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...Five years ago, Hillel had a ruling body which was almost entirely composed of Orthodox people," says Julia W. Andelman '97-'98, a member of Hillel's Conservative minyan, whose older sister was also a member. "Now the conception of the leadership has changed, as have the people...
Although the minyans are funded by Hillel, they are governed separately. Each minyan chooses its own leadership and plans its own services...
...Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Bratislava, Berlin, in hundreds of towns and villages from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Jewish communities are re-emerging and coming together in a kind of Continental minyan, the quorum required for the holding of religious services. Synagogues and schools are rising again, some on the foundations of Jewish institutions dating from the Middle Ages. Jews are proudly calling themselves Jews once more, reviving traditions and cultures long buried in the ashes of Hitler's ovens. ``That now there is the possibility to be a Jew is mystical,'' says 18-year-old Igor Czernikow...
...chair of the Reform Minyan at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, I have to ask, please, don't call us the Reformed Minyan ("Problems with Hillel's Architecture Persist," news story, Dec. 11). Since the Reform Movement was founded in the mid-1700s with the idea of thinking about religious practices and adapting them to be more relevant to the modern world, there has been almost constant change...
...while the members of our Minyan are comfortable with our current religious practice, we are not ready to move in to the past tense, and we continue our diligence as the Reform Minyan. --Lawrence E. Wilson '96 Chair, Reform Minyan Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...