by Esther Reed | Jan 20, 2015 | Hillel
Campus Conversation By Emily Gutowski, Class of 2015 Question: Where can you find a diverse group of students from completely different backgrounds—religions, organizations, ethnicities, interests—enjoying a dinner together and talking about Israel? Answer: The David...
by Esther Reed | Jan 7, 2015 | Hillel
Helping my Students to Build a Conservative Community By Rabbi Esther Reed Senior Associate Director for Jewish Campus Life One thing that makes Rutgers Hillel unique as an organization is how we empower our student leaders. Hillel encourages our students to...
by Esther Reed | Dec 31, 2014 | Hillel
What Does It Mean To Be Jewish? by Andrew Getraer, Executive Director Rutgers: A Great Place to be Jewish! Dear Friends: Winter Break is here, 2014 is ending, and campus is quiet – except for the sounds of construction at 70 College Avenue, site of the...
by Esther Reed | Dec 23, 2014 | Hillel
Two Roads Diverged: My Personal Journey By Noah Whittenburg, Class of 2015 One of my favorite poems is called The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and the first stanza starts out saying, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/ And sorry I could not travel both/ And be...
by Esther Reed | Dec 15, 2014 | Hillel
Not Your Ordinary Spring Break By Fallon Gokhman, Class of 2018 I’m ashamed to admit that I was not very enthusiastic before my first trip to Oklahoma this past March. The few days leading up to spring break, all my friends were enthusiastically boasting about their...
by Esther Reed | Dec 8, 2014 | Hillel
Happy Hanukkah from Rutgers Hillel! Rutgers Hillel is celebrating Hanukkah on campus in a variety of ways. We invite all students to join in the fun! Graduate Hillel (Jewish Graduate Students at Rutgers) had an awesome Hanukkah party on Sunday night, December 7th....
by Esther Reed | Dec 2, 2014 | Hillel
Reflections on the Rutgers Hillel Groundbreaking Groundbreaking for the new Eva and Arie Halpern Hillel House took place Friday, November 21, 2014. Students, alumni and supporters of Rutgers Hillel joined together to celebrate as construction commences on our future...
by Esther Reed | Nov 13, 2014 | Hillel
RU Reform Rocked Out with Penn RJC By Julia Motis, Reform Community Chair, Class of 2017 This past weekend, November 7-8, the Rutgers Hillel Reform community took a ride into the other city to share a Shabbat with the Reform Jewish Community (RJC) at the University of...
by Esther Reed | Nov 6, 2014 | Hillel
Days Without Hate By Halli James, Class of 2014, Co-Chair of Days Without Hate 2013 Days Without Hate is an annual student-led community service program at Rutgers Hillel that unites the Rutgers community to make a statement that we care about our social environment....
by Esther Reed | Nov 4, 2014 | Hillel
Jewish-Muslim Dinner and Dialogue in the Sukkah On October 12, 2014, Rutgers Hillel welcomed Jewish and Muslim students for an interfaith dialogue and dinner. At this dinner, we spoke about the joy of celebrating holidays with friends and family in a...
by Esther Reed | Oct 29, 2014 | Hillel
My Jewish Foundation By Yonatan Gershon, Class of 2018, Dallas, TX This Shabbat, October 31-November 1, 2014, Koach: the Conservative community at Rutgers Hillel is gathering the alumni of all Jewish youth groups, summer camps, and gap year programs for a nostalgic...
by Esther Reed | Oct 24, 2014 | Hillel
The Shabbos Project at Rutgers University: Keeping it Together This Shabbat, October 24-25, Rutgers Hillel is participating in a special world-wide event called The Shabbos Project. The Shabbos Project is a unique, international grassroots Jewish identity movement...
by Esther Reed | Oct 15, 2014 | Hillel
What Makes Sukkot at Rutgers Special? By Rutgers Hillel Student Board 2014-2015 “Sukkot gives me a chance to meet lots of new students in the sukkah who I don’t normally have a chance to meet.” Seth Deneroff, President, Class of 2015 “The best part of Sukkot on campus...
by Esther Reed | Oct 8, 2014 | Hillel
Conflict and Hope on Campus From: Andrew Getraer Originally sent October 2, 2014 at 7:26 PM Subject: Urgent Hillel Update Dear Friends of Rutgers Hillel: We held an event this week that has caused much controversy and will be featured on Fox News TONIGHT at 9...
by Esther Reed | Oct 7, 2014 | Hillel
Israel and its Changing Borders By Asher Malech, Class of 2018 My name is Asher Malech, and I’m a freshman in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. I grew up in a Jewish community, attended Jewish schools and last year I decided to spend the year learning in a...
by Esther Reed | Oct 2, 2014 | Hillel
Opening the Gates to Jewish-Muslim Dialogue By Sarah Harpaz, Class of 2016 Sarah is a junior at the School of Arts and Sciences and Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, majoring in planning and public policy. Tuesday night I attended an event hosted by the...
by Esther Reed | Sep 24, 2014 | Hillel
Happy New Year from Rutgers Hillel By Rabbi Brandon Bernstein, Reform Outreach Initiative Rabbi An inescapable consequence of my decision to live in Highland Park without a car is the twice-daily question I must now face: how am I going to get from here (my apartment)...
by Esther Reed | Sep 2, 2014 | Hillel
Discovering My Home on Birthright By Amber Ricks, Class of 2016 “What are you crazy?” “You shouldn’t go, it’s so dangerous.” “Aren’t you scared?” “Can’t you go another time?” These are just a small sampling of the statements and questions that I had to respond to when...
by Esther Reed | Aug 25, 2014 | Hillel
Living Under The Dome By Joella Kudron ’13 and Aaron Marcus ’12 It was a Friday afternoon in early June when we found out about the kidnapping of three young Israeli teens on their way home for Shabbat. The youths were traveling through the Judean Hills hoping to...
by Esther Reed | Aug 20, 2014 | Hillel
The New Ten Commandments By Brian Thomas, Class of 2015, Whippany, NJ As a Rutgers student that grew up in a loosely-practicing Jewish household and attended synagogue and youth programs associated with the Reform movement, I have long struggled with my own...
