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For many of the more than 100,000 Jewish students entering college each year, moving to campus represents your first time living away from home — away from your parents, siblings and friends, from your synagogue and youth group, even your own bed. In short,everything familiar.

College can never perfectly replicate home, and that’s a good thing. One of the benefits of the college experience is that you can begin to make decisions for yourself, about what classes to take, how to dress, and evenhow to express your Judaism.

For some, like Sarah, a freshman at Penn State University who shares herstory in this issue, that transition can be difficult. But she is not alone, andneither are you. Hillel is here to help, even before you arrive on campus.

In this issue of Hillel College Guidemagazine, you’ll find advice and resources to help you find the college experience that’s right for you — from up-to-date listings of the most popular schools for Jewish students, to articles on study abroad programs, mindfulness and health,entertainment and tech.

Once you arrive on campus, you’ll find Hillel a welcoming, inclusive placeto connect with your classmates, your Judaism, Israel and the world. LikeSarah and Noah, another student who shares his story in this issue, you’relikely to make some of your best friends at a Hillel event — whether oncampus or off. And nothing says family like having Jewish penicillin —chicken noodle soup — delivered to your dorm room when you’re sick.

We’re about far more than Shabbat dinners and services at Hillel (althoughwe’ve got you covered for those). Interested in visiting Israel or volunteeringduring spring break? Keep reading to find out how Hillel can make it happen. Have an idea of your own for Jewish study? For social justice? Interfaith dialogue? Hillel encourages your participation and innovation.As you’ll read inside, Hillel has inspired and trained generations of newleaders. Now it’s your turn.

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˝ Judaism values charitable giving, community involvement and education, so it is little wonder then that there are anumber of scholarships available for Jewish youth leaders.The National Jewish Committee on

Scouting offers three scholarships to Boy Scouts who attain the rank of Eagle,earn the Ner Tamid or Etz Chaim religious emblem and have a demonstrated involvement with their synagogue.The Chester M. Vernon Memorial

Eagle Scout Scholarship Program awardwinner receives a $1,000 scholarship peryear for four years; the Rick Arkans EagleScout Scholarship Program recipient receives a one-time $1,000 scholarship;and the Frank L. Weil Memorial EagleScout Scholarship Program offers a $1,000scholarship and two $500 scholarships.Vernon and Arkans applicants must submita copy of the Free Application for FederalStudent Assistance (FAFSA) to prove need.Scholarship application forms are availableonline at jewishscouting.org.Bruce Chudacoff, national chairman of

the NJCS, himself a Distinguished EagleScout, said the typical award recipient hasshown a high level of involvement in histroop, may have worked at Boy Scouts ofAmerica summer camps and may have

executed leadership in the Order of theArrow. Recipients tend to be well-roundedindividuals with good grades and have involvement in extracurricular activitiesboth with their school and synagogue.Chudacoff is building on a vision

for creating a “continuum of Jewish involvement” that extends from Jewishscouting to involvement in Jewish activitieson college campuses, such as in Hillel orwith Jewish fraternities and sororities,which will provide the training for those individuals to be leaders of the Jewishcommunity in adulthood.The Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation

(SAMF), founded by alumni brothers of the historically Jewish fraternity, offersendowed scholarships for high school seniors involved with United SynagogueYouth and the North American Federationof Temple Youth, the youth groups of theConservative and Reform movements, respectively.As part of the foundation’s mission to

fund scholarships and promote educationalexcellence, SAM alumni endowed theHanno P. Mott USY Scholarship and theJames Alexander NFTY Scholarship thatrecognize high school seniors who haveshown academic excellence, leadership andJewish involvement. Both scholarships

have recently been increased from $500 to$1,100. Applications are posted online atsam-fdn.org and are due by February 2016.According to Maria Mandel, director of

scholarships and donor relations forSAMF, another competitive scholarship isthe William P. Schwartz Scholarships forDaughters, which, as the name implies, is

available to daughters of SAM alumni.This year, $7,000 was disbursed to four recipients, all of whom are attending four-year schools. Applicants need to provide a high school transcript along with a copyof their FAFSA.“They’re great scholarships, and we’re so

