TOMORROW

Shabbos Kestenbaum

Student

A recent graduate of Harvard University, researching the intersections between public policy and contemporary Jewish life in America, and the founder and President of the Harvard Divinity School Jewish Student Association, Shabbos Kestenbaum attracted enormous media attention when he announced in January 2024 that he was suing the university for its failure to protect Jewish students from campus antisemitism. As pro-Hamas encampments and protests sprang up on campuses across the country, Kestenbaum was among many Jewish students to experience antisemitic harassment — in his case, trolling from a member of the Harvard faculty which sparked his legal action. Kestenbaum has refused to be driven out of Harvard, observing in an interview, "There's nothing our ideological adversaries would like more than for Zionists to leave campus."