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A new program launched this week by Hillel International, the world’s largest Jewish campus organization, will help foster growth in Jewish life on 10 college campuses participating in its pilot year.
Continuing its drive to cultivate the next generation of Jewish leaders, Hillel International is expanding its Springboard Fellowship with a second cohort of 25 new participants for the next year of the program.
More than 20 students and staffers from DC-area Hillels and Hillel International headed to Capitol Hill Feb 2. on the seventh annual Jewish Disability Advocacy Day (JDAD) to hear from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and to advocate for protecting Medicaid and preserving the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Hillel in Peoria, Illinois is the third campus Hillel to derive its energy from solar panels, following University of Florida Hillel and University of Arizona Hillel.
It is our obligation to welcome the stranger by singing the song of freedom just as Moses did.
If we want to be heard by others, we must take into account their emotional state.
It is important to give what we do meaning, rather than trying to fulfill an artificial and fleeting sense of self-worth.
As we mark February as Jewish Disability Inclusion and Awareness Month, seven undergraduates across the country are serving as the first cohort of Hillel International’s Ruderman Inclusion Ambassadors. Based out of their campus Hillels, each ambassador is creating and implementing programs committed to building campus awareness and developing initiatives to encourage inclusion of students with disabilities in campus Jewish life.
Campus Hillels across the country are mobilizing students and working with university administrators to uphold Jewish values in protecting all students subject to the Executive Order on refugees.
Many actions that the Torah asks us to perform are designed to cultivate within us certain feelings and thoughts toward God and others.
