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Smith is also a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, trustee emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and honorary trustee of Combined Jewish Philanthropies...
...violence in the Middle East continued to flair, tensions between Arab, Muslim and Jewish groups came to a head on Oct. 24 when two events were held simultaneously in Tercentenary Theater...
...date of Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar--hundreds of Jewish students and community members held a vigil on the steps of Widener Library to pray for peace for Israel...
...Jewish calendar clearly mandates time to consider issues of priorities and values. Days are set aside for us to rethink how we act and how we live. But when the sun sets on Yom Kippur, the book of life is closed and put on the shelf until the next year. Whether or not we like the answers Judaism or anyone else offers, whether we have any answers at all, there is a time to search and a time to move on, taking the answers that we’ve considered on our path with...
...find much comfort in thinking of the Jewish calendar this way, and I think the college calendar is similar. We come here, spend four years rethinking everything we’ve ever believed, and are then dumped back into the world expected to function, even function well. If I continued in my overly analytical way to question all my assumptions, considering the theories I’ve learned, the contradictions between these ideas and the injustices in the world, I would be a useless employee and unproductive member of society. So while we should continue learning and thinking critically...