“People will go out to Brookline and take the bus just to get some pizza. Having a restaurant in Harvard Square would be fantastic,” said Arun A. Viswanath ’13, outgoing president of Harvard Hillel.
Rebecca Goldstein ’13 said she sees the success of a kosher meat restaurant depending on the community.
“Now that there’s a big kosher community in Cambridge, I think they would get a lot of business,” Goldstein said.
Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, Orthodox advisor at Harvard Hillel, said she thinks the presence of kosher restaurant option in the Square could contribute to students’ decisions on where to attend school.
“[This restaurant] could help the Jewish community grow and flourish. People are surprised that there’s so little here that’s kosher,” she said.
—Staff writer Kerry M. Flynn can be reached at kflynn@college.harvard.edu.