‘Hunting Rats’? Visiting Harvard Prof. Fires Pellet Gun Near Synagogue on Yom Kippur

This post was originally published on here There’s a rather disturbing story out of Brookline, Massachusetts, involving a Harvard professor, a synagogue, and a pellet gun.  Wednesday evening, as Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish holidays, was getting underway, Harvard visiting professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea of Brazil allegedly fired a pellet gun outside of a…