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˝ The chance to twirl through anauthentic plate of spaghetti in Rome … to soak in the culture and music of Seville… to walk through a millennium of livinghistory in London … and, of course, totake courses while there. One of thebiggest opportunities for college studentsis the chance to study abroad. For manystudents, it was one thing they knew theyalways wanted to do in school.“I am always excited by the idea of

having to adapt to a new environment and experiencing new things, so I’ve always known I wanted to go abroad atsome point in my college career,” saidMorgan Ingber, a junior at PennsylvaniaState University and vice president of religious life at Penn State Hillel.Ingber is spending the fall semester

of her junior year in Seville, Spain, which, though it is smaller than othercities such as Barcelona or Madrid, still

gives the feel of the Spanish culture and architecture she was looking for. Having been there for eight weeks,

Ingber has learned so much already, both about Seville and about herself.“I’ve learned that I am capable of

adapting well to an environment that is completely different from anythingI’ve ever been exposed to before,” said Ingber, a management and psychologymajor from Basking Ridge, N.J. “Being exposed to a completely new culture with new surroundings, new people, new food and sometimes even a new language is something that will changeyour life.”Jillian Arenson spent a semester abroad

in London during her first year at Arcadia(Pa.) University — and then went againher junior year.When she left for her classes at the

University of Westminster the first time as

a freshman, she had never been abroad. “I was always like, ‘That’s not for me,

I’m never going to leave the country.’ I didn’t think I wanted to be that far awayfrom my family,” said Arenson, a seniorstudying biology and pre-PT. But the application for the special

program to spend a semester of her firstyear in England was too good to pass up,especially because it was the city she hasalways wanted to visit.In the time between her return to the

U.S. and departing once more for London,she learned to be more “independent,” saidthe Manalapan, N.J., native and presidentof Arcadia’s Hillel. “Being in a different country, you have

to rely on yourself for many things. Youlearn more about yourself; you learn howyou can act in a situation when you are byyourself, and [you] grow and learn.” —MARISSA STERn

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˝ Klezmer clarinetist and ethnomusicologist Joel Rubin wasshowing off what he thought was his best recorded performance of the Eastern European Jewish musical style when his listenergave him a nod of approval. “Oh, that was nice,” she said. “Itsounds just like ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’”Oy!Klezmer is so much deeper — and darker — than its “happy-

go-lucky wedding music” stereotype, says Rubin, who directs the University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble, which he established a decade ago.If you’re intrigued to hear the music — which originated with

itinerant professional wedding musicians — played live or want toput your arm to the fiddle or lips to the clarinet, there are studentklezmer bands at many American universities. A few, such as theUVA Klezmer Ensemble, offer class credit. Most, such as the YaleKlezmer Band and the Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble(known as CUKE and formed by Rubin), are student-led outfits.Generally, the groups are a mix of undergraduate and graduate

students, faculty and community members. Numbers ebb andflow as students graduate and migrate elsewhere, as itinerant klezmorim were wont to do. At UVA, the ensemble this year includes a viola, two violins, trombone and keyboards, plusRubin, an associate professor and director of music performanceat the university.The group rehearses four times a week and performs a full-length

concert each semester. Guest musicians lead workshops. And thegroup is often invited to perform off campus. What’s a weddingwithout a klezmer band, right?

Klezmer was in decline until the ’70s and ’80s, when some musicians sought to bring back Old Country folkways before they were lost to acculturation. Rubin was introduced to klezmerby some of those revivalists 35 years ago and was hooked. “Most people didn’t know what klezmer was back then,” he says. “Today, it’s not exactly a mass market, but it occupies a comfortable niche.”

