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Rabbi Kudan, who spearheaded a fund-raising effort in hopes of remaining at Harvard, said that Hillel didn’t seem to want him to stay. “Hillel put obstacles in my path,” he said...
Kudan said, however, that he soon noticed that Hillel had placed an advertisement for a Conservative rabbi on a Jewish employment website. At the time, he said, Hillel had not had a Conservative rabbinic adviser for undergraduates for three years...
While Kudan said he believes that Conservative students at Harvard deserve a full-time rabbinic presence, he was also perplexed that Hillel would search for a Conservative rabbi while his own position was in jeopardy...
...letter, Steinberg emphasized that Harvard Hillel was the only Hillel in the country that actively tried to maintain a full-time rabbi for Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Jewish communities. He cited a lack of funding as the reason that Hillel cannot employ three rabbis at the time...
...While Hillel has had trouble consistently maintaining Conservative and Reform advisors, Harvard Hillel has employed Robert Klapper for several years as its Orthodox rabbinic adviser, although he has not always been a full-time employee there...