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Last May, students and tutors became outraged after Noel Ignatiev, a nonresident tutor in the house, was not rehired after voicing his strong objections to a kosher toaster paid for out of University funds...
...Last year there were a whole bunch of things going on right around Passover that if one was Jewish, might have made you feel under attack," Allen says, making particular reference to the controversy over the kosher toaster oven in Dunster House and to a letter to The Crimson by Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter, which accused the paper of having a pro-Jewish "racial agenda...
...beyond the institutional questions, there is an even larger problem at Dunster House: Karel Liem. His handling of the Nobel Ignatiev case last spring was despicable, too. When Ignatiev, a non-resident tutor, spoke out about, of all things, a kosher toaster, he was, as Liem would say, "non-rehired"--the tutorial equivalent of a firing...
...letter stated that his use of a toaster oven was illegal. However, Kontoff said he believes that the underlying reason was his refusal to take down the signs...
Snopek agreed that the eviction must have been due to the political messages. "No one else would have been kicked out just for using a toaster," said Snopek, a protester and member of Food Not Bombs...