Nancy Harrowitz News Today

After Republicans grilled three university presidents on Capitol Hill, experts weigh in on the broader implications for public opinion and the politics of colleges and universities. The failure of three college presidents to clearly say Tuesday that calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated their campus policies quickly went viral on social media—galling alumni, free speech experts and

In an official statement on October 10, BU leaders condemned the violence in Israel, while leaders of Israeli and Palestinian student groups spoke out.

As a teacher, he was uniquely compelling and continues to inspire through The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.

From the blog of Deborah Katchko-Gray at The Times of Israel

Nancy Harrowitz, director of BU’s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, explains why a proposed Holocaust museum should be approved.

How colleges in Massachusetts and New Hampshire are developing new expertise on war crimes and genocide studies.

A new interdisciplinary major in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at BU will ask students to dig deep into those cataclysmic events.