(JTA) — An international law firm has withdrawn its sponsorship of Harvard Law School student events after funds were used for a Justice for Palestine event.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…
In 1964, Queens College student Mark Levy – one of the four authors of this piece – traveled to Meridian, Mississippi with the Mississippi Freedom Summer project, registering African Americans to vote. When he tried to go to synagogue in Meridian, before he ascended the stairs outside, a representative of the synagogue came out and…
More than a year ago, Hillel President Eric Fingerhut declared that “‘anti-Zionists’ will not be permitted to speak using the Hillel name or under the Hillel roof, under any circumstances.” That statement came in response to the decision by Jewish students at Swarthmore College to open their doors to speakers and groups that oppose Israel’s…
Dorothy Zellner spoke with a rare passion about how her Jewish upbringing inspired her to join the civil rights movement in the Deep South a half-century ago. Alongside black speakers at a panel at Harvard Hillel, the on-campus center for Jewish students, marking the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom summer, Zellner explained why it…
Hillel International has given its stamp of approval to a Harvard event that included a speaker who supports the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — arguing that, in this case, the Jewish campus group’s own ban on such events doesn’t apply. Harvard University’s Hillel center for Jewish students co-sponsored last night’s panel…
Harvard University Dining Services admitted it made a mistake in deciding to stop buying SodaStream equipment. In a statement e-mailed Thursday to the student newspaper, The Crimson, dining services spokesperson Crista Martin said the service “mistakenly factored political concerns” into its decision. “As the President and Provost have made clear, our procurement decisions should not…
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