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There is even less hoopla surrounding Summers’ Judaism, says Benjamin Z. Galper ’02, chair of Harvard Hillel, because many—including Galper himself—mistakenly assumed that Harvard has already had a Jewish president: Neil L. Rudenstine...
...fact, Rudenstine’s two grandfathers were Jewish, but the former University president is Episcopalian. According to Galper, Rudenstine visited Hillel only twice during his decade-long tenure as president...
Last month, a crowd of 1,300 watched the 27th president of Harvard University hold up a Torah scroll during a service ushering in Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement...
...today, 80 years after Lowell’s attempts to root out those who would not modify their “peculiar practices,” Lawrence H. Summers will be officially installed as the first Jewish president of Harvard University...
Most of the Ivy League colleges have already had Jewish presidents, notes Freedman, who was Dartmouth’s first Jewish president. Penn...