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Hertzberg’s speech drew mixed reactions from the Hillel crowd, with some audience members rising to challenge the rabbi’s arguments...
Israel must relinquish its claim over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in order to maintain a Jewish majority within the country, a prominent rabbi told nearly 100 listeners at Harvard Hillel last night...
...smart-asses who come here on occasion say that we will run the Arabs into cantons,” Hertzberg said, referring to Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who also addressed Hillel audiences this fall...
Saito has experienced such a heated debate on a much smaller scale: the Hillel-Open email list. Several months ago, a post by a non-Harvard student concerning The Passion sparked a fiery exchange among the list members. Saito says it quickly became “nasty and out of control.” The list manager eventually disallowed further discussion of the issue, encouraging participants to continue their discourse outside the list...
Joshua Neuman, the publisher of Heeb Magazine: The New Jew Review, spoke to the Harvard Hillel on Tuesday and returned a little bit of hipster to the Jews of Harvard after a stint at the Divinity School. His brainchild is an irreverent quarterly devoted to “the unconventional, non-payis wearing, middle finger to the Hebrew School teacher, motorcycle riding, non-doctor, non-lawyer, bacon cheeseburger eating, rock-and-roll loving, crazy Jew”—or so someone on The New York Times letters page would have it. Neuman knows everything there is to know...