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...outgoing, articulate and knowledgeable member of the Orthodox minyan,” wrote Rabbi Benjamin C. Greenberg, one of the event’s organizers, in an e-mail. “I invite members of the community and visiting scholars-in-residence to address the Orthodox minyan and more broadly the larger Hillel population regularly...
...priority for many Hillel members. Nevertheless, organizers were not disappointed. “Any time you can get people to come on a weeknight to discuss religion, it’s a good turnout,” says Rabbi Ethan Linden, advisor to Hillel’s Student Conservative Minyan and host of the game show. And after all, “Jeopardy” can only get three people to play. Although the game was not competitive, contestants with correct answers were rewarded with thematic—albeit aseasonal—Dove Valentine’s Day chocolates...
...Kosher Sex: The Game Show,” an event held yesterday evening as part of “Jewbilation,” a week-long celebration of Jewish life on campus sponsored by Harvard Hillel. Rabbi Ethan Linden, the rabbinic advisor for Hillel’s Student Conservative Minyan, hosted the event, which featured a Jeopardy-style game show and a close reading of a Torah passage. “The literature on sexuality in Jewish law is vast,” said Linden. “It has something to say about all aspects of life...
...sound like the makings of a low-key weekend night. But when the pizza is made from matzah and the movie is a cult classic about hook-ups at a Jewish summer camp, things start to get interesting. Such was the case last Saturday night when the Harvard Reform Minyan, a prayer community at Harvard Hillel, hosted a screening of “Wet Hot American Summer” to provide Passover-observing students with a kosher-friendly study break, complete with matzah pizza, Havdalah prayers, live guitar, and plenty of Manischewitz wine. Jaclyn B. Granick...
...here to there in your own quiet way. Thank you for the help that you have given and for the help that you are going to give to Israel,” said The Fools between songs. Avi Poupko, Harvard Hillel campus Rabbi and Rabbinic Advisor to the Orthodox Minyan said, “The band’s name is based on an ancient Jewish teaching that states that the mind can sometimes get in the way of prophecy. At Harvard, where the mind is so important, we sometimes forget that the heart transcends everything...