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 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 | 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 8, 2015 | Hillel
My Arkansas Experience with Rutgers Hillel and JDRC By Andrew Goldwasser, Class of 2018 “Hey Andrew, would you be interested in coming to Arkansas as an alternative to spring break?” This was the question, which later became my first stepping stone that has...
by Esther Reed | Mar 10, 2015 | Hillel
Reflecting on our Catholic-Jewish Shabbat Dinner Students from the Catholic Student Center joined members of the Hillel community at a recent Shabbat dinner on Friday, February 27, 2015. Below are some reflections on the experience: I really enjoyed this past Shabbat...
by Esther Reed | Mar 4, 2015 | Hillel
National Day of Unplugging By Rabbi Brandon Bernstein, Reform Outreach Initiative Rabbi at Rutgers Hillel There’s an unavoidable irony inherent in tabling on campus for the National Day of Unplugging: namely, the majority of students who ignore me as they pass me by...
by Esther Reed | Feb 24, 2015 | Hillel
The Masorti on Campus Shabbaton By Steve Gotlib, Class of 2018 Arizona State. Binghamton. Columbia. Dickinson. Hofstra. Johns Hopkins. Michigan. NYU. Stockton. Rutgers. Yale. What do all these schools and many more have in common? All had representatives present at...
by Esther Reed | Feb 17, 2015 | Hillel
Rutgers Hillel’s Days Without Hate By Becca Meiner, Class of 2017 Days Without Hate was an incredible learning experience as well as an opportunity for Rutgers students to come together with a purpose and defeat hate. This year, my co-chair, Sara Goldberg ’17, and I...
by Esther Reed | Feb 4, 2015 | Hillel
Two Perspectives from Paris by Lior and Gaëlle Toledano A View from Paris By Lior Toledano My name is Lior, I am a French Jew from Paris and I studied at Rutgers for one year. After the terrorist attacks in my city against the magazine Charlie Hebdo and the kosher...
by Esther Reed | Jan 28, 2015 | Hillel
Rutgers Hillel’s Jewish Peoplehood Project By Keren Freydman, Class of 2018 Filling out my application for the Jewish Peoplehood Project last year, I had no idea what to expect. I had tried googling the project with no success – the program was in its first year, so...
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 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 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....
