""In fact," he said, "when so many of you registered, you used much more precise language to describe your identities than just one word - and that's part of what we're hoping you bring with you tonight.""
""I didn't know so many books were written in Hebrew.""
""There are many, many more.""
Nearly 200 Harvard students, faculty, staff, and community members attended the Interfaith Initiative's inaugural "Across This Table" dinner at the Smith Center. Getzel Davis highlighted that participants represented a wide range of identities, from Hindu to Catholic to Taoist to humanist, and noted that many registrants used precise language to describe their identities. The event organized swift, intimate group conversations about faith, religious identity, belief or lack of belief, and how those ideas can shift over time. University President Alan Garber shared a personal anecdote about an interfaith exchange, recalling a visitor's surprise about Hebrew books and his reply. The evening emphasized lived experience, connection, and nuanced self-description as foundations for interfaith understanding.
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