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...which Hanukkah will be celebrated by Jewish students on campus this year has been promoted as a model for all such observances. Lighting the Hanukkah lights is characterized as a low-key affair, with Jewish students lighting these candles quickly in common rooms, leaving promptly at the conclusion of the ceremony, and generally keeping things quiet and out-of-the-way. I find this vision of holiday observances deficient from both a Jewish perspective as well as from the perspective of a Harvard student at large...
...From a Jewish perspective, one of the fundamental tenets of the lighting of the Hanukkah candles is the notion of Pirsum Ha’Nes, Hebrew for “publicizing the miracle”—the miracle of the restoration of the Temple lights that is central to the story of Hanukkah. The notion of furtively lighting one’s Hanukkah candles, crouching low to stay out of view, is a direct violation of the primary spirit of these laws. Lighting Hanukkah candles in common rooms out of concern for fire safety has nothing...
...which has taken over so much of my residential life, to provide me with a complete personal environment. Which means that if one expects to have Christmas decorations in one’s home, even dining room, then Harvard should accommodate that. And if I want a sukkah (a Jewish temporary ritual structure) in my House courtyard, then the University should also allow me that (which in fact they do), and not force me to hide these parts of me for fear that someone with different needs or desires will feel bad that mine are being...
...Mohammed emphasized that there is no conflict between the Jewish and Islamic communities on campus...
Steinberg expressed frustration that the “Arab and Muslim community have not expressed solidarity” with the pain of the Jewish people after the murders last week...