At Carnegie Mellon University, the eight-member CarnegieShpil Company holds its rehearsals at the Hillel Jewish UniversityCenter of Pittsburgh. The group’s founder, alto saxophonist DavidZaidins, formed his first klezmer band to play at his bar mitzvah.Now 25, he kept swinging with the Carnegie Shpil Company evenafter graduation. “I enjoy the process of listening to the old records,” he said,

“and discovering parts of my Jewish history that are lost in today’s culture.” — DAvID HOLzEL

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was born Jewish, raised Jewish, went to a Jewish summercamp and had a bat mitzvah. Then, like other young Jewish people you may know, I sort of fell off the Jewish geography map — but not for the reasons you might suspect. Jewish youth groups weren’t my scene, and most of my friends

were people who did not identify with the Jewish faith or culture.In high school, I actually felt more in tune with my Hispanic sidethan my Jewish one. I was Jew-ish, but I never felt particularly intune with my Judaism.Yes, you read that correctly. I am Hispanic. I probably don’t

look like what you were picturing. You’re not the only one to be surprised. I fielded a lot of questions growing up, questionslike: “You mean, you’re half Jewish?” Nope, full Jewish, I toldthem. Both sides. “So you’re Sephardic, then?” Again, nope. Full Ashkenazi.People didn’t know where to place me, and neither did I.

I’m a double minority: a hispana among Jews, a judía to the Hispanic/Latino population. For a long time, I honestly felt likean outsider among both groups. So I decided — wrongly — thatthese parts of me had to be kept separate, shielding part of myidentity when coming into contact with either Hispanics or Jewish people. I became a chameleon. I was never ashamed of who I was. But

it was just easier to assume one identity or the other. I felt like Iwas hiding from the world, hiding from myself. I wasn’t embracingevery part of myself. I was only showing one side of myself forfear of making other people uncomfortable. And the result was so unsatisfying. Imagine if only half of an orchestra played a symphony while the other half of the musicians sat silently onstage. As a listener, you might still enjoy the experience to an extent, but you’d be missing so much music. Your experiencewould feel incomplete at best. That incomplete feeling, of stifling my own sound, didn’t

suddenly disappear when I went to college. But in my freshmanyear, I threw myself headfirst into Jewish life, even serving on the student board at Hillel. Slowly but surely, I felt more Jewish,and learned more about my Hispanic side as well. The more I

learned, the more comfortable I felt with myself — my whole self. I started engaging people, and the more people I talked to,the more confident I became.I had finally embraced my identity. I’m still a double minority,

but I don’t feel the need to hide one side of myself. I am all of me,from my Argentine accent in Spanish to my curly hair. In thisglobalized society, I came to realize there are fewer people whoidentify as “just Jewish.” People fall into multiple categories. I’mnot alone. I know this because I continue to meet people like meor who feel as I once did. Finding your identity is hard. Accepting it can be even harder.

But I’ve learned that you don’t need to hide parts of yourself toreassure other people. Many people will actually be interested andexcited to find out how multifaceted you are. Those who minddon’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

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can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t participatingin some type of sport — basketball, track, discus. Growing up in Virginia, I can remember one other constant

in my life: I was always active in my local Jewish community, attending after-school programs at my local Jewish CommunityCenter and working as a counselor and assistant art teacher atJCC summer camps. I was also involved in the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and served in many leadership positions including as president, or n’siah. Sports and Judaism kept mepretty busy, but blocking out time and sticking to a schedule really helped to lessen my stress and made juggling all of thesecommitments possible. I owe the Richmond Jewish community for introducing me to

the world of sports. My love for basketball started at the JCC,where I was the tallest girl on the junior WNBA team. It was a lotof fun and a great way to hang out with my friends after Hebrewschool on Sundays. Later, in middle school, I continued playingbasketball because I loved the sport and loved the feeling of winning and working hard on a team devoted to a common goal.When it came time for college, I assumed my glory days of

