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Mindfulness Over Matter

Noah Etessami needed a nap. It was too early to head home for the day, though, so he called an audible. He went to the University of Southern California Hillel’s wellness lounge, hopped in the bed and closed his eyes.

Pushing boundaries

“It is of no surprise that three years later, I yearn for that same community that so distinctly defined my undergraduate experience.”

Better late than never

Brianna Patek has never forgotten the stories her parents told her about their former lives as Jews living in Ukraine.

Shalom Y’all

What’s that thing on the door?” asked Jackson, class of ’21, of his Duke University roommate and Blue Devils football teammate, Daniel Karlin. Jackson hails from Highland Park, Texas, an area outside of Dallas where fewer than 1 percent of residents are Jewish.

On my own

And today I use the skills I learned at Hillel as a communications associate at Capital Camps and as a volunteer adviser with BBYO.

A leg up

After a hectic first week of classes, I found something familiar: Shabbat services and dinner with Hillel.

Two Jews, Three Opinions

Is it permissible to torture terrorists according to halacha? Are the #MeToo whisper networks a form of lashon harah?

Unapologetically Jewish

Hillel gave me a space in which I could be unapologetically Jewish, even in a rural town where Jews were truly “strangers in a strange land.”

Customizing my Judaism

It was through my four years with Hillel at Temple, from their freshman orientation program to serving on the student board, that I developed the tools to imagine and create the Jewish life I want.