Hillel retracted its Harvard brief. It can’t restore the broken trust
Recommended Stories ADF’s war on mail-order abortion I survived the fall of Georgia. In his view, it raises broader questions about when major Jewish organizations choose to deploy their institutional influence and on whose behalf.“It’s not merely that Hillel International decided to defend Harvard University,” Kestenbaum said. “It raises the question of why they didn’t support Jewish students at Tulane, Harvard, Columbia and Penn with similar alacrity and similar legal support.”AdvertisementFor Kestenbaum, the withdrawal itself is not the central issue.“The broader question isn’t why they retracted it,” he said.
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- ▪“It raises the question of why they didn’t support Jewish students at Tulane, Harvard, Columbia and Penn with similar alacrity and similar legal support.”AdvertisementFor Kestenbaum, the withdrawal itself is not the central issue.“The broad
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On the eve of Tisha B’Av, the Jewish calendar’s annual day of mourning commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other historic tragedies, Hillel International found itself at the center of a controversy that raises difficult questions about Jewish leadership, institutional accountability, and who speaks for Jewish students at a time of unprecedented campus antisemitism.This is not simply a story about an amicus brief that was filed and then withdrawn. It is a story about trust. Recommended Stories ADF’s war on mail-order abortion I survived the fall of Georgia.
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