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...
by Esther Reed | May 6, 2014 | Hillel
“Chicken Soup for the Elderly Soul” By Becca Meiner ‘17 “Chicken Soup for the Elderly Soul” is a new community service program at Rutgers Hillel that started this semester (Spring 2014), and I have been so proud to participate in and even help lead this program....
by Esther Reed | Nov 19, 2013 | Hillel
Community for Passionate and Creative Jews By Kate Thomas ‘14 It all started with a cup of coffee. Last spring, Rutgers Hillel’s Reform Rabbi, Heath Watenmaker asked me to consider serving as one of the Peer Network Engagement Interns (PNEI) for the 2013-2014 year....
by Esther Reed | Jan 25, 2013 | Hillel
Expanding the Rutgers Hillel Jewish Network By Ezra Chefitz ’15 I have always felt the need and want to be an active member in the Jewish community. Even as a freshman I was constantly going to Hillel events or helping out in different ways. This is what led me...
by Esther Reed | Aug 1, 2012 | rhcie
What the Jewish Community can learn from Chipotle about strategy The website punk Torah recently published a post titled Three Reasons Why Chipotle Is Better Than Synagogue. According to the article’s author, Chipotle never fails him while synagogues usually fail him,...
