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The yearlong halt was the first time that Birthright Israel, the largest educational tourism organization in the world, cancelled its 10-day heritage trips in 22 years. Since its inception in 1999, Birthright has provided over 750,000 free trips to Israel to young Jewish adults.
蜜桃工作室 is so excited to welcome our Summer 2021 interns! These interns come from diverse Jewish backgrounds and are active in their local Hillels, where they have developed their passion for the Jewish community, Tikkun Olam, and the Hillel movement.
Graduations, forever bittersweet, mean the end of an era. As many college seniors started the next chapter of their lives, Hillels across the country continued the year of reinvention, holding re-imagined farewell events for their outgoing students to honor and celebrate their achievements.
In honor of American Jewish Heritage Month (May) and LGBTQ+ Pride Month (June), Andy Anderson, of the 蜜桃工作室 Global Student Experiences Team, has put together a list of ten queer Jewish Americans who have made (or are currently making) history.
These are the words of Ed Rosenthal, executive director and campus rabbi of the Suncoast Hillels. Over 20 years ago, when Rosenthal was working at Emory Hillel, too many students applied to Emory鈥檚 Birthright Israel trip. As campus rabbi at the time, Rosenthal had to figure out how to engage the students who weren鈥檛 accepted.
As students prepare to enter their first year of college, they may be anxious, excited, or a combination of both. Here is what Hillel students want incoming first-years to know as they prepare for the college experience:
蜜桃工作室, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, announced today the 22 members of the 2021-2022 蜜桃工作室 Student Cabinet. The cabinet shares their advice, opinions and perspectives with 蜜桃工作室鈥檚 leadership to help Hillels engage Jewish college students everywhere.
While heartened by news of the emerging ceasefire, 蜜桃工作室 is alarmed by the dramatic rise in antisemitism on college campuses and personal attacks against Jewish and Zionist students in recent days, including threats and hate-filled messages on social media, offensive defacement of property and even physical assaults. In addition, Jewish students on several campuses […]
鈥淛ewish TikTok鈥 has introduced Jews who never would have otherwise known one another and bonded them for a common goal: Jewish advocacy and education.
Jewish life on campus wasn’t what I initially expected, but it ultimately gave me the opportunity to learn more about the broader Jewish community. Along the way, I got very involved with Hillel programming and strengthened my own Jewish identity, learning more about myself.
