Wagner College will kick off its Jewish Culture Series on Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in Spiro 5. The series' first lecture, "American Jewish Philanthropy -- Anarchists or Visionaries: The New Jewish Philanthropists," will be led by Rabbi Abraham Unger of Congregation Ahavath Israel and Richard Marker will be the guest speaker.
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On Grymes Hill next month, every entering student at St. John's University will receive a university-issued wireless laptop computer -- a telling beginning to their college careers.
Down the road at Wagner College, freshmen will file into a history course and be introduced to the Middle Ages with a projected image: A bishop depicted on the lid of a burial vault as a skeleton ravaged by the Black Death.
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