Two-Line Torah: B’ha’alotcha 5776: Restoring Relationships
Sometimes, in argument, we have a tendency to not recognize the pain we cause others until it is too late.
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Advice For Incoming First Years
Off to college this fall? We asked alumni from across the country to share their best tips for surviving the first 100 days on campus.
Seeing Ourselves in Others: The Importance of Interfaith Role Models in Jewish Engagement
Students must see themselves – even those parts of themselves that make them fell most insecure as Jews – in those who seek to engage them.
Two-Line Torah: Naso 5776–Cycling Back to Torah
What most strikes me is the process of my cycling back to Torah – how different the words feel in my mouth and how forgiving my relationship with Torah has been.
What has Jolene got to do with Shavuot?
The power of Shavuot can be to remind us, as Jews, of where we come from.
In the market for advice
Volunteers come to the Machane Yehuda marketplace to help the elderly carry their heavy bags to bus stops or to their homes. As “payment,” the senior shares a personal story or gives a piece of life advice.
Power Prayers
Some might picture spiritual life at Hillel to be a top-down world in which a rabbi leads, while students merely participate. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Two-Line Torah: Bamidbar 5776–Census
In Bamidbar, a census of the Jewish people is taken. It is a moment to recognize the Jewish community and the individuals that comprise it.
So you’ve graduated. Now what?
Making the adjustment from college to post-grad life can be rough, so we asked some recent grads to share their best bits of advice.
Meet Jenny Miller
Jenny Miller may not be Jewish, but she is no stranger to Hillel.
