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...We’re really fortunate to have Ramadan during the school year, and having a daily iftar [break-fast dinner] with 100 people forces a sense of shared responsibility,” said HIS President Ali A. Zaidi ’08, noting that Ramadan will soon occur during the summer because it falls 11 days earlier every year...
Happily for your high school friends who ended up at Tufts, bustling Davis Square offers up a hip, inviting alternative called the Diesel Cafe, which does to java what its designer namesake did for jeans. Earlier this week, this writer joined another hungry Jew for a Yom Kippur break-fast at the popular dive, where a steady stream of college students, aging metalheads, and hip foreign types mingled over glowing laptops and copies of Kierkegaard...
...Tellawi ’08. After the fast is broken and prayers are said, students “give a five-minute naseeha, which translates as ‘advice,’” said Zahra Kassam ’07. “It’s nice because you don’t usually get to hear students’ perspectives on spirituality.” Students said Ramadan facilitates community building. “It’s nice to see others who are fasting and breaking fast at the same time...
...days earlier, star economist Andrei N. Shleifer ’82 played host to Summers for a break-fast at his Newton home on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement—just three months after a federal judge found that Shleifer and a colleague had conspired to defraud the federal government, leaving Harvard liable for up to $34.8 million in damages. (Please see sidebar, below...
...accommodate these students, Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) has organized for a nightly break-fast meal in Ticknor Lounge, specifically catered to Muslim dietary restrictions...