Word: hillels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third floor features, along with scattered Economics and Government Department offices, the Harvard Hillel Children's School. Outside, the hallways are crowded with carefully handwritten book reports, stars-of-David made of popsicle sticks, and posters that say "Have you hugged your Hebrew book today...
Such eager renunciation of any "separatism" at Harvard is a bit disingenuous in a social environment marked by final clubs, Hillel, the Catholic Students Center, and other institutions that reinforce a group identity. In the end, it is merely a matter of economics. Final clubs need not rely on the University for funds, so they can be as separatist as they wish, Jewish and Catholic alumni underwrite their respective centers. Minorities have not been on campus long enough in great enough numbers to establish an affluent alumni network, though, so their undergraduate experiences are tied to College policy...
...though somehow she found time to divorce her husband and wed and shed two more. She also served as his "therapist," she alleges, trying to help him "overcome his Marquis de Sade complex." The therapy Morgan administered remains vague, but it was alluded to in court papers filed by Hillel Chodos, Betsy Bloomingdale's attorney. He wrote, "[Morgan] was going to help him by watching him so if he became more seriously ... involved in his alleged sadomasochistic pursuits than she felt proper, she would give him 'the look,' and he would calm down...
...Brown Hillel's holiday succath, a tent-like structure built by Jews every year as part of the fall holiday of Succoth, was destroyed by vandals early Friday morning or late Thursday night, Hillel director Howard Winneman said yesterday...
...Hillel was right about the Arab summit's appearing to be more judicious in its response to Reagan. Last year an Arab conference broke up after only 5½ hours because it could not agree on whether to support the peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd, who has since become King. The Fahd plan implied that Israel had a right to exist, something the hard-line states, like Syria and Iraq, strongly opposed. This year the Arab leaders debated a similar plan for the best part of four days, and reached an agreement, although it was more...