Learning from the Hillel SandwichPosted by: Wayne L. Firestone, President on 4/15/2008 11:29:00 AMFrom the April 18, 2008 edition of The New York Jewish Week.
As the holiday of Passover approaches, it is a good time to reflect on the name of our organization and the central role that Hillel plays in the observance of the Passover seder. For millennia, Jews around the world have partaken of the “Hillel sa... Read More >>
Hillel's Mission: Jewish StudentsPosted by: Jeff Rubin, Associate Vice President for Communications on 4/8/2008 4:40:00 PMThe recent JTA article on non-Jews participating in Hillel activities has stimulated a remarkable amount of interest and discussion, online and in the real world, among Hillel professionals, stakeholders and community members. The article created the misconception that, somehow, Hillel had shifted its focus from Jewish college students to the campus in general. This is just not the case. Hillel... Read More >>
Our Violent Campuses?Posted by: Jeff Rubin, Associate Vice President for Communications on 2/19/2008 4:40:00 PMTo judge by mainstream media coverage of higher education, universities are overpriced and overly violent.
Less than a year after the Virginia Tech massacre and within one week of each other, two murder-suicides at Louisiana Technical College and Northern Illinois University claimed a total of nine lives.
The "violent" university is back in... Read More >>
"I've been to the mountaintop..."Posted by: Danielle Freni, Senior Communications Associate on 1/17/2008 12:50:00 PMMonday is observed as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day throughout the United States in honor of his birthday (January 15, 1929).
While most famously associated with African-American history and the American Civil Rights movement, Dr. King is also lauded by the American Jewish community as an outspoken proponent of Israel and Jewish civil rights. Just two weeks before his murder in 1968, Dr. ...
Read More >>Navigating Our Flat EarthPosted by: Wayne L. Firestone, President on 1/8/2008 11:42:00 AMAs published in The Jerusalem Post, January 13, 2008.
As Taglit-Birthright Israel participants met in Tel Aviv's Independence Hall this week, a group of soldiers waited for the students outside. The soldiers had spent five days with the students as part of the Taglit program. They just wanted to say goodbye before their new friends departed for their respect... Read More >>
Ignorance is not blissPosted by: Danielle Freni, Senior Communications Associate on 12/14/2007 3:17:00 PMI've never seen a swastika.
I know what they look like from television shows (most recently on "Grey's Anatomy"), WWII documentaries and my visits to Holocaust memorial museums. But aside from that, I've never actually seen a swastika drawn out of malice on a public building or a private home or even on a piece of paper.
Though I grew up in a home that wasn't Jewish, there was nev... Read More >>
Hillel, Federation Partnership Hits New High at UJC GAPosted by: Wayne L. Firestone, President on 11/20/2007 12:37:00 PMThe 2007 United Jewish Communities General Assembly in Nashville will be remembered as a watershed in Hillel’s relationship with the Federation movement. Never before have Jewish students, or Hillel, played such a significant role at this most prestigious of Jewish communal gatherings.
As the media have reported, the GA opened with Hillel students marching into the plenary to the sound o... Read More >>
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Great New Beginning 9/11/2007 3:53:00 PMWhy Be Jewish? 8/10/2007 2:53:00 PMFall Forward at Virginia Tech 7/31/2007 4:41:00 PMReflecting on One Year 7/24/2007 10:55:00 AMReport from the Jewish Future 7/17/2007 12:39:00 PMTaking a Sephardic Route 6/5/2007 3:08:00 PMIn the Whale Room for Hillel 5/29/2007 3:24:00 PMWhy Do We Do Social Justice? 5/8/2007 9:31:00 AMBack to "Normal" at Virginia Tech 4/24/2007 3:35:00 PMHeroism at Virginia Tech 4/17/2007 3:06:00 PMMatzoh Balls and Basketballs for Seder 4/12/2007 11:14:00 AMA Ray of Hope in New Orleans 3/27/2007 6:10:00 PMGrieving and Healing 3/20/2007 3:59:00 PMHillel in the Heart of Argentina 3/13/2007 2:12:00 PMHillel’s Standards: What Do They Mean? 3/6/2007 2:06:00 PMMeaningful Jewish Experience in a Cab? 2/28/2007 1:30:00 PMThe Chance of a Lifetime 2/20/2007 4:55:00 PMIsrael Education: A Time to Teach, A Time to Challenge 2/12/2007 5:13:00 PMHillel’s “Brand” 2/6/2007 5:13:00 PMSeeing Israel Anew for the 21st Time 1/30/2007 3:05:00 PMWhy We Should be Proud of the New FSU Arrangement 1/23/2007 5:13:00 PMInspired by Students 1/16/2007 4:11:00 PMTouching Lives, Building Identity 1/9/2007 2:36:00 PMProfessionals are Hillel's Asset 11/28/2006 12:56:00 PMA Microcosm of Diversity 12/5/2006 12:52:00 PMHillel: A Tzedek Movement 12/12/2006 12:51:00 PM