Advocates for Inclusion
Students from Washington, D.C. area Hillels joined current and former Hillel professionals on Capitol Hill Tuesday for Jewish Disability Advocacy Day.
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Students from Washington, D.C. area Hillels joined current and former Hillel professionals on Capitol Hill Tuesday for Jewish Disability Advocacy Day.
Now, I instill in my students to do the same; they should follow through with their ideas for programs, turning them into reality.
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.
“It is of no surprise that three years later, I yearn for that same community that so distinctly defined my undergraduate experience.”
Brianna Patek has never forgotten the stories her parents told her about their former lives as Jews living in Ukraine.
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.
And today I use the skills I learned at Hillel as a communications associate at Capital Camps and as a volunteer adviser with BBYO.
After a hectic first week of classes, I found something familiar: Shabbat services and dinner with Hillel.
Is it permissible to torture terrorists according to halacha? Are the #MeToo whisper networks a form of lashon harah?
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.”