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In my second year at Muhlenberg College, I became the Israel leadership co-chair at Muhlenberg Hillel. From the beginning, 蜜桃工作室鈥檚 Israel Leadership Network (ILN) was an important resource for me鈥攁 place I could look to for event ideas, strategies, and accurate information. When I was invited to the White House last year to speak […]
New beginnings can be scary. Whether you’re a wide-eyed first-year or a seasoned senior, stepping into the new school year can be filled with excitement鈥nd a touch of uncertainty.聽I remember my first Shabbat of my first welcome week vividly鈥攖he mix of emotions, the anticipation of what was to come, and the warm feeling of being welcomed into a new community. Don鈥檛 worry, we鈥檝e got your back (to school)!
When I entered UCLA Hillel for the first time, I quite literally stumbled my way into the building. After getting progressively more lost on campus, I somehow ended up one block off campus in front of Hillel. But once there, I found both my community and my people.
I never thought I would go on a Birthright trip.聽 As someone who was born in Israel, speaks fluent Hebrew and visits his family there two or three times a year, I thought I knew everything there was to know about Israel.聽I started opening up to the idea after coming to college.
This year, Pride Month coincides with the reading of Sefer BaMidbar, the Book of Numbers. At the outset of the book, we learn that God spoke to Moses in the Sinai Desert, a topic addressed by the rabbis in BaMidbar Rabbah, an 11th century book of midrash, or rabbinic allegory. Why did God choose to […]
鈥淒id you see they started an encampment this morning?鈥 I did not know who 鈥渢hey鈥 were as I read my friend鈥檚 text on the final day of classes for the spring semester, but I made sure to visit the Emory University quad to see it with my own eyes. There were a couple dozen mostly […]
College is hard, and making time to care for your health and wellness can be even harder. I didn鈥檛 expect that some of my most eye-opening learning about mental health would come from Hillel, but this past fall, I participated in a Jewish Learning Fellowship (JLF) centered on wellness and Judaism at the University of […]
I have lived in Jewish communities throughout my life, but until recently, I never understood what being Jewish actually meant. In fact, when I entered college at Tulane University, I didn’t feel connected to my Jewish identity. However, during my freshman year two years ago, I saw an email from Hillel for a FREE trip […]
I grew up feeling disconnected from my Judaism. I was raised in a household with one Jewish parent, and after my maternal grandfather鈥檚 death while I was in elementary school, my family鈥檚 engagement with Judaism fizzled away. It wasn鈥檛 until I was in my senior year of high school, on the cusp of graduation and […]
As the first member of my family to be born in the United States, I think a lot about my family鈥檚 legacy and my connection to the generations that came before me. This shows up in a lot of ways, but most prominently when I think about my education, and the way I connect with […]
