Acting on ideas
Now, I instill in my students to do the same; they should follow through with their ideas for programs, turning them into reality.
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Pushing boundaries
“It is of no surprise that three years later, I yearn for that same community that so distinctly defined my undergraduate experience.”
Mindfulness Over Matter
Noah Etessami needed a nap. It was too early to head home for the day, though, so he called an audible. He went to the University of Southern California Hillel’s wellness lounge, hopped in the bed and closed his eyes.
Better late than never
Brianna Patek has never forgotten the stories her parents told her about their former lives as Jews living in Ukraine.
On my own
And today I use the skills I learned at Hillel as a communications associate at Capital Camps and as a volunteer adviser with BBYO.
Shalom Y’all
What’s that thing on the door?” asked Jackson, class of ’21, of his Duke University roommate and Blue Devils football teammate, Daniel Karlin. Jackson hails from Highland Park, Texas, an area outside of Dallas where fewer than 1 percent of residents are Jewish.
A leg up
After a hectic first week of classes, I found something familiar: Shabbat services and dinner with Hillel.
Two Jews, Three Opinions
Is it permissible to torture terrorists according to halacha? Are the #MeToo whisper networks a form of lashon harah?
Unapologetically Jewish
Hillel gave me a space in which I could be unapologetically Jewish, even in a rural town where Jews were truly “strangers in a strange land.”
Customizing my Judaism
It was through my four years with Hillel at Temple, from their freshman orientation program to serving on the student board, that I developed the tools to imagine and create the Jewish life I want.
