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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.”
Renowned Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt spoke to more than 170 Hillel professionals on Wednesday about her latest book, “Antisemitism: Here and Now.”
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.
Because of Hillel, I discovered my passion for Jewish peoplehood and grew in a way that helped me pursue that passion.
In recognition of her leadership in Jewish education over the past 10 years, the Covenant Foundation named Maiya Chard-Yaron a 2018 Pomegranate Prize recipient.
In college classes, I learned. At Hillel, I grew.
