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At a talk on Thursday evening, Gloria Feldt discussed the societal progress in gender equality and women’s rights that occurred over the course of her career.
In an upcoming talk postponed since March due to weather, Gloria Feldt, former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, will address her advocacy work throughout her career and share the personal impact of her Jewish values.
A Cornell professor and Holocaust survivor shared his story of survival during World War II in a ceremony on Wednesday that commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day. The ceremony, which featured the lighting of six candles to remember the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, was hosted by Cornell Jewish Studies and the Hillel Cultural Programming Committee. Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, recounted how his family was captured by the Nazis, went into hiding and eventually regained freedom in a period of three years. “First of all, I am here,” Hoffmann said, pointing out that it is already remarkable that he survived the Holocaust and could be present for the Cornell event. Born to a Polish Jewish family in 1937, Hoffmann described his journey from growing up in the bloodlands of Nazi-occupied Poland to becoming a Harvard graduate and a world-renowned chemist.
Ruth Messinger argued that “justice must not only be the end goal, but it also must be the means by which the work is done.”
Cornell Hillel is sponsoring a talk with Gloria Feldt, the former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood. The talk will take place on March 7 at 6 p.m.
TED Talks founder and creator Richard Saul Wurman shared his thoughts on design while jumping from topic to topic, using anecdotes and metaphors to address innovation.
The students’ event at 4:30 on Wednesday, when organizers hope to be joined by University faculty and administrators, is in response to the plastering of anti-Semitic posters.
This novel structure was constructed to unite the Cornell community in celebrating the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Now a critic of ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Judaism, Deen detailed his experience growing up in the insular Skverer Hasidic village of New Square.
Josh Radnor unpacked his journey to his career in theater in front of a full Statler Auditorium Wednesday night.