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Writer. #LitCitizen. Latest book: BIRTHRIGHT: POEMS (@BooksKelsay). Current WiP: #KidLit. Tweets on matters bookish and/or #Jewish.
Jun 1, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
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Friday evening, I welcomed #Shabbat with a lovely and inspiring online event hosted by @HarvardHillel.

Attendees ranged from a member of the Class of 1971 to the current undergraduate Hillel president, a rising junior. (1/5) It was still daylight when the event ended. Checking email, I found a message from Harvard President Larry Bacow, on #antisemitism.

It included this worrying line: "In the past two weeks, Harvard Hillel has been vandalized twice." harvard.edu/president/news… (2/5)
Aug 6, 2019 7 tweets 6 min read
"If anything, this is a case of Jews seeking inclusion within Ethnic Studies. Their objection is rather that the draft curriculum erases Jews from the Ethnic Studies pantheon...." —@schraubd on a controversy of which I was heretofore blissfully unaware: dsadevil.blogspot.com/2019/08/on-cal…. @schraubd "That this is a call for inclusion, not exclusion, is even more important to stress in the Mizrahi Jewish case. Jews from places like Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt have every right to be included in an 'Arab American Studies' curriculum;"+