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When students stream back to campus after intersession, Hillel might be inundated with unlikely new visitors. These Jews and non-Jews will not be searching for left over Hanukah presents or exceptionally tasty kosher food, however. Instead, they might be seeking the hippest cultural trends...
...Harvard Hillel elected its third consecutive female president at last night’s elections. Judith Z. Herbstman ’07 will also be the third female president in the organization’s history. She will lead the undergraduate Steering Committee, chosen last night, which will also include Vice President of Community Building Talya J. Brettler ’08, Vice President of Community Relations Erica L. Farber ’07, Vice President of Education Philip A. Ernst ’06-’07, Vice President of Communications Hillary W. Steinbrook...
...identities. While many agreed that it was not possible to have a group in which every student felt completely comfortable, it may be possible to form areas of overlap between communities, argued Ana Huang ’08. The event was sponsored by several groups on campus, including BGLTSA, Hillel, Girlspot, Queer Asian Forum, and ethnic groups affiliated with the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural Relations...
...leave this academic year. Most professors, however, were not invited to the reception of roughly 150 guests. The wedding at Elmwood was an even smaller affair, with no more than 40 of the couple’s relatives and closest friends. Rabbi Norman Janis, a chaplain at the Harvard Hillel Foundation, presided over the ceremony. Summers and New are both Jewish. The bride and groom were driven to the Fogg in the president’s trademark Lincoln Town Car, its “1636” vanity license plates evoking the founding of Harvard College. Their driver, after parking...
...going to dilute your culture if you date someone of a different culture,” he says. In contrast, Summer says she found that the strongest reactions came not from her family, but from her religious community.She says that when she ran for the position of Hillel President last year, some notable people in the community expressed concern over her involvement in an interfaith relationship.“It was not a huge issue,” she said, “but it was something that I had to justify.”Many Harvard Jewish students...