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 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 14, 2014 | Hillel
Life Under Fire By Jordan Davis, Class of 2016 For the past two and a half months, I was blessed with the opportunity to live in Israel. Unless you’re actively avoiding the news, you know that Israel is under fire (#IsraelUnderFire). It’s true. It’s...
by Esther Reed | Jul 24, 2014 | Hillel
A poem about the current situation in Israel By Anat Litwok Anat Litwok grew up in Marlboro, NJ and attended Rutgers University. In 2011, when she was 20 years old, Anat made aliyah and was inducted into the IDF as a ‘lone soldier’. She now lives on a kibbutz...
by Esther Reed | Jul 16, 2014 | Hillel
Tuesday was a big day in Israel! By Sammy Reed-Schwartz Sammy Reed-Schwartz is 9 years old and visiting Israel for the first time with his family. His mother, Rabbi Esther Reed, is the Senior Associate Director of Rutgers Hillel. Follow Sammy’s first visit to Israel...
by Esther Reed | Jul 15, 2014 | Hillel
Boots on the Ground or Birds in the Air? By Gedalyah Reback, Class of 2008 For everyone who believes a ground invasion will put a dent into Hamas, I am not coming to burst your bubble from some sort of diplomatic or philosophical perspective. From a strategic...
by Esther Reed | Jul 2, 2014 | Hillel
Rutgers Vigil for Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali By Aviv Alter, Class of 2015, Morganville, NJ Monday afternoon, like many of you, I heard of the devastating news: Eyal, Naftali, and Gilad would not be returning home to their families. Their mothers and fathers, brothers...
by Esther Reed | Jun 24, 2014 | Hillel
Israel: A Home Like No Other By Galina Eilyuk, Class of 2016 Growing up in a Modern Orthodox community, I was constantly exposed to Judaism, religion, Israel, etc. As I grew up, I fled away from my roots and decided I wanted to be a part of a more secular world; I...
by Esther Reed | Jun 12, 2014 | Hillel
Falling in Love with Israel and Each Other at Rutgers Hillel By Rabbi Scott Roland ’05 and Aviva Cohen Roland ’06 I don’t think that we can overemphasize the role that Rutgers Hillel and Israel Inspires played in our lives. After having met at a Rutgers Hillel...
by Esther Reed | Jun 3, 2014 | Hillel
Israel Inspires and My Journey Home By Rebecca Markowitz ’04 My memory of Israel Inspires is one of dizzying excitement, and not of one particular moment. I remember feeling proud to be Jewish, to gather people together and to make a big deal of the situation on...
by Esther Reed | May 28, 2014 | Hillel
How Israel Inspires Empowered Me By Rahel Bayar ’04 Living on campus during the start of the second intifada could have been categorized as terrifying. Rutgers University was a hotbed of anti-Israeli and anti-semitic sentiment. We were a student body dominated...
by Esther Reed | May 20, 2014 | Hillel
Reflections of a Rutgers Hillel Student President, 10 Years Later By Rebecca Leibowitz, Class of 2004 It’s early September in the year 2000 and I’m a newly knighted freshwoman at Rutgers College. With the support and patience of my parents, I move into Clothier Hall...
by Esther Reed | May 13, 2014 | Hillel
Birthright with Rutgers Hillel: Going Home Again By Susan Teplinsky, Class of 2016, Fair Lawn, NJ A couple months ago, I received an email stating that students who had previously travelled to Israel on an organized tour were finally eligible to return to Israel on...
