Why a Harvard rabbi walked off the stage at commencement

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of Chabad at Harvard walked off the stage during the university's commencement after feeling that the ceremony had slandered Israel and Jews, particularly when Nobel Prize-winning speaker Maria Ressa made remarks that sounded antisemitic to him. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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