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...religious organization that also functions on campus. Hillel is an organization specifically designed to provide Jewish college students with a chance to be Jews.”Hillel International, the world’s largest Jewish campus organization, has been providing Harvard’s Jewish community with Judaism-oriented classes, activities, and, more recently, HUDS dinners a cut above standard fare since 1944. Its extra perks include the $8 million Hillel building’s prime Mt. Auburn Street location and flashy modern design. According to head Rabbi Avi Poupko, Hillel’s mission centers around the ideal...
...aplomb, his path to the belief—not religion, please—was hardly linear. He was raised in the Reform Jewish tradition but studied Chinese and Religion at the University of Michigan, intending to become a Buddihist or Taoist monk. Then he discovered “Humanistic Judaism,” a movement which combines Jewish culture with Humanistic principles. After his ordainment as a Humanistic rabbi, Epstein arrived at Harvard to study at the Divinity School. Epstein assumed his role as Humanist Chaplain in 2005 when Thomas Ferrick, founder of the chaplaincy and its chaplain since...
Summers’ Judaism entered the spotlight a year into his tenure, when he famously said a petition urging the University to divest from Israel was one of several actions that were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent...
Some veteran Jewish leaders draw inspiration from the new groups. "They're a reminder that we need to welcome unconventional approaches to Jewish life," says Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism. Rabbi Niles Goldstein, a co-founder of the New Shul, a progressive Manhattan congregation, occasionally leads outdoor prayer sessions. "Who wants to sit against hard-backed pews?" says Goldstein. "I'd much rather sit up against a tree...
Malcolm sweeps her protagonist through both World Wars, the Hungarian revolution, and the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. He is seduced at the age of 14 and blackmailed by Shanghai gangsters. He commits murder and adultery, renounces Judaism, and loses both real and foster family to violence...