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...self-described “agnostic at best,” Dershowitz was the first to explain the nuances of his “secular, perverse, and confrontational?? Judaism...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs Discuss Jewish Identity | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...this year’s labor protest, a building takeover seemed out of the question, leaving the undergraduate activists to adopt a less confrontational??but perhaps more dangerous—method of dissent...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 1969 Still a Memory | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...small size, relatively low campus profile and reputation as a more serious and Orthodox atmosphere. However, at Princeton in 2003, tempers flared when the university’s Center for Jewish life decided to deny a new Chabad chapter official recognition. The group’s “confrontational?? recruitment tactics were cited as the main reason for the snub. But what Rabbi Zarchi describes as Harvard Chabad’s spirit of “inreach”—“Outreach,” he says, “can imply that...

Author: By Alwa A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chabad v. Hillel | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...know this isn’t about me, but hey, let’s talk about me. You criticized my “confrontational?? questioning of Judith Ryan. Don’t you think that, like [New York Times Magazine reporter] Deborah Solomon, an interviewer should try to ask tough questions of an interviewee? How else are you supposed to get interesting answers...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Richard Bradley | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

...abrasive” in the opening line of their Feb. 26 report, while the Weekly Standard compared him to Archie Bunker in a write-up about student protestors at Harvard. The Boston Globe has made several references to Summers’ “confrontational?? nature over the course of their recent coverage, and the Washington Post, in their Jan. 19th report, mentioned his “reputation for blunt, sometimes brutal comments” in the first paragraph. Meanwhile, when the official transcript of Summers’ lecture was released late last month, The Crimson...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Larry Got His Rep | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

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