A massive space object spotted by scientists last year — and dubbed Oumuamua — could be an alien spaceship, two Jewish Harvard scientists say, NBC reported. An a forthcoming paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb write that Oumuamua “may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to…
(JTA) — In 1922, Harvard University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell had a problem: His school had too many Jews. At least that’s what he thought. As the country’s Jewish population ballooned in the early 20th century, the Jewish proportion of Harvard students increased exponentially, too. In 1900, just 7 percent of the Ivy League school’s…
The Forward recently published their second annual College Guide for Jewish Students. As the outgoing Student Activities Director at Harvard Hillel, I am honored that Harvard was tied for the #1 campus for Jewish life. I am also uncomfortable with the fact this news brought me joy. I admire the Forward’s efforts in providing Jewish…
Natalie Portman has an Oscar, a Harvard degree, a hot-French-ballerina husband, two adorable children, and worldwide acclaim. And she just doesn’t give a damn anymore. Portman, who has maintained a divide between her personal life and her professional work for most of her twenty-four year professional career, has recently been saying whatever she wants. It…
If Jared Kushner wasn’t sure how his former Harvard classmates felt about him, he does now — and it’s not pretty. Per tradition at Harvard College, members of Kushner’s graduating class were invited to submit updates on what they’ve been up in the last decade-and-a-half for the university’s annual 15th Anniversary Report. Kushner declined to…
Last week, we were arrested for participating in a sit-in outside the Israeli Consulate. Two days later, we hosted an anti-occupation seder at Harvard Hillel. The same week, young Jews in New York shut down Senator Schumer’s office, Jews in the Twin Cities closed the local offices of the Jewish Community Relations Council, and across…
Harvard senior Tom Waddick says that he received a threatening call from Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen following a prank he helped pulled on Trump in 2015, Boston Magazine reported. Waddick works at the Harvard Lampoon, the university’s comedy magazine, which is known to pull off pranks. The prank against then-candidate Trump began when Waddick, along…
The Hillel at Harvard University is sponsoring a Seder this Passover that is aligned with a protest movement critical of Israel, a move that required the students to position the event carefully in order to hold it under Hillel’s auspices. Scheduled for the evening of April 5, the seventh night of Passover, the festive meal…
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