Word: chabad
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Sandel spoke briefly about candles and light as symbols of illumination and education before he and Summers lit the first candle with Harvard Chabad House founder Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi...
Snow flurries fell yesterday as former University President Lawrence H. Summers and Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel raised a candle together to light a menorah on the first day of Hanukkah. About 35 students gathered in front of Widener Library at the ceremony organized by the Chabad House at Harvard, waiting as wind threatened to blow out the candles...
Despite the cold, students milled about after the ceremony to take photos with Summers and Sandel and help themselves to free menorahs, chocolate coins, and dreidels handed out by Chabad. A few students broke into an impromptu chorus of a Hanukkah song...
...tradition that began eight years ago, Summers and Sandel were the first in a series of Jewish professors who have been invited to light the menorah each day over the coming week, said Dana A. Stern ’09, vice president of Chabad and head of Harvard Students for Israel...
...visit has also sparked uproar at Harvard. Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, who opposes Khatami’s visit, told the Boston Herald that he had received e-mails and phone calls from offended alumni and students all over the world...