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Social workers at Jerusalem's shelter for battered Haredi women say that family violence often erupts during the ritual Shabbat dinner, when all children are gathered - tempers flare over mundane arguments and the husband strikes his wife. A wife may endure such treatment for years. But the number of women who call a 24-hour hotline for battered Haredi women has jumped from 477 calls in 2004 to 1,402 last year. Social workers attribute the increase to a new generation of rabbis urging women to speak out against domestic violence...
...Friday night, hundreds of students and faculty members were lined up outside of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) waiting to get in. But they weren’t there to work out. This year, Harvard Hillel and Chabad at Harvard hosted the largest Shabbat 1000 to date at the College, with 700 Harvard affiliates in attendance. “Having this one combined blowout dinner gets both sides of the Jewish community at Harvard involved,” said Harvard Hillel President Sarah B. Joselow ’10, who is also a Crimson design editor...
...definitely a humanist. A lot could be improved if we took the time to understand ourselves and each other,” she says. It is this kind of philosophy that has guided her efforts to build community. Sandra L. Di Capua ’07, who has had Shabbat dinner with Cohen almost every Friday night during their time at Harvard, recalls a particular meal when her friend introduced herself to 50 or 60 people at dinner and evoked laughs. “Here was this Friday night Jewish dinner and she was comparing it to a Ghanaian feast...
...Motorola Q phone, like everybody else’s, stopped working, making me inaccessible to anybody outside of my immediate vicinity. So, there have been fewer interruptions; my time has been less compartmentalized, so I could enjoy two hours at Felipe’s as if it was a Shabbat dinner. That’s how Felipe’s became a family restaurant...
Harvard Hillel has never passed the extra cost of running a kosher kitchen and providing food for Shabbat, Holidays and student initiated programs on to Harvard students and their parents. We must now appeal to you, whose children and grandchildren have enjoyed and continue to enjoy the warmth of the Hillel community on campus, to make a difference. Please make a gift of $250 or more to Harvard Hillel's Meal Campaign...