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Hillel's extraordinary $8 million capital campaign is the result of decades of work, according to Acting Hillel Director Rabbi Sally Finestone. "The only reason why Hillel was able to raise the funds was basically because for over 30 years people have been becoming part of this community, worshipping here and studying here," says Finestone. "It took 30 years of nurturing a community of alumni support, and the fund raising has been going on for seven years...
Finestone also draws a distinction between the functions of Hillel and of a possible minority students center. "Hillel is basically the synagogue for the Harvard community, and that is different than what the other groups face," says Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...
...Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting director of Hillel, led the audience in the recitation of the Shehechiyanu, a Jewish prayer of thanksgiving. She then introduced Miznor Shir, the newly formed Hillel Choir, which sang one song...
...mosque often led in worship by Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a Muslim fundamentalist who was implicated and later acquitted in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. One of Sheik Omar's followers is serving a seven-to-22-year sentence in connection with the 1990 murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City. (See cover stories beginning on page...
...violence himself, he has been accused of giving religious approval for bloodshed. He was arrested, imprisoned, then acquitted, for encouraging the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. U.S. and Egyptian officials suspect him of issuing fatwas, or religious decrees, in the 1990 Manhattan slaying of Jewish militant Rabbi Meir Kahane and the 1992 Brooklyn murder of an Egyptian named Mustafa Shalabi. Egyptian security officials claim they have evidence that his teachings inspired the murder of antifundamentalist writer Farag Foda, who was killed in Egypt last June...