sports were over. George Mason is a Division I school, and thestandards are as high as you’d expect. So when I started out as a freshman, I thought I would stick to

playing a club sport, until one of my Jewish friends convinced meto walk onto the rowing team with her. I had never rowed before,and I had a lot to learn, even as a lifelong athlete. But I fell in lovewith the sport from the start, even though it meant getting up at 5 a.m. every day (no easy feat for a college student).As I dipped my oars into the sport of rowing, I was simultaneously

making my way into the Jewish community on campus. My freshman year, I helped to cook Shabbat dinners every Friday and was appointed Shabbat chair. My sophomore year, I helpedout with Shabbat dinners and was involved in several Jewish eventson campus. Along the way, I made connections and found some

of my best friends atschool. One of theseconnections helped meto become a lifeguardat Camp Perlman, aJewish sleep-awaycamp, where last summer I served aswaterfront director.As fun as camp was,

traveling to Israel onGeorge Mason University Hillel’s Taglit Birthright trip was thehighlight of my summer, a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The tripgave me the opportunity to connect with people on my campus Inever really knew (and didn’t know were Jewish) and with Israelisof all kinds. My fondest memory is of playing with a classroom ofEthiopian refugee children who crawled all over us like we werehuman jungle gyms. When I came back to Virginia, I wanted to share my love of

Israel, and so I became internal communications chair for the Israeli Student Association on campus. I also started working at a local Hebrew school with third-grade students. All of these Jewish experiences have helped to shape my identity,

instilling in me the leadership qualities that helped me to becomeelected captain of George Mason’s rowing team. I learned thevalue of working hard and the benefits that come with putting inthat hard work. At the same time, the discipline that rowing hasinstilled in me has also helped me to become a better leader andteacher in the Jewish community. Rowing has taught me thateverything takes time, that life is a process.As long as you trust that process and continuously work toward

your end goal, you will succeed.

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am, among other things, a rapper, an actor/director, a screenwriter and a photographer/blogger. I grew up in Las Vegas and created my own degree at Brown University —Evolutionary Anthropology.At Brown, I created and performed a one-woman rap musical

about aliens, time travel and DNA. I also wrote my first screenplay,a romantic comedy called “Coffee & Tuna” about a Jewish law student who wears a yarmulke to cover his early bald spot. Thestory won Brown’s screenplay contest and was made into a movie!Since then, I’ve taken a screenwriting class and have submittedscreenplays to the contest every semester. This year, I directed an immersive play, where instead of sitting

and watching, the audience walks around inside the world of the play. It was group devised — the cast and production teamcreated the story as part of the rehearsal process. Creating something with others brings people together.I love expressing myself through rhyme. Instead of speaking at

my high school graduation, I rapped. I’ve performed in venuesranging from Hillel’s Hanukkah Bash to a Southwest airplane, and now, to open mics in New York City. I rap under the nameMalka Red, and I’m hoping to incorporate Jewish melodic formsinto my songs. I’m also creator of “Jews of Brown,” a popular Facebook

page that celebrates the identities of Jewish students at Brown University through photographs and bits of conversation.After going on Birthright, I applied to the Engagement

Internship program. I was tasked with creating a project thatwould engage Jewish students in Jewish life on campus. Beforecreating the project, I was interested in the different, though oftensimilar, ways that my friends and family define their Judaism. Theproject, inspired by “Humans of New York,” would explore Jewishidentity among my peers.I had no formal skills in photography, so I taught myself how

to take portraits of people — how to frame them, how to makepeople laugh, how to edit. Since the fall of 2013, new photojournalists joined the team,

and together we have interviewed more than 200 Jewish studentsat Brown — individuals from all class years, men and women,with a range of unique identities and stories.

