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...Institute enlists the help of Harvard students and leaders of Hillel’s Worship and Study congregation to prepare local students and their families for the big day, while drawing them into Harvard’s Jewish community...
After nearly 30 years of providing informal help for Jewish youth in preparation for their passage into adulthood, a congregation within Harvard Hillel has expanded their tutoring programs in a new Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Institute founded this past fall...
Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris took issue with the College’s current policy prohibiting students from studying in countries where State Department Travel Warnings are in effect...
Sfar's father's side is Algerian Jewish, while his mother's lineage comes from Jews in Ukraine. Sfar is a native of Nice. His stories of Sephardic and Ashkenazic differences, and Jewish-Muslim relations, have resonated with readers in France. Says Sfar: "Not long ago I gave a talk to some 17-year-old students, where most were Arab. Afterward, two girls came up to me and said, 'We adored it because we could see how Jewish families are just as screwed up as Arab families.' That made me smile." --By Grant Rosenberg
...trotted out last week came in 1965 when Ed Ames of Daniel Boone, demonstrating a tomahawk throw, landed his ax squarely in the crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like a diamond stowed in his breast pocket...