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...anticipated $20 million operating loss for the fiscal year beginning next October, due in part to a projected decline in number of patients. The hospital hopes to break even, under best case scenario projections, for this fiscal year. The announcement is a marked departure from previous predictions of Beth Israel??s CEO, Paul Levy, who said in an interview last month that “we have chosen not to do layoffs.” Levy said then that Beth Israel was not as troubled as other Harvard institutions, such as the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which...
...JULIA S. CHENSwimming in the Mediterranean; hiking through Israel??s deserts, mountains, and valleys; hanging out with young Israeli soldiers—sounds like a fantasy vacation. If you’re lucky enough to be Jewish, you can have all this for free just by going on a Birthright trip.Taglit-Birthright is the organization which provides 10-day, all-expense paid trips to Israel for Jewish youth ages 18 to 26. This umbrella organization funds trips that are designed and led by more than 20 trip organizers. These trips must all follow the Taglit-Birthright guidelines...
...month to withdraw investments from a State Street mutual fund with holdings in six companies contracting with the Israeli military, after a college student group, Students for Justice in Palestine, petitioned the school to divest because of the companies’ ties to what students called “Israel??s illegal occupation of Palestine.” Hampshire President Ralph M. Hexter ’74 said yesterday that the move resulted from a broader review of the fund that was prompted by the student petition and found that many of its companies—not just...
...Though Israel??s settlement policy was wrong and short-sighted, it was nothing like the rapacious image Kennedy projects. Israel did not “take over” Palestinian water; in fact, it pumps water from Israel into Palestinian homes in both Gaza and the West Bank. And Israel did not “exploit” and “starve” the Palestinian economy. In fact, the Palestinian economy boomed under occupation for 20 years until the first intifada...
...Israel and the U.S.” planned to overthrow Hamas. In fact, the article hardly mentions Israel. But it does record that Hamas was cut off by the U.S., European Union, Russia, and the UN when it failed “to renounce violence, recognize Israel??s right to exist, and accept the terms of all previous agreements”—not because it won an election, and not just by “Israel...