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...event organized by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) and Harvard Hillel, Muslim and Jewish students feasted on falafel and hummus after sundown to break the fasting observed during Yom Kippur and Ramadan...
Jewish students at Harvard who are experiencing hunger during today’s Yom Kippur fast can know that they are doing their part to fight hunger across the globe. Hillel and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) have agreed to donate the money that would have funded Jewish students’ meals to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a nonprofit that grants money to hunger-relief organizations worldwide. Harvard will donate $2.46 per participant, according to Hillel’s vice president for community relations, Erica L. Farber ’07. This is the third year Harvard Hillel...
...OPINIONS, a Jewish Dartmouth columnist wants a day off for Yom Kippur, but also notes: "I will not accuse Dartmouth administrators of being anti-Semitic." The Columbia Spectator staff wants the school's health services to remain open over the weekend. The Crimson staff applauds charging students for missing their health-services appointments. And a Princetonian columnist, in a piece entitled, "Why morality hasn't declined," pens this winner for most overwrought Ivy quote...
...hosted in Ticknor Lounge, with expenses covered by HIS. Dinners serve Halal meat and are free to students on the Harvard meal plan. In order for meat to be considered Halal, it must be prepared according to specific religious guidelines. The HIS also hosts interfaith iftars such as the Yom Kippur break-fast that will take place with Harvard Hillel...
...centuries of Jewish suffering in Europe culminating in the Holocaust. In the Palestinian and Arab narrative, Israel's creation meant the violent displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and another Arab humiliation at Western hands. So, while May 15 is celebrated by Israelis as Yom Haatzmaut (independence day), the Palestinians mark the same day as the somber anniversary of Al-Nakbah (the catastrophe), the moment when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lost everything...