PERSON: Shabbos Kestenbaum

Political Commentator

Shabbos Kestenbaum (born December 19, 1998) is an American Jewish activist. After the October 7 attacks on Israel, he filed a lawsuit against Harvard University alleging that the university failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from antisemitic harassment and discrimination.

Kestenbaum was born on December 19, 1998, in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Daniel and Hadassah Kestenbaum, British immigrants. He is one of seven siblings and was named Shabbos because he was born on the Jewish Sabbath. His family later moved to the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York, where he attended SAR Academy, a local Modern Orthodox Jewish day school. During his youth, he expressed opposition to the Iraq War in a school journal. He then studied at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem for two years, from 2017 to 2019.

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