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...instance, Feldman finds the concerns raised by many Jews at Harvard over the Leonard Jeffries speech, the Harvard Foundation exchange in The Crimson and the Dunster House "kosher toaster" debacle certainly valid. But he questions the extent to which the debates that emerged were "functional...
THIS SPRING, when Dunster House tutor Noel Ignatiev complained about a toaster over reserved for kosher use in the dining hall, a number of Jewish students suggested that his motivations were anti-Semitic. This argument, however, fits under Feldman's definition of what is not "functional...
...could have been offended by the toaster oven controversy, but was not," Feldman says. Rather than argue for the kosher toaster oven, Feldman takes on the foundations of Ignatiev's argument...
...toaster issue was indicative of a larger debate about Judaism: whether it is an ethnicity or religion, Feldman says, When he fills out "ethnicity" on questionaires, he says he often looks for the little bubble that says" Jewish." It is ironic, he adds, that Jews spent so long getting that little bubble, once dangerously called "race," removed...
...Judaism is an ethnicity, and the University wants to help encourage expressions of ethnic difference on campus, Feldman says, "from the perspective of kosher-eating people, a toaster oven costs a lot less than Cultural Rhythms," the annual Harvard festival celebrating cultural diversity...