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Fr. Vitus Mbamalu stepped into the role of interim Catholic chaplain at the Claremont Colleges Chaplains Office on Oct. 6.

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Claremont Mosaic: Monique Saigal-Escudero: How her grandmother’s courageous act saved her from the Nazis

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Born in Paris, France in 1938, Monique Saigal-Escudero is an Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. At just three years old, during the peak of Hitler’s reign in Europe, her grandmother threw her on a train headed for a small city in Southwestern France: an act that ultimately saved her life. Her passion for storytelling would soon bring her back to this history, and once again place her grandmother’s courageousness front and center in her life.

A big building sits at the end of a very green quad.

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Brandeis Center and Anti-Defamation League sue Pomona College over antisemitism Title IV violation

By Ben Lauren 13387 Views ADL, Anti-defamation league, Anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Avis Hinkson, Brandeis Center, Divestment, G. Gabrielle Starr, Gabbi Starr, Gaza, Hate, Israel, Jewish, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews, Josh Eisenberg, Judaism, JVP, Mark Kendall, Palestine, Pdfa, Pomona College, Pomona Divest From Apartheid, SJP, Students for Justice in Palestine, Zionism, Zionist

On May 9, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced they filed a federal Title VI complaint suing Pomona College for rising campus antisemitism since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

4 loaves of freshly baked Challah ready to eat on table.

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Interfaith challah-making event braids together Muslim and Jewish students

By Niko Kay Smith 11865 Views Challah, challah making, Faith, Gaza, interfaith, Islam, Jewish, jewish students, Judaism, MSA, Muslim, nishmat, Palestine, Religion, solidarity

There are few feelings as universal as ripping into freshly baked bread, warm and fluffy right out of the oven. On the evening of Feb. 23, two dozen Muslim and Jewish students savored that pleasure together at an interfaith challah-making event co-hosted by Nishmat and the 7C Muslim Student Association (MSA). Nishmat and MSA organizers emphasized the importance of Jewish-Muslim solidarity amidst Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza.