Harvard Hillel Gossip and Politics News

The first education programming we get this year is a discussion about Jewish sexual ethics?

How might Judaism’s teachings on sex surprise, and even shock us from our contemporary point of view? What does it mean to move through the world with a “Jewish sexual ethic?” Does, or can, traditional Judaism intersect with sex-positive feminism? What exactly is “kosher sex”?

This reminds me of something…but I can’t seem to put my finger on it. Oh, right! Now I remember.

Hillel hosted “Kosher Sex: The Game Show” in Adams Lower Common Room (LCR) on Monday as part of the week’s Jewbilation festivities. Done in Jeopardy-fashion, the trivia game tapped into potentially touchy areas, including the category “I ‘Know’ You Biblical Relations.” … But the underwhelming attendance—a mere 13—seemed to indicate that it wasn’t a priority for many Hillel members.

Now, if I recally correctly, half the people in attendance at Kosher Sex had to be dragged there because the planners were worried that attendance would be pathetic. And it was pathetic. So why are we doing Kosher Sex again? Or, at the very least, why aren’t we doing something else too?

By the way, check out this awesome link to some random blog that picked up on the Crimson’s trashing of Kosher Sex last year.

Since the very beginning, this blog has had two central goals. First, to get AH appointed Crimson Cutie. Second, to raise awareness about KP’s appetite for absolute and total control. Friends, we are now half way there.

Now we just have to deal with KPoz. It will be tough. He has complete control of the Hillel propoganda machine: postering, website, and, umm, postering. Any attempt at protest and we can expect to be crushed by him and his communications team. He has complete control over the email lists. As moderator of all 20 of the Hillel related email lists (seriously! why do we have so many?) he can squash criticism before it even starts. Also, the Hillel by-laws stipulate that all position papers must be turned into him. He runs the elections. A very powerful, and dangerous, man.

Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to remove him from power.

XI.D. The Vice President for Communications can be removed from the Steering Committee by a unanimous vote of the other Steering Committee members if s/he is being lax in the performance of her/his responsibilities.

OK, great. So now just need to check out what his responsibilities are. So let’s go to the official document, the bylaws, which contain what his responsibilities are… Oh no. I’m too late. KPoz has struck again. KPoz has removed his responsibilities from the bylaws. Seriously: Article V is empty, there’s nothing there.

…Article V: Communications Committee

[nothing!]

Article VI: Community Building Committee

The Community Building Committee shall…

May God help us all.

No, absolutely not. But it makes for one hell of a headline, no?

Is Claire worried?

The funniest Harvard publication is Freeze Magazine. I love them. I love their slogan–”Crimson is the new black.” (And someday we will elect a crimson president). I love their articles. This one caught my eye: “Why You Don’t Have a Boyfriend: The Reasons You Haven’t Thought Of”.

• Body odor
• You have a girlfriend
• You’re fat (see p.2 for Freeze Dieting Tips!!! LOL PINK.)

The only problem is that I can’t really write a post just on Freeze because it has absolutely nothing to do with Harvard Hillel. So I was tempted to ask everybody to nominate SC hottie AH for the Freeze College Magazine Cutie of the Week. But then I thought better. Actually, no, I still think it would be awesome. So, if you’re one of my ten readers please nominate AH!!!

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Also, I have some leaks from the SC meeting. Looks like there will be significant pre-gaming before John Harvard’s Bar Mitzvah…and SC is happy about it. Here’s the quote from the agenda: “Very excited to have pre-games for the event. I have heard a lot of positive feedback, so far ~ hopefully this will translate into an actually fun event.” Now, maybe I’m misinterpreting what’s going on. Also, I’m a loser who blogs, so my idea of a fun time is probably skewed. But if our hopes on having a fun event depend on people drinking before the event, eh, maybe the event isn’t so fun. Just a thought. Correct me if I’m wrong in the comments. [Update: It's been pointed out to me that I'm wrong about this, and that this is a quite normal thing for a member of SC to be excited about.]

Also, I was impressed by the list of things on the agenda for CommRel. They included “Homeless shelter shift, genetic screning info session, manicure for the cure”. The first two sound worthy, I have no idea what the third one is but presumably it’s trying to cure something bad. Not sure what the “John Harvard’s Bar Mitzvah Project” is, but sounds intriguing.

Finally, Education has one thing on the agenda: “Inviting professors to Shabbat dinner?” Doesn’t strike me as a fantastic idea, but at least it’s something. Education doesn’t feel like it’s been particularly active so far this year, and we here at HillelGossip eagerly await some more creative educational opportunities.

The only committee who didn’t post updates is Shabbat and Holidays.

The only logical conclusion from this post is that this blogger is a member of SC.