by Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | Mar 17, 2015 | Hillel
My First Time Reading Megillah at Rutgers Hillel By Gilana Levavi, Class of 2018 Rutgers Hillel Blogger of the Semester, Spring 2015 This Purim, I read, or chanted, a chapter of Megillat Esther at Rutgers Hillel. The night of Purim, I read Chapter 2 at Koach’s...
by Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | Feb 2, 2015 | Hillel
Soldiers, Friendships, and Family By Lee Mamolen, Class of 2016 Lee traveled to Israel in January 2015 on Birthright with Rutgers Hillel, and while on this life-changing trip, he took some time to write down his thoughts, and he’s shared them with us here:...
by Jeremy Davis | 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 Jeremy Davis | Jan 26, 2015 | Hillel
Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Students Learning and Serving Together By Gilana Levavi, Class of 2018 Rutgers Hillel Blogger of the Semester, Spring 2015 Toward the end of winter break, I found myself immersed in intense discussions about service, faith, and the game...
by Jeremy Davis | 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...
