by Esther Reed | Jun 1, 2016 | Hillel
It’s a Small World After All By Sami Brandspiegel, Class of 2017 Rutgers Hillel Student Board Vice President 2015-2016 Rutgers Hillel Student Board President 2016-2017 “Oh, you must know her! She’s Jewish!” is a common phrase that I hear when I...
by Esther Reed | May 19, 2016 | Hillel
Building Bridges on Campus By Alex Hamilton, Class of 2016 Rutgers Hillel Student Board President 2015-2016 When I started this year, I set out to do three things: to connect more organizations to Hillel, to encourage more inter-Hillel work, and to help the Rutgers...
by Esther Reed | Jan 13, 2016 | Hillel
Welcome Back! By Alex Hamilton, Class of 2016 Rutgers Hillel Student Board President Brrrr. It’s really chilly here in my New Jersey apartment. I didn’t know what a winter really felt like until I started here at Rutgers. The winters here are far longer and far...
by Esther Reed | Oct 2, 2015 | Hillel
Rutgers Hillel Leadership Day By Danielle Alter, Class of 2018 Rutgers Hillel Student Board Holiday Co-Chair After an incredible summer filled with adventure and relaxation, the coming of September means getting back into the groove of things and getting back...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
