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...Jewish student who attended elite Northeastern schools in the heyday of the Protestant Establishment, Slavitt faced prejudice growing up. When he applied for admission to Choate, a school representative calmly informed his parents that the year’s “Hebrew quota” had already been reached. Slavitt, a middle-schooler at the time, was in the room...
...there any Ivies with non-Jewish presidents?” Slavitt jokes...
Approximately 500 students passed through the large white tent to purchase Israeli chocolate, keychains, flags and food while listening to live music from the Jewish a cappella group Mizmor Shir and a student Klezmer Band, Recklez. The tent also featured tables offering information about traveling to Israel and studying there...
Revamping NELC will not be an easy task. For one, it needs to be separated into at least five departments: Arabic and Islamic studies, Persian studies, Jewish studies, Turkish studies and Ancient Near East studies. While these departments would still share geographic proximity, they would have a coherence that the current NELC department lacks. Instead of focusing on geographic regions as their sole reason for existing, these departments would rely on culture...
Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris also said that the tremendous scope of the review has made it inevitable that the process would be hurried...