Word: hillel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amassing] funds is part of it, but that's not the whole plan. It's about building a community for both black undergraduates and black alumni," he said, noting that other groups--such as Hillel--have been successful in connecting with graduates...
...Martha L. Minow, on the other hand, thinks that identity politics is still an important issue. Her new book looks at identity politics with an eye toward some practical concerns, such as peremptory strikes in jury selection and racial categories in the census. Minow explained in a lecture at Hillel the other day that one must take a moderate position on group rights. Quoting a saying of the Jewish sage Hillel, Minow quipped that if we are not for ourselves, who will be for us? But it we are only for ourselves, who are we? In other words, Minow believes...
That's the column I would have written a week ago, before I attended Monday's inter-ethnic discussion sponsored by the Black Students Association and Hillel. I went to the event in part to find out what blacks and Jews might say to one another when seated at the same table. But primarily I went to gather empirical evidence for my great treatise exposing the national dialogue for the farcical disaster I perceived...
...question about Israel's treatment of the Palestinians was followed by a statement about the inevitability of black exclusion, followed by a testimonial about life in South Central Los Angeles, followed by a student's confession that he removes his yarmulke when he returns to his house from Hillel...
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, 52 Mt. Auburn...