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Yishai Goldflam is the vice president of development and partnerships of Hillel Israel Jews are remarkably good at remembering events that happened thousands of years ago. Every year on Passover, we sit around a table and tell the story of the Exodus as though we ourselves had left Egypt. We fast and read Eicha on […]
Michael Pollak is the Assistant Director at Hillel at the University of Rochester. One of the greatest privileges of working in Jewish campus life is watching students have new experiences, seeing the moments that shape how they understand themselves and the world around them. This has been particularly true during Hillel’s Birthright Israel trips, which […]
Each year, thousands of Jewish college students travel to Israel with Birthright Israel and their campus Hillels.
My Hillel story is a little unusual, because until my final year of undergrad, I had never even heard about Hillel.
Thousands of Jewish students across North America came together this week to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day.
This year’s Hillel International Israel Summit was one of the most impactful conferences I have attended.
This past weekend, more than 150 Jewish student leaders gathered at the University of Pennsylvania for the eighth annual Hillel International Israel Summit.
As a first-year IACT (Inspired, Active, Committed, Transformed) at Penn State Hillel, one thing I love about my job is that there’s no “typical day.”
With the escalating conflict, large Purim gatherings were replaced with neighborhood Megillah readings.
Long before I ever applied, I knew that going to Israel through Birthright Israel was something I wanted for myself.