Hillel supported me in organizing a Jews of Brown gallery. Students featured in the photos and their friends filled Hillel’s social hall to see the photographs. It has been so gratifying and moving to see the page enriching

the lives of those involved — the subjects in the pictures, theviewers of the posts on social media and the photojournalist team.Because the Engagement Internship was an overwhelmingly

positive experience for me, I stayed on another year in an adviserposition, helping other students develop their own projects. I am also working with Hillel International to create Jews of theUniversity, which will use the “Jews of Brown” model to depict Jewish students across campuses. As an artist, I choose to express my Jewish identity in a myriad

of ways. Brown/RISD Hillel’s Engagement Internship and “Jews of Brown” have allowed me — and all of the students featured on the page — to reflect upon and strengthen the many ways weexpress our Jewish identities.

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y favorite Hebrew word is kehilah, which meanscommunity. Growing up in Allentown, Pa., I had always been involved in the Jewish community there. I met my best friends in Pre-K at the Jewish Community Center, and together we continued on through Hebrew school, high school and BBYO, a pluralistic Jewish youth group that works to provide Jewishteens with more meaningful experiences. I held leadership positions in my local BBYO chapter, worked

as a camp counselor at the local JCC camp, assisted with teachingand held administrative positions in my Hebrew school. My parentsserved as both lay leaders and professionals in our community. Iwatched and learned as my mother served as sisterhood president,temple president, JCC camp director and JCC interim executivedirector, while my father served on the boards and many committees of our JCC, temple and men’s club.The Jewish community in Allentown was my home. Leaving that

home for college was terrifying. New students at every universityare told that they are about to embark on a journey through thebest four years of their life. But no one tells them how difficultand scary the beginning of that journey can be. I experienced that difficult transition during my first few weeks

on Penn State’s enormous campus. I got lost on my first day andwas overwhelmed by the sheer number of people — about 50,000different faces, including 40,000 undergraduates.I knew I wanted to get involved with Hillel no matter where I

went to school, because I knew the Jewish community would bemy new home. However, I was so overwhelmed when I got to

Penn State that my roommate had to drag me to my first PennState Hillel event during Welcome Week.Immediately, I was welcomed by both staff and students.

I remember that we launched into an intense game of Jewish geography and found how many people we knew in common. I met tons of new Jewish freshman students and, over time, foundmy best friends. I began attending Shabbat dinner every week andfelt each time like I was sitting down with family. The Hillel staffespecially made every effort to get to know me and help methrough my transition. My transition continues, and it is still difficult at times. When

I wake up in the morning with a stuffy nose, I miss my mom.After a long week of studying, I miss sleeping in my bed at homeand cuddling with my dog, a poodle-mix named Lucky.But Penn State Hillel is always there when those feelings creep

up on me. I am grateful that I am able to stop in the PasquerillaSpiritual Center whenever I want and see my family away fromhome. When I wake up sick, Hillel’s soup delivery program comesto the rescue. By going online to pennstatehillel.org, I can orderhomemade chicken noodle soup cooked by students and have it delivered to my room by those same students. Hillel truly is akehilah at Penn State.Dorothy was right when she said that there is no place like

home, but Penn State Hillel has made University Park sure feellike a second home to me.

Sarah Holtz is a freshman at Pennsylvania State University.

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elcome the stranger, for you were oncestrangers in the land of Egypt.” This well-known Jewish teachingepitomized my experience with Hillel. Why did I feel initially likea stranger? It was not my Jewish status; I was raised with a strongConservative Jewish upbringing. Maybe in some sense, though, it was, since I came from Lincoln, Neb., where there is not a large Jewish presence. I was afraid of the culture shock and transition. Between my becoming a bar mitzvah in 2000, up until my

enrollment in graduate school at Northwestern University in2009, fitting in was a significant challenge for me. I did not holdcommon ground with my Hebrew school classmates and likewisedid not feel a connection with the older members of Tifereth Israel Synagogue in Lincoln. Like many other young people, I was suffering from bar mitzvah burnout. But I also have Aspergersyndrome and the social aloofness sometimes associated with it,another barrier to connecting with my fellow Jews. I began to rediscover the joy of Jewish services and a Jewish

