An Israeli flag belonging to a Jewish student group was defaced with the word “terrorists” at the University of California, Riverside. The word was scrawled in pencil near the center of the flag, which was displayed on a hallway bulletin board outside...
The Millstone Institute for Jewish Leadership will host two talks for Jewish community volunteers, board leaders and staff by Rob Goldberg, Vice President of Campus Development for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.Goldberg will speak on Monday,...
By Wayne L. Firestone, JTA
• Published February 1, 2012
WASHINGTON—Just as college students were finishing their winter exams, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg selected a partnership of The Technion Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell University to build a campus on Roosevelt Island that will become...
Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 1, 2012
Jacqueline Ulin Levey believes college organizations such as Hillel have to be proactive when it comes to reaching out and engaging students. That's why the Jewish organization is now meeting students at places on campus where they hang out, including...
I was sitting with my parents this summer at a nice restaurant in St. Louis - "nice" meaning we had all traded our jeans and flip-flops for more formal attire and were enjoying a bottle of wine that had been ordered from a separate wine menu. As our...
While students are traveling back to campus from across the country, the staff at St. Louis Hillel has been finalizing programming and events for the Fall. Washington University's orientation week begins on Aug. 25 with move-in day. Over 1,000 freshmen...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 10, 2011
As he carefully braids challah in a reserved room on the Washington University campus, David Orfahli of Brooklyn College smiled when asked what he thought of St. Louis."The weather is nothing like New York," replied the 20-year-old psychology major noting...
ST. LOUIS - Amanda Boris is nervous about what she'll face when classes resume at the University of Wisconsin later this month. "There's an uncomfortable amount of anti-Semitism on my campus," said the incoming senior.Last year, her campus newspaper ran...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 18, 2010
Engagement efforts and reaching out to the next generation were the topics in focus last week as hundreds of professionals and students from around the world descended on Washington University for the annual Hillel Institute. The four-day centerpiece...
