The Audacity of Purim – Finding Joy in an Unfinished Story
I invite you to join the Jewish tradition, and the community that is celebrating on campus, and live Purim’s truth: that we can laugh, and dance, and make merry, knowing not that things will be easy (because they will not be), but that we will find a way to prevail.
Pluralism-Because and Pluralism-Despite
This week’s message draws its inspiration not from the weekly parsha, but from the Torah that describes and animates the joy we hope to engender with and among Jewish students at Harvard.
Looking Out for One Another – Parshat Mishpatim
Two hours ago, those of us on campus made real our commitment to looking out for and caring about one another – when over a hundred of us gathered in front of the Science Center in a memorial vigil for the Bibas and Lifschitz families.
How We Grow – Parshat Yitro
When we encounter new ideas, new modes of life, and new types of people – what does it mean to relate to them authentically, recognizing what in them is new and potentially life-shaping, without being swept away by their power or popularity?
Raising Our Sights
In the ten days following the settlement, three of the most vocal anti-Zionists have departed, or announced their impending departure, from Harvard’s faculty.
BREAKING: Jewish Students and Harvard Settle Antisemitism Lawsuit
This morning, Harvard University and Students Against Antisemitism, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education – announced that they had settled the plaintiffs’ lawsuit against the university for failing to protect the civil rights of Jewish students from anti-Semitic discrimination.
Our Children, Our Builders
We not only defend Jewish life at Harvard, but ensure that Jewish life is beautiful, ever-growing, and life-shaping – and we do this by supporting our students as they step forward to build their communities.
What We’re Facing and How We’re Facing It
The protesters chanted, “Zionists are not welcome here.” On the contrary. Harvard Hillel is committed to ensuring that all Jews, including Zionists and Israelis, are welcome in every corner of this university.
On Hillel’s Values: Pluralism and Trust after the suspension of JStreetU
Each of us on Hillel’s staff is profoundly committed to holding this fractured Jewish community – by creating a place where each of you holds and supports one another in the fullness of your conflicting commitments to what Judaism requires of each of us.
A Mazal Tov, an Introduction, and a Farewell
For those of you I haven’t met, my name is Jason, and I’m the new director of Harvard Hillel.