community during my undergraduate years, but the barriers tumbled once I became a graduate student.The Hillel building at Northwestern was one of the first places

that I visited on campus after starting graduate school there in2009. The first activity I participated in there was the High Holidayservices, and although it felt different being away from home andmy family, the company of other new students and potential newfriends made me feel at home. My experiences made me realize Icould etch my name on the community and fit in.During my first two years at Northwestern, most of my Hillel

events were Shabbat services. I did attend other events such asShireiNU (NU Hillel’s a cappella group), Challah For Hunger and NUJOT (the graduate student group). Although each of these fell under the Hillel umbrella, the social circles were partially disjointed. Yet, I fit in to each one in its own right in myown fashion and maybe helped others to fit in elsewhere. At eachevent I attended, I attempted to make a new social connection. On the encouragement of NU Hillel, I went on a Birthright

trip in the summer of 2011. After I returned, NU Hillel evolvedfrom a semiregular part of my social life to nearly the epicenter.Several of my best friends (including both undergraduate and

graduate students at the time) I met at NU Hillel in 2011, and my engagement in Hillel events helped me to break out of my Aspieshell. I could feel a sense of community that didn’t discriminateagainst others because of their background or human conditions.The epitome of fitting in for me was Shabbat evenings. The

spirited singing during services extended to my musical calling ofpages, which other “Conservices” members told me was somethingthat they looked forward to each week. After services, dinner wasa great chance to hang out with friends and acquaintances who Iwould see only at Hillel. In addition to great food, the unexpectedconversations, spontaneous game nights and pure relaxationmade me feel like part of the community. Furthermore, it was achance to unburden myself and let go of the week. NU Hillel was truly a place where I was able to fit in, despite

being a graduate student with Asperger syndrome. The people Imet there didn’t discriminate against my background, and I feltvery much at home. As a graduate student, it is certainly possibleto fit in to circles outside of your lab and department, and evenfor graduate students, Hillel has a lot to offer.

Noah Weiss received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in thesummer of 2015.

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ike many children growing up, I was extremely impatient. And I found myself especially losing patience with mymother when she continued to talk to people after services atTemple B’nai Israel in Oklahoma City. Even when she said it wastime for us to go, she somehow found yet another person. Whilethis was frustrating back then, it wasn’t until I got to high schooland college that I was truly able to articulate why my mother enjoyed talking so much with people at our temple: In the Jewishcommunity, it’s all about relationships. While I always participated in Sunday school and the preparation

for my bar mitzvah came almost naturally to me, I didn’t start tofeel a true sense of commitment to the Jewish community untilmy incredible three summers at the Greene Family Camp inBruceville, Texas and four great years of the North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY), the Reform Jewish youthmovement. Through experimenting with services, learning aboutand fighting for social justice and enjoying the campfires at theend of the day, it was all about relationships. And, in serving asthe North American president of NFTY, I was able to connectwith thousands of Reform Jewish teens throughout the country. I decided to attend the University of Kansas because I knew

that KU Hillel would provide me with the welcoming Jewish community that I needed to thrive. Before I stepped on campus inAugust, I already had students at KU Hillel inviting me to some of

the first events of the year. Within the first month, I had connectedwith all of the staff members and other Jewish freshmen. Thosefirst few interactions I had with people at KU Hillel inspired meto take on that role myself: I slowly began making sure that otherJewish freshmen knew about Hillel events and even offered themrides. Eventually, during my sophomore and junior years, I served

as a freshmen engagement intern and coordinator for KU Hillel.And now as a senior at KU, I’m excited to continue engaging Jewish students on campus through new projects and events. In all of these moments with Hillel, it’s all about relationships. With all of these experiences, it only makes sense that I found

