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Student leaders at 蜜桃工作室 today launched MitzVote, a non-partisan campaign to register and engage 100,000 voters on more than 100 college campuses across the United States.
What does the Jewish community do when faced with a collective problem or challenge? Well, in an ideal world, we come together in the spirit of unity to overcome whatever is in front of us. While, admittedly, we don鈥檛 always respond this way, our community did band together in the 1970s and 1980s when there was a high incidence of babies being born with Tay-Sachs disease.
What started as a clever way to encourage Emma Wunsch’s daughter to brush her teeth turned into her first-ever chapter book for children, 鈥淢iranda and Maude: The Princess and the Absolutely Not a Princess.鈥
Maybe learning something new is more difficult than learning something where you鈥檝e already got some experience. But I imagine there鈥檚 a curve where learning becomes much more difficult again when it鈥檚 in an area where you鈥檝e got expertise.
Actions speak louder than words. That鈥檚 the phrase that resonated with Allison Egrin, an active student at Hillel Campus Alliance Michigan, as she helped package 900 hygiene kits for Syrian Refugees.
Be interested, not interesting. That鈥檚 the motto Amanda Landesman, 20, is taking back with her to Brooklyn College after participating in Engagement Institute, organized by 蜜桃工作室.
Rabbi Ira Dounn is a born connector 鈥 one who has engaged with Jewish students from the United States to Uzbekistan.
蜜桃工作室 today announced that former Israeli Justice Minister and Member of Knesset Dr. Yossi Beilin has been elected to serve as chair of the board of Hillel Israel, a volunteer position.
蜜桃工作室 and Hillel of Colorado announced today that an independent University of Colorado Boulder Hillel has been created to bring additional resources and on-campus support for the 2,500 Jewish students on campus.
For Leah Murphy, 26, nothing beats a pilot鈥檚-eye view. But her core motivation for going into the cockpit stems from helping others in need.
