Selected Media Coverage

Claire Griffiths, “Author Michelle Weinfeld Reflects on Grandfather’s Holocaust Experience,” Ramapo News (10/25/2023).

Rebecca Gahtercole, “The Gross Center Invites Ann Hagedorn to Speak about New Book,” Ramapo News (10/12/2023).

“Scholarly Symposium at Ramapo’s Gross Center for Shoah Studies,” Jewish Standard (9/29/2023)

“Ramapo Holocaust Program to Receive Donation,” Jewish Standard (15 September 2023)

“Fortnite and Holocaust Education: Dr. Jacob Labendz in the New York Times,” Ramapo College Website (17 Aug. 2023)

Leah Adler, “Commemorating the Past and Writing the Next Chapter: Gross Center for Holocaust Studies Welcomes Czech Torah Scroll,” NJ Jewish News and The Jewish Standard (June 5, 2023)

NBC News Daily, “Teaching Lessons of the Holocaust as Number of Survivors Decreases,” (19 April 2023)

“Ramapo College of New Jersey Welcomes Czech-Holocaust Torah Scroll,” NJ Stage (14 April 2023)

William Jackson, “Yom HaShoah Luncheon Addresses Antisemitism,” Ramapo News (12 April 2023)

Joanne Palmer, “History and Memory, Cemeteries and Hope,” Jewish Standard (23 Feb. 2023)

“Why Many Jews in the US are Conflicted about Publicly Celebrating Hanukkah,” NPR (19 Dec. 2022)

“Ramapo College Presents a Virtual Event: Considering the Past to Shape the Future: The U.S. and the Holocaust,” New Jersey Stage (24 Nov. 2022)

William Jackson, “Kristallnacht Commemoration Shares Survivors’ Accounts in Student Project,” Ramapo News (16 Nov. 2022)

Logan Williamson, “Kristallnacht Remembrance in Mahwah to Feature Ramapo Student Research,” Patch (3 Nov. 2022)

Larry Yudelson, “And the Undergraduates Shall Teach Them,” Jewish Standard (2 Nov. 2022)

Matthew Wikfors, “Gross Center Asks, ‘Where are the Nazis’ in Russo-Ukrainian War,” Ramapo News (27 Oct. 2022)

“Rabbi Israel Dresner Memorial Library Offers Zoom Lecture Series,” Jewish Standard (13 Oct. 2022)

Larry Yudelson, “Hearing from a Ukrainian Holocaust Historian in Exile,” Jewish Standard (29 Sep. 2022)

Larry Yudelson, “Ramapo College Names Jersey Native to Head Gross Center,” Jewish Standard (27 July 2022)

“Jacob Ari Labendz Named Director of Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College,” New Jersey Stage (20 July 2022)