Samantha Brody, Liora Knizhnik, Author at Hillel International

Why I Won’t Let the Lows Define My College Experience:
Reflections from Hillel International Student Cabinet Co-Chair

May 15, 2024

I’m not going to lie – this is not the way I imagined graduating college. I always pictured graduation season as being freeing and exciting, a celebratory close to an incredible four years. But across the country, the last few weeks have brought protests and unrest that have made us anxious and uncertain once again. […]

Hillel Community

Depolarization Should Be a Focus on Campus and Elsewhere

April 18, 2024

When was the last time you made the choice to sit down and listen to people you disagree with? Debate and disagreement are as much a part of Jewish tradition as challah on Shabbat. Going back to Talmudic times, Jews have sat down together for deep discussions that encouraged lively and sometimes heated debate. Their […]

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Jewish Identity

Finding New Meaning in “Am Yisrael” After Oct. 7

April 5, 2024

Am Yisrael Chai – a song I sang, danced, and clapped along to at my Jewish preschool but never took the time to consider the deeper meaning of. Yet here I am, six months after October 7, no longer taking for granted the power of those words. The nation of Israel lives. In a period […]

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Israel

Why traveling to Israel is more important for young adults now than ever

March 13, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in eJewishPhilanthropy on March 12, 2024. “A police car is the first thing I see when I wake up and look out my window each morning,” a member of a Jewish fraternity on campus at the University of Florida recently shared with me. It has stood watch there […]

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Israel

Campus Insider: Pro-Israel Students are Showing Up to Learn and Lead

March 4, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in The Times of Israel on March 1, 2024. There’s a perpetual fear in the Jewish community that we’re losing our young. That our youth are no longer connected to the values we seek to instill in them, including a love for Israel. This fear is expressed in […]

Antisemitism

Hillel Community

How to Pick a College During a Surge of Antisemitism on Campus

February 29, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Newsweek on February 29, 2024 In just a few weeks, millions of high school seniors and their families will be making choices about where to attend college or university—a decision that will shape their lives for the next four years, and impact them for decades to come. […]

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Planting Seeds for Brighter Days Ahead: A Note from Adam Lehman

January 31, 2024

Dear Friends, With winter break behind us and the spring semester underway on campus, I am feeling renewed by the many opportunities that await us in 2024: the launch of our Hillel International Scholarships, which will award $150,000 to 20 exceptional students; recruitment for Cohort Tet (nine) of our Springboard Fellowship , which we anticipate […]

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Building Resilience from a Strong Foundation: A Note from Adam Lehman

January 2, 2024

Dear Friends, As we reflect on the past year and in particular, the twelve weeks since October 7, there is certainly a lot to make us feel outraged, scared, isolated, and heartbroken. And yet with everything painful and disheartening that we’ve learned from this period, at Hillel we’ve also learned much that we’ll build on […]

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