What’s happening on campus? Hear from students, professionals, and Hillel community members whose lives have been impacted by Hillel and who impact the world with their voices and stories. Share your story with us!
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“Ariel Walovitch, Northeastern University Hillel’s director of Jewish student life, contacted me a few days ago because she’s been running a mile a day for eleven days to honor the victims of the Tree of Life shooting and she’d heard that I was from Pittsburgh.”
“I grew up a practicing Catholic, but as I got older, I began to question my beliefs.”
“Voting is a mitzvah. To help others fulfill that mitzvah, I became the first Mitzvote civic engagement intern at Franklin and Marshall Hillel.”
“With the outbreak of the coronavirus, Onward Israel adapted the six-week internship I was supposed to do in Tel Aviv to a virtual experience.”
“My name is Octavio, but people call me Tavo.”
“Being Jewish and Latino are central parts of who I am.”
“When I was moving into my apartment at Michigan State University, someone said to me, ‘Do you have to hang up your mezuzah? Do you need to tell the entire world your Jewish?’ I said, ‘Yes, of course.’”
“I was hundreds of miles away from campus, completing the semester online because of the coronavirus, when I received a flood of messages about an act of vandalism on Yom HaShoah.”
“Judaism is more than my religion — it’s my identity.”
“You feel empowered when you’re a part of something bigger than yourself.”
