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...letter dated February 24, 2006, Harvard Hillel president and director Dr. Bernard Steinberg thanked outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers for his “unapologetic identification with the Jewish people.” Summers was Harvard’s first Jewish president, and Steinberg wrote that Summers stood firm in his support of the community. But following Summers’ ouster, whether or not Harvard’s next president will be so resolute is less certain.Summers’ identification with the Jewish community was a product of little gestures—maintaining a relationship with Hillel...
...Thayer from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. The Hurlbut keys, though, apparently work fine. So does that mean that Hurlbut is the new Hillel alternative for those locked out of Thayer? “Since Hurlbut is a very small dorm, it feels like a very overwhelming majority [is Jewish],” says Hurlbut resident Yonit D. Lavin ’09. And until the Thayer key situation works out, Hurlbut might just be a new campus hot-spot...
...Religion is a personal and private matter that does and should color people’s perception of politics,” says Eric P. Lesser ‘07, president of the Harvard College Democrats. Lesser says that his Judaism is especially important to him, and that Jewish values, such as tzedekah (justice or charity), tikkun olam (healing the world), and mitzvah (God’s moral commandments), make him a Democrat.The Dems boast many Jewish members like Lesser, but Harvard Dems member Kyle A. Krahel ’08 claims that like...
...release announcing the Harvard gift, New York Congressman Anthony D. Weiner wrote a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers insisting the prince had direct ties to terrorism by virtue of his membership in a government that preaches reactionary Islam. “It seems like this money has Jewish blood on it” Harvard Students for Israel President Amy M. Zelcer ’07 told The Crimson in December...
While most students study abroad somewhere far from home, Yeshiva University senior Sarah Rindner is spending a semester in an environment more spiritually than geographically foreign. While she’ll return to Yeshiva—a modern orthodox Jewish university in New York City—to receive her diploma, she’s wrapping up her college career in Cambridge. Rindner says she came to Harvard because the Yeshiva Jewish community “was claustrophobic. I know it’s my last semester, and I wanted to make some positive memories...