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Face to face

The David Project builds relationships between Jewish students and diverse student leaders across campus to build understanding of and support for Israel.

Two-Line Torah: Ki Teitzei – Making Promises

In this week’s Torah portion, Moses issues several different edicts governing behavior and action concerning relationships – between husband and wife, parent and child, sibling to sibling, owner to worker, neighbor to neighbor, and neighbor to stranger.

Meet Manashe Khaimov

Manashe was born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, a city along the Silk Road, where his ancestors had lived for over 2,000 years, which makes his Jewish identity simultaneously Bukharian, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-speaking.

Meet Brittany Lenhart

Brittany Lenhart’s love affair with building dynamic Jewish community began early in her life, at age 9, when she attended the URJ’s Goldman Union Camp Institute for the first time.

Meet Ilya Bratman

Ilya Bratman grew up in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to Pittsburgh, PA when he was 15. Bratman never thought that he would become a Hillel professional or even a devoted Jew.

Hack Haven

In a lab space in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering on the University of California, Irvine’s campus, a group of Jewish and non-Jewish students stand arrayed in a semi-circle watching as Kelly Lai attempts to zip up her jacket with a prototype device they’ve created.