Claremont Hillel hosted Rom El-Hai, a survivor of the Hamas-led attack on the Nova Music Festival, for a memorial service on Thursday to mark the three-year anniversary of Oct. 7. El-Hai spoke about his experience during and after the attacks to a group of around 30 5C students and community members on Oct. 8 at the Hillel house.
Tag: Madeleine Farr
Meet TSL’s fall 2026 editorial board
Claire Welch SC ’27, Madeleine Farr PZ ’27 and Nadia Hsu PO ’27 are taking the reins as TSL’s editorial board this semester.
The three have big plans to revitalize key parts of the newspaper: they launched new journalism ethics workshops, prioritized training for TSL staff by pushing the regular publication cycle back by one week and brought back a pre-COVID-19 tradition of publishing an “Issue 0.”
OPINION: The anonymity epidemic rages on
In Trump’s America, the declining power of the media goes beyond pulled punches and undeserved praise intended to curry favor. Deportations, office raids and First Amendment suppression of journalists and activists is becoming the new norm. The brave response to intimidation, however, is not submission. Madeleine Farr PZ ’27 believes that for those with privilege, which includes most 5C students, our responsibility is to use our First Amendment rights to support the journalistic institutions that can speak truth to power. Therefore, we need to consent to interviews.
Pomona College to investigate disruption at Hillel memorial event
Pomona’s President’s Office informed the school community via email this morning that four masked individuals disrupted a Hillel memorial.