myself thinking more about relationships this past August, when I moderated a panel discussion with three insightful civil rightsleaders in front of more than 200 Hillel student leaders at the Hillel Institute in St. Louis. We heard from Rabbi Saul Berman,who was active in the civil rights movement and participated in the 1965 march in Selma, Ala. Yavilah McCoy inspired me to think more clearly about my own experiences as a half-black, half-white member of the Jewish community. AndRabbi Susan Talve’s community organizing work in Ferguson,Mo., gave me hope for the future. I felt more drawn to the stories,the true human interactions, of the panelists than just the ideas in the conversation. Hearing impactful stories of social justice and civil rights, I

knew that it would take more than just me to do this important,necessary and holy work. In those moments of grief and pain tothose moments of joy and celebration, in the Jewish community,it’s all about relationships.

Evan Traylor is a senior at the University of Kansas.

LA HELPING HAND It’s all about relationships

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The Birthright Israel trip, an all-expenses-paid 10-day journey to Israel offered twice a year to Jewish18- to 26-year-olds, is one of the most

powerful engagement tools on campus that connects a young person to the Jewish state. Hillels around the country offer the travel

experience to students but understand the trip is just the beginning. The organization providestools for continued engagement after the desertsand has been dusted off backpacks and sandalsand a student finds herself back on campus wanting to process the intense experience.

Birthright is immersive and high impact, explained Sara Teichman, director of BirthrightIsrael at Hillel International, “so when they comehome it’s our job to figure out what did they connect to, why did they connect and how to connect with that person.”Teichman cited programs such as Onward

Israel, a post-Birthright initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel, which connectsBirthright alumni to longer immersive internshipexperiences in Israel, as very popular, but another path for students staying on campus is the IACT program.

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Standing for Inspired, Active, Commit-ted, Transformed, IACT was developed inconjunction with Combined Jewish Phi-lanthropies of Greater Boston.Ally Turkheimer, IACT Birthright

Israel engagement coordinator at the University of Maryland, College Park, said she plans Birthright reunions andhappy hours to ensure “a chance for thestudents to reconnect at the beginning of the school year.” There is also the highly successful

Shabbat Across Maryland each November,with more than 1,500 students participatingin Shabbat dinners in homes, fraternitiesand sororities, a popular event for post-Birthright students. Turkheimer plansabout a dozen other events throughout the school year and helps students find internships or study-abroad opportunities

in Israel if that’s what they’re after; when a student pitches an idea for their ownJewish program, she added, “we’re here to help them.”But one-on-one interaction is most

powerful, she pointed out.Turkheimer creates a chart for each

Israel trip, including the names, ages andinterests of each student. She’ll get toknow a student over coffee before the tripand, she elaborated, “on the trip, I tracktheir experience, such as, did they reallyenjoy going to this or that? What programwould be really great to get them involvedin when we get back on campus? It’s themost seamless process ever.”That personal connection is crucial,

according to Abby Ross, IACT coordinatorat Ohio State University. With about 150students from her campus who attended

Birthright in the past year, she makes it apriority to meet with each one for coffeewhen they return, “to check in and seewhat’s been going on since the trip.”Welcome-back barbecues, ongoing

Jewish learning and other social events aretargeted at Birthright alumni, and “I loveto offer them internships” working withIACT, she said, “to be more involved thanthey were a year ago. Birthright is not theend all be all, it’s just one piece of yourJewish journey. Hillel’s mission is to helpstudents make enduring commitments toJewish life, so [the idea is that] their Jewishlife doesn’t end just because the trip ended.”Students can also maintain a continuing

firsthand connection to Israel throughpeople such as Vered Juhl, the Jewish Agencyfor Israel Fellow at the Hillel Jewish University Center at the University ofPittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.She engages with post-Birthright studentsand offers a unique native Israeli perspective. Originally from Haifa, her main focus

as an Israeli emissary, Juhl said, is to help students understand the connectionbetween their faith and the country. “Oneis not separate from the other — Judaismand Israel,” she said.To that end, Juhl works to understand

what students deeply connect with in hercountry, and a popular event she coordinated

Self-discovery continues long after the planetouches down in the United States.

