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...about the context.” Oja said she hopes the course will attract students with a variety of interests beyond music. “We want people in music, but we want more than that,” Oja said. “This appeals to people in Jewish studies, in gender studies.” Shelemay also stressed the range of interests and skills that the seminar will intersect with, adding that “what’s great about seminars like this is you get professors and students with different expertise.” The culmination...
...president of Harvard Students for Israel, wrote in an e-mail. She cited a 2002 CBS Marketwatch article that said the Saudi Prince donated $27 million and 100 four wheel drive vehicles to families of Palestinian suicide bombers. “It seems like this money has Jewish blood on it,” she said, referencing the article. She added that for a bridge between Islam and the West to form, donations should not come only from one side. According to Donella Rapier, Harvard’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, the gift agreement was finalized...
Move-in day inspires many a colorful conversation among newly acquainted parents. My mother’s comments about her arranged marriage to my father received quite a look of shock from my roommate’s mother—a Jewish woman from Brooklyn who agonized over “the perfect man” until she met her husband shortly before her 30th birthday. It was on that fated move-in day that my mother commented somewhat whimsically about how she met and married my father: “I wasn’t scared to marry...
...most influential one elaborating Joseph's story was a 2nd century text called The Protevangelium of James. Its story runs, in part, like this: the girl Mary, herself the product of a miraculous pregnancy, grows up in the great Jewish Temple receiving food from the hand of an angel. But as she approaches puberty, she can live there no longer, and the High Priest searches for a chaste caretaker to look after her. Under divine guidance, he collects the wooden staffs of all the widowers of Israel and prays over them, awaiting a sign. One by one he returns each...
...reception of roughly 150 guests. The wedding at Elmwood was an even smaller affair, with no more than 40 of the couple’s relatives and closest friends. Rabbi Norman Janis, a chaplain at the Harvard Hillel Foundation, presided over the ceremony. Summers and New are both Jewish. The bride and groom were driven to the Fogg in the president’s trademark Lincoln Town Car, its “1636” vanity license plates evoking the founding of Harvard College. Their driver, after parking, also attended the reception. Several people who were inside said the affair...