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

The rabbi said an ‘evil’ ideology ‘grips far too many of the students and faculty’ at the university.

Protesters hold signs in support of Palestine "resistance" during a rally at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 14, 2023. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

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.