Word: kosher
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...instance, Feldman finds the concerns raised by many Jews at Harvard over the Leonard Jeffries speech, the Harvard Foundation exchange in The Crimson and the Dunster House "kosher toaster" debacle certainly valid. But he questions the extent to which the debates that emerged were "functional...
THIS SPRING, when Dunster House tutor Noel Ignatiev complained about a toaster over reserved for kosher use in the dining hall, a number of Jewish students suggested that his motivations were anti-Semitic. This argument, however, fits under Feldman's definition of what is not "functional...
...fair, the Liems view Ignatiev's action in the toaster controversy as part of a long-standing disregard for house protocol. And Ignatiev's remarks have been perceived as insensitive by a number of Jewish students in Dunster who adhere to kosher laws--namely, those who have reported silly threats from Ignatiev about putting ham in the oven...
Finally, it is important to realize that the purchase of the kosher toaster was legitimate even on secular, egalitarian grounds. Jewish students pay the same amount for their food as everyone else; one toaster oven and a little bit of kosher food will not even begin to compensate them for the amount of money they waste each year eating tuna fish in the dining hall...
...drive for protection of free expression, the staff ignores what really is at issue in the debate over Noel Ignatiev, the Liems and the kosher toaster...