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Harvard Hillel announced the latest in a series of aggressive structural reforms yesterday, appointing a new Executive Vice President who will strengthen fundraising efforts and streamline day-to-day operations at the Jewish cultural center...
...affiliate of the national Hillel organization, the Harvard chapter has used its $2.4 million annual budget to operate 400 programs each year involving Jewish education, activism, religious reflection, and advocacy for the state of Israel...
...someone often derided for his passivity, Abbas, 69, has also been willing to mix it up. Born in Safed, a town now part of Israel, he grew up in Damascus after his family fled when the Jewish state was founded in 1948. As a young member of Fatah, Arafat's faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), he made his name as a fund raiser while avoiding involvement in the group's terrorist attacks. He was among the first Fatah leaders to build bridges to Israeli peace campaigners and in 1977 issued a declaration in favor of a two-state...
...Abbas has also invited suspicion. As a student at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, he turned in a dissertation, published as a book in Jordan in 1984, that accused the postwar Zionist movement of inflating the number of Jewish Holocaust victims for political gain. While many Israelis say the book amounts to a denial of the Holocaust, Abbas' defenders point to the passage in which Abbas calls the Holocaust a "crime that the civilized world ... and humanity cannot accept...
...French left, and ultimately engineered its triumph in May, 1981, has always inspired harsh polemics. He was the hope of the left, but also the bourgeois prince who sold it out; the valiant resistance fighter, but also the Vichy regime bureaucrat. He was lauded as a friend of the Jewish people, but never denounced his long friendship with Vichy police chief Réné Bousquet, who helped round up Jews for deportation at the notorious Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris...