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I’ve really connected to Judaism through music. I play the guitar, drums, and trumpet and so music is something I really love. My first time at Hillel, everyone was singing Salaam. I thought it was a very nice song, but I didn’t know how to sing it or play it. Nowadays, I probably know more music and songs than my other Jewish friends.
My experience definitely changed the type of business I want to do and the type of people I want to work with and what kind of organization and company I want to work with. It's definitely given me a target of where I want to go when I get older.
I felt like ‘Oh my God there's so many Jewish people that are in the States and they live such a different life and they have so much to say and I don’t know anything about it and I love my people,’ you know? I feel like we are one.
“Because I was raised in an interfaith household, being Jewish was always a choice for me.”
On the day I moved into my dorm room at University of Connecticut, I walked into Hillel.
I just had to show up and everything would be done for me. It turned out that wasn’t the case.
