Bye, Bye, Rabbi?

Dear Hillel Community,

Hillel is in a budget crisis.

So began an e-mail plea sent over the Hillel-Undergrad list last week for the organization's leaders to reevaluate talk of getting rid of some of Hillel's rabbis.

Rumors of such budget cuts have been circulating since early January. But when asked at the time if Hillel was considering the possibility of letting rabbis go, Hillel Executive Director Bernie Steinberg denied such talk in an interview with The Crimson.

"The rabbi thing is absolutely false," he said. "Absolutely false. We're looking very seriously into hiring a rabbi."

Well then. Mazel tov?

Let's just hope they spare the Manischewitz.