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...won’t go to make Judaism acceptable,” he says. “We try to come to [Jewish students].” Chabad’s method of making its presence known was a draw for faculty adviser Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz. “I very much like their proselytizing tactics, as a First Amendment advocate,” Dershowitz wrote in a 2003 book about Chabad, “The Rebbe’s Army.” “I think it’s great that they...
...Wisse. “Is it one of the factors at play? Yes. Is it the factor at play? No.”Wisse’s comments are blunt, but critics allege that other supporters are being ambiguous.“Along with [Frankfurter Professor of Law] Alan Dershowitz, [Glimp Professor of Economics Edward L.] Glaeser now becomes the second Harvard professor strongly suggesting that Summers’ critics are anti-Semitic,” blogger Richard Bradley writes. “Neither man has come out and said so explicitly, but they’re inching...
Early in the meeting, Schmid read a statement chastising his colleagues for departing from “norms of civility” in recent weeks. “Most disturbingly, [economist] Edward Glaeser, [law professor] Alan Dershowitz, and Ruth Wisse have insinuated anti-Semitism,” Schmid said, according to a copy of his remarks that he gave to The Crimson...
...parliament.” Arguing from the same viewpoint, The Washington Post wrote that Summers “refused to rubber-stamp appointees chosen by the faculties, blocking candidates who seemed insufficiently distinguished and pressing for diversity in political outlook.” Opinion columns by Summers supporters Alan Dershowitz, who is Frankfurter professor of law, and New Republic Editor-in-Chief and Harvard lecturer Martin Peretz agreed. Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth Wisse questioned whether Summers’ resignation was due to anti-Semitism...
...Dershowitz said that Summers’ speech on divestment from Israel was “among the three or four original reasons” that emboldened the president’s critics on the Faculty. But, he said, “I do not believe that that was anti-Semitic, and indeed, a lot of the strongest opponents of Summers are Jews...