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...Justin Danilewitz...
...article in Commentary magazine, Justin C. Danilewitz '99 alleges that The Crimson's efforts to diversify its editorial board have resulted in anti-Jewish practices. Danilewitz had applied for but was denied a position on The Crimson's editorial board...
...true, as Danilewitz points out, that we dismissed one conservative Jewish columnist. But this student's dismissal had nothing to do with either his religion or his political views; he was let go because, having written for two years, he was no longer offering our readers a fresh perspective...
...point, Danilewitz is correct. Both of us have a strong commitment to diversifying The Crimson's editorial page. As Danilewitz noted, we pointed in our position papers to the fact that 80 percent of the columnists last year were Jewish as evidence that The Crimson's editorial page did not adequately reflect the diversity of opinion on campus. But Danilewitz fails to mention that we also pointed to the fact that the number of columnists who were female, non-white or science majors...
...interest is not in excluding anyone, but in including as many different perspectives as we can. We disagree with Danilewitz's assumption that this effort makes us bad Jews. In fact, we believe Judaism is commensurate with the values of inclusion, expression and understanding which we hold dear. Editorial Chairs