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.
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?