA.

EDITORIAL: SGA and a Culture of Accountability

The Whit Staff September 22, 2022

While the Student Government Association (SGA) governs us, their bylaws govern them, thus creating a perfect balance in which we elect students into positions of power and that power receives a series...

Former SGA President Arielle Gedeon delegates votes with SGA Senate. - Former News Editor / Alexander Helle

Letter to the Editor: Alumni Concerns About SGA Conduct

Letter to the Editor September 21, 2022

Dear Editor, For someone like me, a 2021 alumnus of Rowan who spent the majority of his college career in a battle to lobby SGA, to cease holding meetings on major religious holidays, the events of...

This year's Rowan Hillel organization posed for a photo for the "Welcome Back BBQ" event that happened earlier this year. - Photo via Instagram (@rowanhillel)

Rowan Hillel Discusses History and Celebrations of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Alexandra Herschman September 8, 2021

Earlier this week, the Rowan Jewish community celebrated Rosh Hashanah through live-streamed services and a traditional dinner. Though COVID-19 proved to be difficult in terms of having in-person gatherings,...

Kristallnacht was a horrifically brutal attack on the Jewish community in 1938. Rossen discusses how its impacts are still present in the minds of the Jewish people 82 years later. - Multimedia Editor / Alexander Rossen (photo taken during Rossen's trip to Germany)

Rossen: Living in the Shadow of Kristallnacht, Transgenerational Memory and Tikkun Olam

Alex Rossen November 7, 2020

Editor's Note: This opinion article contains descriptions of violent acts committed during the Holocaust, which may be distressing for some readers. What does it mean to remember something that never...

Students from the Jewish community gather outside the student center to light the menorah in celebration of Hanukkah. - File photo / Alex Heller

Rowan students gather to celebrate Hanukkah

Alexander Heller December 12, 2018

Hope, peace and love. Those were the points that Rabbi Hersh Loschak focused on as all three Jewish clubs at Rowan University braved a bitter cold night to celebrate the eight day festival of lights,...

Alice Kraus speaks on her experience of Kristallnacht as a survivor. Staff Writer/ Lindsey D’Ambrosio

Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

Lindsey D'Ambrosio November 14, 2018

In the Student Center’s Owl’s Nest, professors, students and Glassboro residents gathered to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht, which stands for the Day of Broken Glass,...

Rowan students join in solidarity of the Jewish Community after the shooting in Pittsburgh in October 2018. - File Photo / Miguel Martinez

Candlelight vigil held on Rowan’s campus in solidarity with Jewish community

Grace Clevenger October 31, 2018

On Saturday, Oct. 27, suspect Robert Bowers opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people. To remember and to bring attention to this event, Chabad, Hillel and Alpha Epsilon...

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