Harvard vs. Aish HaTorah

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The opening of this shiur, in Aish HaTorah’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] I don't know if you're aware, but if you're not, you must be aware of this. Harvard University in January 2024 created a independent task force to do a comprehensive and thorough analysis of rising anti-semitism on Harvard and specifically to Jewish or pro-Israel students on campus. They recently, just this week, released the report. It is astonishing. I really thought it astonishing. I really thought it wouldn't be as bad. I don't know why I thought this. This was perhaps pure naivee, but it's over 300 pages, which is already going to give you a pause. Very dense with footnotes. It was written with incredible detail. And the report is very damning against Harvard. Very, very bad. it the the report first of all gives historic context of its treatments of Jews before October 7th and it was horrible of course post October 7th it horrible of course post October 7th it escalated dramatically Jewish students were forced to hide their Judaism any overt signs of Jewish there were students saying that they feel grateful that they don't look Jewish they don't have Jewish features because they were fearful for their lives the report is very intense very detailed I started reading it I had to stop because it was too disturbing but I do everyone urge everyone to Google Harvard anti-semitism task force report. The university tried suppressing the release of the report for quite a long time. It finally was released and

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1. 0:00[Music] I don't know if you're aware, but if you're not, you must be aware of…
2. 0:30astonishing. I really thought it wouldn't be as bad. I don't know why I thought this.…
3. 1:00horrible of course post October 7th it escalated dramatically Jewish students were forced to hide their…
4. 1:30long time. It finally was released and they actually we were just told yesterday the global…
5. 2:02Warriors which details the incredible anti-semitism that all Jewish students have faced over a number of…
6. 2:33make sense? Like let's learn our you know we know our lanes. Are we going to…
7. 3:05Harvard, not because we want to defeat Harvard. We don't care about Harvard and then we…
8. 3:37class, to a hill event to meet with a rabbi for a coffee, then that's the…
9. 4:07something really that Ishur is very I would obviously I'm biased but is very good at…
10. 4:38sanctifying God's name. It is therefore a positive command in the Torah that's incumbent upon you…

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