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Hillel Leader Faces Possible Ouster; After dramatic growth of Columbia Hillel, board seeks executive director with more managerial skills.
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Rabbi Charles Sheer, a fixture at the Barnard-Columbia Hillel for over three decades who is widely credited with building it into one of the most vibrant campus Jewish groups in the country, may be forced to leave the institution at the end of the semester. But not if a group of alumni -- who had amassed almost 600 signatures on an on-line petition by mid-week -- has its way.
The specifics around Rabbi Sheer's potential departure are not entirely clear, and few of the players involved ...
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Hillel Leader Faces Possible Ouster; After dramatic growth of Columbia Hillel, board seeks executive director with more managerial skills.
The Jewish Week
; Wiener, Julie The Jewish Week 03-12-2004 Rabbi Charles Sheer, a fixture at the Barnard-Columbia Hillel for over three decades who is widely credited with building it into one of the most vibrant campus Jewish groups in the country, may be forced to leave the institution at the end of the semester.
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Jewish Chaplain: Columbia Abandoned Us; Rabbi blasts administration
The Jewish Week
; ... view, or why it was offering that point of view," said Professor E.R. Shipp, a black woman who is also a columnist for the Daily News. She said the idea is not to muzzle Baker "because he does represent a point of view one can hear among some segments of the ...
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Homecoming At Last: As Rabbi Charles Sheer prepares to dedicate school's first Jewish center, he looks back on three decades at Columbia University.
The Jewish Week
; Lipman, Steve The Jewish Week 03-31-2000 Homecoming At Last: As Rabbi Charles Sheer prepares to dedicate school's first Jewish center, he looks back on three decades at Columbia University. STEVE LIPMAN STAFF WRITER During 31 years at Columbia University, Rabbi Charles Sheer has seen a succession
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New Leader At Columbia Hillel; Online petition wants longtime director Rabbi Sheer to stay in some capacity.
The Jewish Week
; Dickter, Adam The Jewish Week 05-07-2004 Simon Klarfeld, a London native with a diverse background in Jewish affairs, has been named executive director at the Columbia-Barnard Hillel, ending a two-year search that prompted a groundswell of support for the current director, Rabbi Charles Sheer. More
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Edward Said, 67, Columbia Professor Recalled As 'Cultured' Israel Critic
The Jewish Week
; Lipman, Steve The Jewish Week 10-03-2003 Rabbi Charles Sheer doesn't recall many details about a program sponsored by a Jewish organization that he attended at Columbia University about 20 years ago -- its date or location or theme. But he remembers that Edward Said was one of the panelists. "He
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Columbia Probing Mideast Studies; Presidential panel, meeting in secret, has testimony about anti-Israel activity
The Jewish Week
; Dickter, Adam The Jewish Week 04-16-2004 A committee appointed by the president of Columbia University for months has been quietly probing allegations of bias and intimidation by faculty, particularly in Middle East studies, The Jewish Week has learned. The panel convened by President Lee Bollinger
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From Hillel To Hospital
The New York Jewish Week
; A rabbi by training, a lecturer and program director and fundraiser during three-plus decades as Jewish chaplain at Columbia University, Charles Sheer says one of his most formative on-the-job experiences was a pair of memorial services for young Columbia students. He attended the first, for an
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Can $11.5 Million Buy A Home At Columbia? New Kraft Center could bridge divide between observant and unaffiliated Jewish students on campus.
The Jewish Week
; Brown, Elicia The Jewish Week 04-21-2000 Can $11.5 Million Buy A Home At Columbia? New Kraft Center could bridge divide between observant and unaffiliated Jewish students on campus. ELICIA BROWN STAFF WRITER With his long, flowing beard and tall, rimless hat, Jacob Birnbaum would cut a striking
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Columbia president Blasts Campus Anti-Semitism: A month after
The Jewish Week
; Eric J. Greenberg The Jewish Week 11-10-1995 Columbia President Blasts Campus Anti-Semitism: A month after. publication of article by leader of black students, president alludes to Rabin murder in condemning language of hate. ERIC J. GREENBERG Staff Writer Nearly a month after the publication of a
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School Chiefs Reject Divestment Call: Columbia, Barnard presidents say petition unfairly targets Israel
The Jewish Week
; The presidents of Columbia University and Barnard College are publicly opposing a faculty-sponsored campaign calling for their institutions to divest from Israel. Lee Bollinger of Columbia and Judith Shapiro of Barnard issued written statements last week as a group of faculty and staff members
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