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(10/18/23 3:05am)
In my role as director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, I work closely with many Israeli scholars, and have many friends in Israel. So the fear and grief created by Hamas’ atrocities hit close to home, and I am grieving for the lives that have been lost, both Israeli and Palestinian. Compounding the situation is my concern about Penn’s community. I have heard things on campus from protestors that have left me stunned, including the claim that it is completely justified to target civilians in Israel, and that if Jews don’t like it, they can go back to Minsk, Moscow and Berlin. Such statements do not help anyone, but they certainly hurt.
(10/22/21 2:14am)
The pandemic has proven that Penn is resilient, but it has also frayed the ties that bind the Penn community together. As a faculty member, I want to describe one challenge that I see, a problem masked by the pandemic to some extent, and propose a way to address it.
(11/12/19 3:49am)
On Friday, Nov. 8, a large group of students from Fossil Free Penn disrupted the University’s Board of Trustees meeting. For half an hour, until the meeting was adjourned, they sang and chanted their sole demand: that Penn President Amy Gutmann, Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen, and Chief Investment Officer Peter Ammon agree to a town hall meeting with students about fossil fuel divestment.