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Rabbi Abraham Skorka for Georgetown University: “When a Friend Leaves: A Statement from Rabbi Abraham Skorka on the Passing of Pope Francis”
Rabbi Abraham Skorka is senior research fellow for Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations at Georgetown and was a longtime friend of Pope Francis. In this first-person…
April 25, 2025
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Father Patrick Desbois for New York Post: “We’re running out of time to identify Holocaust victims and villains — and rising antisemitism makes cracking ‘cold cases’ more urgent than ever”
On a research trip to investigate Holocaust killing sites in Ukraine, I met an elderly couple in a village who lived there when its Jews were.…
April 24, 2025
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Director Jonathan Lincoln for World Politics Review: Despite Their Deteriorated Relations, Israel Still Needs the U.N.
Among the fallout from Hamas’ attack against Israel on Oct. 7 and the subsequent war in Gaza has been an unprecedented deterioration in relations between Israel and the United…
April 11, 2025
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Professor Andrej Umansky Quoted in the Washington Post: Irmgard Furchner, German secretary convicted of Nazi crimes, dies at 99
Andrej Umansky, a German lawyer and professor of Holocaust studies at Georgetown University, said in an interview that the importance of trials such as Ms. Furchner’s extends…
April 10, 2025
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Ambassador Dennis Ross for Foreign Policy: It’s Time for Trump to Get Tough With Putin
Only pressure on both sides will end the war in.…
April 1, 2025
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SFS Students Go Global Over Spring Break
At SFS, students don’t just study global issues—they actively engage with them through experiential learning. International experiences are a hallmark of an SFS international…
March 27, 2025
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Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware are awarded the Airey Neave Book Prize for their book “God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America”
The Airey Neave Trust is pleased to announce the winner of the fifth Airey Neave Book Prize is God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America by Bruce Hoffman and Jacob…
March 27, 2025
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Our Enduring Values – A message from the Office of the President
A message to the Georgetown Community from the Office of the.…
March 25, 2025
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Professor Diana Dumitru awarded honorable mention for the 2024 Stanley Z. Pech Prize awarded by the Czechoslovak Studies Association
Undone from Within” offers a comprehensively innovative analysis of the events that led to the 1952 trial of Rudolf Slánský trial and his thirteen co-defendants. Mining an…
March 24, 2025
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Professor Jessica Roda for Frieda Vizel: “For women, girls, AND men and boys”
In this long form discussion we talk about what’s happening in the scene of Orthodox Jewish women’s performances. Because of modesty rules, women are not allowed to…
March 24, 2025