Last November, I was one of 100 J Street U students from across New England who attended a meeting at Harvard Hillel with Barry Shrage. Shrage is the President of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies (the Boston area’s Jewish Federation) as is seen as an important and respected figure in the Boston Jewish community. We discussed…
When Harvard University students Gabe Hodgkin and Grace Evans started the new school year, they had no way of knowing they’d be spending a good deal of their time on picket lines and at union rallies. But a strike by the university’s 750 dining hall workers struck a deep chord with the two sophomores, who…
In Cambridge, Massachusetts—home to prestigious schools like Harvard and M.I.T.—the Swedish Academy’s announcement of Nobel Prize winners usually brings happy news to several professors. The streak holds this month, as Harvard economist Oliver Hart scored a Nobel for his works on contracts. Sharing the Prize in Economics with his MIT colleague, Bengt Holmstrom, the Jewish…
Eleven Jewish students and recent alumni of the Harvard Law School have signed a letter defending the law student who asked former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni why she is “so smelly.” In a letter to the Harvard Law Record, the students defend “our friend and peer” Husam El-Qoulaq, whose comment at an April 14…
The head of a student group at Harvard Law School has apologized for asking Israeli lawmaker Tzipi Livni, “How is it that you are so smelly?” The unidentified student posed the question during an April 14 panel event on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict involving Livni and American diplomat Dennis Ross. The leaders of the school’s Jewish…
(JTA) — An international law firm has withdrawn its sponsorship of Harvard Law School student events after funds were used for a Justice for Palestine event. The Milbank corporate law firm, which in 2012 pledged $1 million over five years for the events as long as the firm was acknowledged on promotional material, took back…
Harvard Law School is launching a program on Jewish and Israeli law. The Julis-Rabinowitz Program in Jewish and Israeli Law, established through a gift from hedge fund manager Mitchell Julis, will bring in visiting scholars, host an annual conference and offer courses. Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman will be the program’s inaugural director. At 32,…
Actress Natalie Portman told Harvard University seniors to use their inexperience as an asset in their future endeavors. Portman spoke Wednesday at Harvard Class Day, telling the students that the honor was intimidating, the Boston Globe reported. Portman is a 2003 graduate of Harvard, with a degree in psychology. The actress, who has dual American…
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