The fall semester is underway, and returning with the students are the tensions and controversy that erupted over the Israel-Hamas war last spring. Yet for all the incidents in this wider discourse, I’ll admit a recent rift within the Jewish university community stands out.
This week, new fliers appeared across Harvard’s campus depicting an image of a crying child in Gaza surrounded by rubble and devastation. Underneath the picture is text borrowed from the Yom Kippur Liturgy in both Hebrew and English, stating: anachnu chatanu, we have sinned.
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