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Rlickman was born in Bluefield, W. Va., in 1951, to a Jewish doctor and a musician who fled Germany during World War II. One of seven children, Rlickman joined the Marine Corps after high school and served in Vietnam...
...want simply to offer some thoughts on Harvard’s biggest divestment exponents. When I first began to follow The Crimson’s divestment coverage, a couple of things struck me as odd: first, the movement’s most ardent supporters at Harvard are neither Jewish nor Arab and, second, almost none of them seems to have a direct academic interest in that part of the world or its politics—many are members of Harvard’s Psychology, Classics and Linguistics Departments. Now, of course anyone can take an interest in any issue?...
Number the Stars, widely read in elementary schools, tells the story of a 10-year-old Danish girl who is instrumental in rescuing her Jewish best friend, as well as several other Jewish families, from Nazi control during World War II. Michael B. Cover ’04 remembers the book as his “first personal connection with the Holocaust. It certainly brought me close, as a child, to the experiences of another child whose faith and times were so distant from...
Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, Kaneb Professor of National Security Stephen P. Rosen and Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School Joseph L. Bacaracco will be the new masters of Cabot, Winthrop and Currier Houses, respectively...
Karen E. Avery ’87, director of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, introduced Westheimer, highlighting her new textbook, Human Sexuality: A Psychosocial Perspective, and her term at Princeton lecturing on the Jewish family...