Hillel at Ithaca College hosted a card-writing event April 24 for 100-year-old Holocaust survivor and educator Judith Altmann. Altmann was originally scheduled to speak via Zoom for Yom HaShoah, the Israeli Holocaust memorial day, but the event was changed due to Altmann being hospitalized for heart failure. 

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, students and guests gathered in Emerson Suites and heard from Jewish Holocaust survivor Samuel Rind on Feb. 1.  The Ithaca College Student Leadership Institute and Ithaca College Hillel brought in Rind to share his personal story in relation to the Holocaust. Rind, who visited and spoke to students at the college in 2017, is a regular speaker on college campuses and across the Western New York area. 

Eight swastikas in 2022. Even one is too many, but eight swastikas have been found on Ithaca College’s campus since the beginning of the calendar year. This behavior is unacceptable and cannot be tole