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...week shorter than normal for this fall’s incoming first-year class, the result of an effort by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to minimize the year’s conflict between the academic calendar and the Jewish New Year’s holiday of Rosh Hashanah...
...Ramadan is like Rosh Hashanah, Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving all rolled into one," said Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology David G. Mitten, who is a faculty adviser to the Harvard Islamic Society...
...freshman dorms and upperclass houses. Hillel is doing what it can to provide us with Hannukah as we knew it at home, but once again, Harvard is dictating how we observe our holidays. It started with the first-year move-in being scheduled on the two days of Rosh Hashanah (or should I say Rosh Hashanah being scheduled on first-year move-in?). The families of Jewish first-years--300 or 400 in all--had to attempt to welcome the Jewish new year in the prescribed manner, while at the same time settling their children into college for the first...
Like the film's Ben Kurtzman, the young Barry Levinson thought the white bread he ate at a Gentile home was raw. ("Ours was always toasted!") Like Ben's father, his dad sneaked out of the temple on Rosh Hashanah to check out the new Cadillacs. But Levinson, 57, believes his film is more than simple nostalgia. "We have all these hate crimes today--the gay slaying in Wyoming, the man dragged to death in Texas, the shootings at schools." So, he says, what happened in Baltimore in 1954 is still sadly pertinent today...
According to Nathans, a handful of Jewish students chose to move in after Rosh Hashanah ended. First-years moving in today missed the crowds, but they may also miss out on things like required physical exams for athletes and proctor meetings along with registration and the activities fair...