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…
Harvard University’s president has requested an investigation into the decision by the university’s dining service to stop buying SodaStream equipment. Drew Faust asked for an investigation into the decision, Provost Alan Garber told The Harvard Crimson student newspaper on Wednesday night. The request came following an article written earlier in the day by the newspaper…
Harvard University Dining Service has halted purchases of SodaStream equipment, after Palestinian students and their supporters protested. The dining service had been purchasing water machines from a company acquired by the Israeli company SodaStream, which has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement due to its factory located in Maale Adumim, a…
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