by Esther Reed | Sep 10, 2015 | Hillel
How Birthright Changed My Life By Mike Cantor, Class of 2016 The Rutgers Hillel Birthright trip was a very transformative experience for me. I was able to see the land of my ancestors for the first time, and I immediately fell in love with the scenery, the food, the...
by Esther Reed | Aug 31, 2015 | Hillel
How to Rutgers Hillel By Sami Brandspiegel, Class of 2017 Rutgers Hillel Student Board Vice President Sunglasses … Tinted Hamburgers … Cooked (Eventually) Cupcakes … Ready for War Ice Cream … Ice Cream Birthright … Registered...
by Esther Reed | Aug 27, 2015 | Hillel
Welcome to a New Year at Rutgers Hillel! By Alex Hamilton, Class of 2016 Rutgers Hillel Student Board President Energy-filled. Awesome. Spectacular. This year is going to be all these things and more. We have a rock star new board. They’ve told me their plans for the...
by Esther Reed | Aug 11, 2015 | Hillel
That Time We Led Services in Israel By Paulee Manich ’18 and Julia Motis ’17 Rutgers Hillel Reform Community Co-Chairs After travelling for over 12 hours and only spending one full day in Jerusalem, Rutgers Hillel staff member Greg Yellin asked us to lead the Reform...
by Esther Reed | Aug 6, 2015 | Hillel
Finding Love at Rutgers Hillel By Dr. Marianna ’12 and Sam Weiner ’12 In honor of Tu B’Av (the 15th of the month of Av), the Jewish Valentine’s Day this past Friday, we couldn’t help but think about our own relationship. Although we...
by Esther Reed | Jul 30, 2015 | Hillel
Volunteering at RWJ Children’s Specialized Hospital By Sara Goldberg, Class of 2017 Rutgers Hillel Student Board Community Service Co-Chair It all started back in December with a phone call to Hillel, looking for a student to help out at RWJ Children’s...
by Esther Reed | Jul 23, 2015 | Hillel
Changing the World through Rutgers Hillel By Alex Hamilton, Class of 2016 Rutgers Hillel Student Board President An airplane crashes on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The only survivor is a Jewish man. When he is eventually rescued, the...
by Esther Reed | Jul 14, 2015 | Hillel
Senior Year Reflection By Jeffrey Camras, Class of 2015 After four years, college has come to an end. It’s amazing how quickly the time flies by! Looking back, I have many great memories and experiences, and Rutgers Hillel certainly played a role in many...
by Esther Reed | Jul 7, 2015 | Hillel
Connecting to Judaism on Birthright with Rutgers Hillel By Micayla Wynn, Class of 2017 Five months ago if you would have asked me if I were Jewish, I would have been embarrassed, hesitant, and unsure of my answer. My parents raised me with no distinct...
by Esther Reed | Jun 24, 2015 | Hillel
Senior Year Reflection By Ezra Chefitz, Class of 2015 I tossed my hat and packed my things, Eager to see what the future brings. At the same time I found myself wanting to stay, For joining the real world I wanted to delay. The perfect way was to write a...
by Esther Reed | Jun 16, 2015 | Hillel
Senior Year Reflection By Joshua Blachorsky, Class of 2015 When moving on from and looking back at the short time that I had in Rutgers, I cannot think of an institution which had more of an impact on me than RU Hillel. Over the course of my time at Rutgers, I...
by Esther Reed | Jun 9, 2015 | Hillel
Rutgers Hillel’s Student Leadership Day By Danielle Alter, Class of 2018 This being my first Hillel Student Board Leadership Day ever, I had no idea what to expect. Would the day be filled with lecture after lecture describing the same idea in different ways?...
by Esther Reed | Jun 5, 2015 | Hillel
Letter to the Community By Joseph Hollander MS’84 Rutgers Hillel is proud to honor community leaders Joseph Hollander MS’84 and Mitch Frumkin MBA’82 of the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey with the Visionaries in Partnership Award at the...
by Esther Reed | Jun 3, 2015 | Hillel
Taglit-Birthright Israel’s Impact on College Campuses By Jordan Davis ’16 This summer’s Rutgers Hillel Taglit-Birthright Israel participants are currently in Israel and will return from this life-changing trip on Sunday, June 7. Rutgers University junior Jordan...
by Esther Reed | May 20, 2015 | Hillel
Time Really Does Fly When You’re Having Fun By Shira Rosenblum, Class of 2015 When people say that time flies when you’re having fun, they sure do mean it. To think that it was just about four years ago that I was graduating high school and timidly...
by Esther Reed | May 14, 2015 | Hillel
Senior Year Reflection By Aviv Alter, Class of 2015 “Want to check out Hillel tonight?” It was the first Friday of my freshman year at Rutgers and my roommate Emily was hoping to escape our Busch campus suite. “Sure,” I responded, “let’s go.” Emily and I walked...
by Esther Reed | May 6, 2015 | Hillel
Supporting Jewish Community – Why Rutgers Needs Hillel By Peter Shamah, Class of 2017 Peter Shamah is a School of Arts and Science sophomore triple majoring in Jewish studies, art history and history. This piece was first published by campus newspaper The...
by Esther Reed | Apr 30, 2015 | Hillel
Israel through Poetry, Remembrance and Celebration on Campus Am Yisrael Chai By Galina Eilyuk ’16 A climax is about to spread, The deepening of prayers at their peak. Yearning for a light, so pure yet mislead. Huddling and shaking, shedding only but a...
by Esther Reed | Apr 21, 2015 | Hillel
Koach’s New Educational Series By Gilana Levavi, Class of 2018 Rutgers Hillel Blogger of the Semester, Spring 2015 This semester, Koach, the Conservative/Traditional-Egalitarian religious community within Hillel, has undertaken a new initiative: a series of...
by Esther Reed | Apr 17, 2015 | Hillel
Yom Hashoah at Rutgers Hillel – Never Forget By Jeffrey Camras, Class of 2015, Skokie, Illinois Seventy years ago, the Shoah forever changed the course of Jewish history. The Shoah, better known in English as the Holocaust, took the lives of six million Jews...
