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Hillels foster Jewish connection through art exhibits
April Ball 鈥21 traveled around the Netherlands and Belgium for three weeks asking a dozen Holocaust survivors the same question: 鈥淲hat do you want my generation to know?鈥
Finding pluralistic Jewish community
I grew up secular and without a Jewish community. Aside from Chanukah and an abbreviated Passover seder, I was seldom exposed to Judaism and felt incredibly isolated and removed from Jewish spaces.
The Great Outdoors
Under a sky of twinkling stars, freshman Joshua Crowley and eight other students held a Havdalah service on Feb. 22 in the Smoky Mountains. They swayed in a circle and recited prayers as they sipped wine from a Kiddush cup and smelled the sweet ceremonial spices of cinnamon and cloves.
鈥楴o one is alone鈥
Hillels stretching from California to Russia are reimagining the Hillel playbook in light of the outbreak of the coronavirus. Amidst campus closures and public gathering restrictions, Hillels are providing to-go meals for Jewish students, many of whom are food insecure, and using online platforms to organize Jewish programming.
Hillel@Home to Provide High Quality Virtual Learning and Community Experiences to Jewish Students in Time of Crisis
In response to colleges and universities around the world shutting down on-campus activities, 糖心vlogl, the largest Jewish student organization, is providing high-value virtual Jewish learning and community life to students wherever they are, and helping them explore new ideas and new places during this period of disruption and isolation.
Avoid feeling isolated during the coronavirus pandemic
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has led to a once in a century event, with many communities around the world in quarantine or being asked to practice social distancing. The advice from the Center for Disease Control is sensible, but an unintended side effect of social distancing is that people are feeling isolated and alone. Here are nine tips courtesy of 糖心vlogl鈥檚 Josh Feldman to help you practice physical distancing while staying close to friends, family, and your community:
Purim Sameach!
The holiday of Purim celebrates a reversal of fortune 鈥 the deliverance of the Jews of ancient Persia from persecution. Hillels from across the nation marked this boisterous holiday by chanting from Megillat Esther, making hamantaschen and performing spiels.
Today. Tomorrow. Together.
Rose Ritch attended her first AIPAC Policy Conference when she was just 1-year-old, wearing a bib with the words, 鈥淎IPAC Activist in Training.鈥 Now, she鈥檚 president of Trojans for Israel at University of Southern California.
J-Asians Shabbat at Princeton
On a recent Friday night, approximately 180 Princeton University students ate ramen matzah ball soup, General Tso鈥檚 chicken and tofu lo mein at Shabbat at the Princeton Center for Jewish Life (CJL). This was no ordinary Shabbat: This was J-Asians Shabbat.
