A partnership at my Hillel can help fight for racial justice.
Following the Black Lives Matter protests this summer, student leadership at our Hillel had a discussion to figure out how we could move forward and support the movement.
Humans of Hillel
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Institutional change has to be widespread.
Last year, we had a bunch of hate crimes on campus that targeted international students, black students, and Jewish students. There were some swastikas and Jewish professors received nasty emails. What resulted from that was a list of needs that we issued from the Jewish community to the administration.
Hillel has continued to help me practice my Judaism how I want to.
Coming from a tight-knit Modern Orthodox community, I was worried about maintaining my customs when I first got to college.
I have never questioned or doubted my Shabbat observance.
There’s this perception, largely accurate, that college kids are not particularly observant. I was really concerned about finding a synagogue that could be a home for me and some type of observant community at school. I was worried I was going to be left out or stuck on my own on Shabbos.
Yoga is a lot of self-reflection, and I feel the same way about being Jewish.
“I got involved in Hillel during my freshman year, and through Hillel I signed up for a Pesach-themed Zoom event called “Let My People Flow,” which was a yoga class led by Evan Joblin.”
The Jewish people and lovers of theater have made it clear that they will confront any obstacle that comes their way.
In Judaism and theater, I feel a constant need to improve; to know that each event or moment in time can be better than the one that came before it.
There is a direct connection between American politics and Judaism.
Judaism at its core is about social justice, Tikkun Olam, and helping each other. Helping your fellow Jews, but also helping your fellow humans. That’s what an American republic is about too: helping each other and contributing to society. Those ideals are both very Jewish and very American.
Not only do we need to keep their memories alive, we need to keep their stories alive.
“Ariel Walovitch, Northeastern University Hillel’s director of Jewish student life, contacted me a few days ago because she’s been running a mile a day for eleven days to honor the victims of the Tree of Life shooting and she’d heard that I was from Pittsburgh.”
When I was 16, my dad died. My memories of him inspired me to reexplore religion in college.
“I grew up a practicing Catholic, but as I got older, I began to question my beliefs.”
By voting, we are upholding the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam, or repairing the world.
“Voting is a mitzvah. To help others fulfill that mitzvah, I became the first Mitzvote civic engagement intern at Franklin and Marshall Hillel.”
