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...service. Aaron K. Harris ’06 said that the speech was “hilarious” and that it “hit the right notes.” The service began with the traditional procession of seniors into Memorial Church from the Yard. Readings from Hebrew and Hindu scriptures as well as the Qur’an and the New Testament were read in both their original languages and in English. The origins of the Baccalaureate service are unclear. Columbia and Dartmouth both say on their websites that the ceremony began at Oxford University...
...Hebrew, “chai” means life, and for the Harvard Business School classmates and professors of Avichai “Avi” Kremer, it is no coincidence that he has been a symbol of life since he was diagnosed last fall with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Since Kremer was first diagnosed, this second-year Business School student has raised over two million dollars, facilitated discussions between competing pharmaceutical companies, and founded two companies dedicated to discovering a treatment for ALS—commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kremer will graduate this week...
...Between these scenes of grey-toned horror we witness flashes of Miriam's life, decades later, fleshed out in full color. Her son has reached the age of being entered into Hebrew school and Katin struggles with whether to send him, "to be with our own kind," as her husband says. "You mean to separate. Again," she replies. These flash-forwards reveal the lasting effect on Miriam, who barely remembers any of the events depicted in the book. For her, leading a purely secular life is the only answer to the atrocities she and her mother experienced...
...daughter Suri, with fianc KATIE HOLMES. "It was spiritual. It was powerful. It was indescribable. What words can you use? It's still something that I'm processing and keep reliving." The couple said the baby's name means "red rose" in Persian, which it does, and "princess" in Hebrew--which had Israeli journalists and linguists scratching their heads. Suri was one of several celebritots to get an unusual moniker recently. Gwyneth Paltrow's Moses, Donald Trump's Barron, Joely Fisher's True and Brooke Shields' Grier (who was born in the same hospital and on the same...
...coitus of all Israelites,” Harris said, referring to the killing of the Israelites’ first-born children in Egypt. When Harris said that Pharaoh’s motive was to react to “two professors who wrote about the Hebrew lobby,”— a reference to a controversial paper authored by Kennedy School Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and the University of Chicago political scientist John J. Mearsheimer that criticizes pro-Israel activists in the U.S.,— Dershowitz responded by saying, “You just...