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Kosher sausage—an oxymoron? Think again. Hillel hosted “Kosher Sex: The Game Show” in Adams Lower Common Room (LCR) on Monday as part of the week’s Jewbilation festivities. Done in Jeopardy-fashion, the trivia game tapped into potentially touchy areas, including the category “I ‘Know’ You Biblical Relations.” “We really thought it was important to have an event like this because Judaism has a lot to say about these issues,” says contestant...
...roundtable discussion called “Jewish in 2007,” some 60 people gathered at Hillel to hear Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, and Professor Stephen A. Marglin talk about how they have merged their intellectual and spiritual lives...
...became associated with masturbation? All these questions were answered at “Kosher Sex: The Game Show,” an event held yesterday evening as part of “Jewbilation,” a week-long celebration of Jewish life on campus sponsored by Harvard Hillel. Rabbi Ethan Linden, the rabbinic advisor for Hillel’s Student Conservative Minyan, hosted the event, which featured a Jeopardy-style game show and a close reading of a Torah passage. “The literature on sexuality in Jewish law is vast,” said Linden...
...rush of science classes letting out, everything was gone by 1:15. “This was definitely the biggest crowd we’ve had in several years,” Stern said. The festival was sponsored by the HSI, the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, the Harvard Hillel, the Israel Campus Roundtable, and the David Project...
...website also lists campus Hillels as possible cosponsors, despite the fact that Jewish student groups frequently work with Arab and Muslim student groups on campus to facilitate dialogue. Both Harvard Hillel and the Progressive Jewish Alliance have asserted their opposition to the event. Horowitz’s suggestion—that, by virtue of their religion and culture, Jewish students would support such outright racism against Muslims—only exacerbates the polarization between Arabs and Jews, and indiscriminately conflates religions, ethnicities, and political allegiances...