One Month In, Inspired by Our Students
After one month in this role, and my first Rosh Hashanah, in this community – I want to share my initial impressions. The first thing that strikes someone who enters the Harvard Jewish community is students’ eagerness eager to personally invest in Jewish life.
Timeliness and Timelessness
Our time is a fraught and contested one: the headlines from America to Israel and across the globe surprise and worry us; we get our news from diverse and irreconcilable sources; the frameworks through which we have long understood the world now come up short in helping us navigate our rapidly shifting reality.
Sustaining Our Segment of the Home Front
Alongside each of you, I and every member of the Hillel community has spent the past week consuming the news voraciously and anxiously; and unceasingly praying, verbally or otherwise, for the safety and victory of our brothers and sisters in Israel.
Mazal Tov To The Class of 2025
Please join me in welcoming the class of 2025 into the fellowship of Harvard’s Jewish alumni.
Sarah and Yaron
I am dedicating this message to focusing our community’s grieving hearts and worried minds on the murder of Sarah Milgirm and Yaron Lischinsky, may their memories always be for a blessing.
Your Representative on the front lines of the Jewish Future
There is no more effective or efficient way to support today’s Jewish students, and the Jewish life of Harvard, than by supporting Harvard Hillel.
Jewish Life at Harvard: Doing Our Part
The release of the university task force’s report on antisemitism marked not the end of this chapter, and not the beginning of the end – but the end of the beginning.
Teachers and (their and our) Errors
A story in this week’s parasha, Shmini, becomes the locus of our tradition’s formulation of what it means to learn, by way of articulating what it means to be a student.
Science and the Range of Jewish Values
This morning I published a statement, on behalf of Harvard Hillel and our entire community, rejecting the fight against anti-Semitism as justification for the government’s most recent actions.
Trust and Courage
The stakes at Harvard are existential: nationally – the future of American higher education and science, and, most of all, the rule of law and guarantee of due process.