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...When problems come up, it’s good to have the foundation of a friendship to discuss matters, whether religious or political,” said Harvard Hillel’s Vice President for Community Relations Erica L. Farber...
This was not the first time that HIS and Hillel have brought their members together. Last year, leaders of Hillel and HIS realized that Yom Kippur and Ramadan would fall during the same period for the next couple of years, according to Farber. A joint breaking of the fast was organized last year as well, resulting in the creation of “Jews and Muslims,” a group of freshmen who met every week for meals in Annenberg Hall, Farber said...
...finding suggests a new way to overcome drug resistance in cancer. A scientific team led by Scott A. Armstrong, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School and an investigator at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, identified the Food and Drug Administration-approved immunosuppressant drug, rapamycin, as a therapeutic candidate for overcoming drug resistance in a form of human leukemia...
...donate the money that would have funded Jewish students’ meals to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a nonprofit that grants money to hunger-relief organizations worldwide. Harvard will donate $2.46 per participant, according to Hillel’s vice president for community relations, Erica L. Farber ’07. This is the third year Harvard Hillel has coordinated the Yom Kippur program, Farber said. She added that last year alone 320 students participated, raising nearly $800 for MAZON. HUDS has similar food donation arrangements for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the Christian...
...editors: As someone who directed the Laboratories of Environmental Toxicology and Carcinogenesis at the Children’s Cancer Research Foundation (now known as the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and was a research associate in Pathology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1960-1970, I am appalled at the controversy surrounding the investigation of Professor Chester Douglass (“HMS Defends Review of Dental School Prof,” news, Sept. 19). First of all, it surprises me that someone from the School of Dental Medicine was put in charge of such a sensitive research issue...