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...member of the Harvard community and as a Jewish activist, I applaud your thoughtful condemnation of Martin Kramer’s comments regarding Palestinians and the tepid response from the Weatherhead Center. Too often in our public conversation, basic human rights standards and the civility we expect towards the “other” (Jewish, African-American, Hispanics, etc) are not applied to Palestinians who are living under unconscionable distress in Gaza and the West Bank due largely to the Israeli occupation. Combining that with the muzzling that occurs in the press with regard to accurate reporting from...
...really believe that once you get to a certain level of public exposure, people are just entertained by the lives of other people. Sometimes it’s more artistically represented, through film or through song, and other times it’s more literally represented through tabloids and reality shows and people are just as engaged. I take it as a by-product of the industry that I’ve chosen...
Lila G. Brown ’11, an environmental science and public policy concentrator, said that while she was excited about the honor—she said she called her mother—in the end, the academic distinction has a limited value...
Michael realized a school like Harvard was his only chance. Though his parents were excited about his acceptance into some prestigious public universities, Michael could not bring himself to share their joy. “I think they were seeing [my acceptance] as a milestone, and I saw it as a missed opportunity,” he says. He had seen the struggles of older undocumented youth as they took time off from school to work to pay for college or went into deep debt, and knew he did not want...
There is a public expectation in Western democracies for a full accounting. And it is a sentiment that faithful Catholics share especially because of their piety. Jordan Bonfante, who covered the Vatican for TIME during the late 1970s, has been a rabbinical guide as I, a secular Jew, have covered the same beat in more recent years. In a rare quiet moment in 2005 when we together covered the period between the death of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI, Bonfante, a practicing Catholic, told me what continues to draw him to his faith. "Catholicism...