“It could be both,” said Dreben.
“Sounds good to me,” agreed Cushman.
Ahmed, the student from Pakistan, enjoyed the event.
“It felt a little like section,” she said. “But I liked it.”
The conversation at her table then turned to kosher dining laws.
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For Steinberg, the Hillel director, the passages had a message of coexistence.
“Where would there be evil doers, if we learned to live in harmony with the world around us,” he said. “It struck me this morning, that this is maybe a goal we have in common.”
Friedlander agreed. “And so we thank God for sharing our meal in this temporary space,” he said.
—Staff writer Katie R. Zavadski can be reached at katie.zavadski@college.harvard.edu