Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Hackney's nomination. Israeli-born freshman Eden Jacobowitz was charged with racial harassment and threatened with probation for yelling, "Shut up, you water buffalo!" at a group of boisterous black women students outside his dorm. He denied any bigotry in the odd epithet, pointing out that it is Hebrew slang for an inconsiderate fool. On May 24, as the campus churned over the controversy, the women dropped the charges, but only after blasting the school for injustice...
...Hebrew University of Jersualem professor Shmuel N. Eisenstadt...
Eisenstadt was born in Warsaw, Poland, on September 10, 1923. He was a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for half a century and chaired its Department of Sociology from 1951 to 1969. His research has concentrated on the study of historical sociology and the comparative study of civilizations...
Milan G. Chheda '93, a Physics concentrator who will spend the next year at Hebrew University in Jerusalem on the Wallenberg fellowship, plans to study government and work on a human rights project. "Israel seemed cool just because of the history the whole area has," he says. "I thought it would be cool just to go far away...
...Rochelle Mirsky Cohen says commuters missed many of the privileges residents enjoyed. "If you didn't live in the dormitories, you really had very little association with most of the student body," says Cohen, who commuted every day from home to Radcliffe and to the Boston Hebrew College...