The first Jewish president of UC Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, describes himself as “a Zionist and politically centrist,” whose challenges include campus BDS; “the Muslim undergraduate college, Zaytuna” across the street; and its co-founder, UCB lecturer Hatem Bazian, to whom Lehmann accurately alludes as “a vociferous and vitriolic pro-Palestinian voice from Nablus.” The rabbi’s goal of “making sure the culture is not toxic in any way” is both laudable and daunting.
