My criteria for the perfect college were a small to mid-sized school, a school where there was ample support and numerous resources for pre-health students, a school with a sense of spirit and pride and a school with a strong Hillel. While many of the schools I looked at met several of these “requirements,” Emory…
In the basement of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, home of Columbia/Barnard Hillel, filled with students who had gathered after kiddush on Saturday afternoon, a sense of anticipation hung over the room. After many months of preparation, and a long journey beset with many pitfalls and setbacks, the first major event run by…
Joining a fraternity or sorority in college is a life-changing decision, one of the first “adulting” choices for a college student. For Jewish college students, there are a variety of fraternities and sororities founded on and committed to Jewish values such as loving thy neighbor, honoring and respecting others, being truthful and finding your piece…
Chabad on Campus provides a “home away from home” for Jews at campuses across America and around the globe. Chabad seeks to ensure that students graduate as stronger and more empowered Jews than when they entered. Since the 1960s, Chabad campus centers open their doors to every Jewish student regardless of background or observance level….
I started Harvard with a vague idea that I was going to be more involved in “Jewish things” on campus. What that meant, I had no idea. Birthright seemed like a good place to start, and so sometime in the first few weeks on campus I found the contact information for Hillel’s Israel coordinator, Lauren….
Sami Rahamim is a rising senior at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Ravil Ashirov is a junior at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Sami is against BDS, while Ravil is a supporter. We asked them to debate the merits and demerits of BDS. Sami got us started. SR: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is deeply complex. Yet,…
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