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....
by Esther Reed | Nov 4, 2014 | Hillel
Jewish-Muslim Dinner and Dialogue in the Sukkah On October 12, 2014, Rutgers Hillel welcomed Jewish and Muslim students for an interfaith dialogue and dinner. At this dinner, we spoke about the joy of celebrating holidays with friends and family in a...
by Esther Reed | Oct 29, 2014 | Hillel
My Jewish Foundation By Yonatan Gershon, Class of 2018, Dallas, TX This Shabbat, October 31-November 1, 2014, Koach: the Conservative community at Rutgers Hillel is gathering the alumni of all Jewish youth groups, summer camps, and gap year programs for a nostalgic...
by Esther Reed | Oct 24, 2014 | Hillel
The Shabbos Project at Rutgers University: Keeping it Together This Shabbat, October 24-25, Rutgers Hillel is participating in a special world-wide event called The Shabbos Project. The Shabbos Project is a unique, international grassroots Jewish identity movement...
by Esther Reed | Oct 15, 2014 | Hillel
What Makes Sukkot at Rutgers Special? By Rutgers Hillel Student Board 2014-2015 “Sukkot gives me a chance to meet lots of new students in the sukkah who I don’t normally have a chance to meet.” Seth Deneroff, President, Class of 2015 “The best part of Sukkot on campus...
by Esther Reed | Oct 7, 2014 | Hillel
Israel and its Changing Borders By Asher Malech, Class of 2018 My name is Asher Malech, and I’m a freshman in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. I grew up in a Jewish community, attended Jewish schools and last year I decided to spend the year learning in a...
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 24, 2014 | Hillel
Happy New Year from Rutgers Hillel By Rabbi Brandon Bernstein, Reform Outreach Initiative Rabbi An inescapable consequence of my decision to live in Highland Park without a car is the twice-daily question I must now face: how am I going to get from here (my apartment)...
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 20, 2014 | Hillel
The New Ten Commandments By Brian Thomas, Class of 2015, Whippany, NJ As a Rutgers student that grew up in a loosely-practicing Jewish household and attended synagogue and youth programs associated with the Reform movement, I have long struggled with my own...
by Esther Reed | Jul 8, 2014 | Hillel
Rutgers Hillel’s Jewish Peoplehood Project By Lillie Hannon, Class of 2017 When I was first offered a spot in Rutgers Hillel’s Jewish Peoplehood Project, I wasn’t at all sure what I was going to be getting into. It was in its first year, and we were...
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 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...
