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Harvard Campus Rabbi Avi E. Poupko leaped on stage after the band’s exit and waved his arms before diving into the audience, only for the crowd to part like the Red Sea below him. A collective gasp in the audience was rejoined by sporadic snickering as Poupko was forcibly removed by a number of hefty bouncers...
...stood beneath a heat-lamp just outside the club, Rabbi Poupko told the Crimson, "I was disappointed that nobody caught me. I’m in pain. My knee is bleeding. But it was Matis who inspired me to jump...
...time Hillel Rabbi Avi Poupko attempted to loosen up the crowd with breathing exercises and song around 8:15 p.m., only some were listening...
...original story incorrectly stated that Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi attempted to loosen up the crowd with "breathing exercises and song" at the dinner. That same story also incorrectly stated that Hillel subsidized the cost of dinner for those not on Harvard's meal plan. As the story now states, both Hillel and Chabad jointly subsidized the meals. The story also stated that the event had a waiting list of over 100 people. Although the waiting list did exist, the original story did not make it clear that no one was turned away from the dinner. The Crimson regrets the errors...
...about how Abramoff first met Tom DeLay, the man who once referred to the lobbyist as "one of my closest and dearest friends." Some versions have it that they were introduced shortly before the Republicans regained the House in 1994 by their mutual friend Daniel Lapin, a Seattle-area rabbi who has long been active in conservative causes. But a former DeLay aide tells TIME that it happened during a fund raiser shortly after the election in which Republicans gained full control of Congress for the first time in more than 40 years. In this account, DeLay's then chief...