by Esther Reed | Apr 12, 2016 | Hillel
Coming Together – Interfaith Shabbat Dinner By Alex Hamilton ’16 and Mudassar Zaidi ’17 Alex Hamilton is a senior in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences majoring in Jewish Studies and Middle-Eastern Studies. He is also the Rutgers Hillel...
by Esther Reed | Dec 16, 2015 | Hillel
Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough By Adam Nachman, Class of 2017 Adam Nachman was one of six Rutgers students who attended the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) Biennial last month, along with Rutgers Hillel staff member Sarah Magida, our Reform Community Educator. If we...
by Esther Reed | 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 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 | Aug 11, 2015 | Hillel
That Time We Led Services in Israel By Paulee Manich ’18 and Julia Motis ’17 Rutgers Hillel Reform Community Co-Chairs After travelling for over 12 hours and only spending one full day in Jerusalem, Rutgers Hillel staff member Greg Yellin asked us to lead the Reform...
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 | 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 Esther Reed | 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 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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....
