Can Hillel listen to its Jewish neighborhood?
(RNS)-- The fall term is underway, and returning with the trainees are the stress and debate that emerged over the Israel-Hamas war last spring. For all the events in this broader discourse, I'll confess a current rift within the Jewish university neighborhood stands out.
Today, brand-new fliers appeared throughout Harvard's school portraying a picture of a sobbing kid in Gaza surrounded by debris and destruction. Beneath the image is text obtained from the Yom Kippur Liturgy in both Hebrew and English, specifying: anachnu chatanuwe have actually sinned. These posters were produced by a group called the Halakhic Left, a brand-new progressive Jewish company that looks for to develop a home for watchful Jews who protest the Israeli profession of Palestinian area and who promote for a cease-f...