Rabbi Quits Harvard Anti-Semitism Advisory Group After President’s Congress Testimony

The only rabbi on Harvard University’s recently formed anti-Semitism advisory committee has stepped down on Thursday, citing frustration over Harvard President Claudine Gay’s testimony before Congress. “The short explanation is that both events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped,” David Wolpe, a rabbi from California and visiting scholar at Harvard’s Divinity School, wrote on X. Ms. Gay, whose initial response to the Hamas terror attacks on Israel drew intense backlash from alumni, donors, and lawmakers, founded the committee in late October to “frame an agenda and strategy for combating anti-Semitism” on the Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus....