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Hesburgh Library celebrates 60th anniversary

More than 60 years ago, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., dreamed of a new library building that would serve, along with the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and the Main Building,...

Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room blessed, dedicated during weekend ceremony

The Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room, the newest Hesburgh Library space to undergo a dramatic redesign, is open for students and faculty thanks to a generous gift...

Rose Wollman, viola and Dror Baitel, piano

Join violist Rose Wollman and pianist Dror Baitel for an evening celebrating the diversity of women’s voices in the 20th and 21st century. Works by Rebecca Clarke, Florence...

Encountering the Other and Working for All

Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg shares the story of her childhood, and how it informs the work she does to bring equality to all Israeli citizens through the New Israel Fund in this...

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Meet the Speaker: Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg

Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg is the Associate Director at NIF (New Israel Fund) Israel and Director of the Development and International Relations Department. She previously...

Recommended Reading

Richard Rothstein recommends reading the following if you would like to know more: Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, Conor Dougherty Sundown Towns, James Loewen...

Meet the Speaker: Richard Rothstein

Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He...

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Fukushima – Resilience, Recovery, and Redemption

On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima coastline in eastern Japan experienced a devastating triple disaster. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake, so strong that it shifted the earth’s axis,...

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary Podcast: Housing Segregation

The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference?One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality...

Jerusalem TalksND Episode 3: Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg

In episode three, Avrum Burg and Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg reflect on the evolution of Judaism within their family over the last few generations, and where in a contested city...