Birthright participants enjoy their new friendships.

Walking through Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda Market, one of many Birthright experiences, is just the start of the journey.

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this year was a photo competition of Israelimages taken on Birthright trips. All ofHillel was invited to vote, and the winningphoto was printed in large format and exhibited at the Hillel entrance.

Juhl communicates with 77 Israeli emissaries on campuses across the UnitedStates and Canada and says the networkenables them to swap ideas and share

successful programs, such as a lecture series that her colleague, Dror Stein, Israeli Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, created. Stein organized monthly lectures on Israel,

which were presented by students frompast Birthright trips who spoke about theirpersonal experiences.Another part of Juhl’s role is to help

students navigate through anti-Israel oranti-Semitic events that may happen oncampus. Overall, she said, students focusedon conveying a proactive message aboutIsrael, not a reaction to negative sentimentor negative actions toward Jews or Israelis.The idea is to “be proactive and educate,”she explained.About 10 students participated in an

innovative pilot program developed with Hillel and the Jewish Federation ofGreater Pittsburgh called ICAP, the IsraelCampus Ambassador Program. Juhl andthe students spent an “intense 10 dayswhere they were able to take what we experienced this year [and discuss] topicssuch as human rights, industry in Israeland everything from the past year we tackled on this trip, and we approached itfrom a unique perspective.”

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˝ With a dozen or so fast-food joints inthe University of Central Florida’s StudentUnion, finding a snack in between class is a breeze — if you don’t keep kosher.But for UCF junior Shana Medel, it’s a

little more challenging.

Medel grew up in a traditional, Conservative household and has been eating kosher style meals since she was 15. She usually eats lunch on campus,

though she’s currently trying to eliminatenon-kosher meat from her routine.Keeping kosher style means she doesn’t

follow all the rules of glatt kosher and will eat in a non-kosher restaurant withfriends. She typically orders only dairy,

but she said she still has to pay close attention to the menus “just in case they sprinkle something on top that you can’t eat.”Orlando, Fla., has a large Jewish

community, but a lot of its members are

secular and don’t keep kosher, she said. “It makes it a little bit more difficult whenit comes to keeping kosher outside thehouse. I definitely wouldn’t say it’s easy,but I think it’s worth it.”She added that keeping kosher in a

secular community requires work and effort. There aren’t a lot of options when it comes to dining out, and you have to becautious of labels.

Fortunately, Central Florida Hillel recently opened the only kosher restaurantnear campus, The Pantry. And as a result,Medel said more students are adhering tovarious levels of kashrut.She added that keeping kosher is

another motivating factor for her to growand be involved with Hillel or with thepro-Israel community.The 21-year-old journalism major was

on the Jewish life committee at Hillel last year, helping to plan Shabbats andevents. Now she’s the UCF Hillel’s chair of communications, managing and promotingthe organization through social media. Medel said being involved with Hillel

makes it easy to keep kosher because thereare always kosher snacks in the kitchenthat she can grab in between classes.“I don’t have to go all the way home.

I don’t have to go search for something in the Student Union that may be kosher,may be kosher style,” she said. “I can just go to Hillel — they’re there to alwayssupport us and to help us understand whywe do the things that we do and help us to keep a greater degree of kashrut or agreater degree of anything when it relatesto Judaism.”— RACHEL kuRLAnD

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The beginning of college can often be an overwhelming period for incoming freshmen who are unsure of which career path they will

take. But students and alumni have foundthat Hillel has served as a platform for becoming leaders of tomorrow.For Rabbi Hayley Siegel, a native

New Yorker who grew up in a Reformhousehold, going to Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., was a life-altering experience due to the relatively small Jewish population there. “It was the first time in my life when I

was a minority,” she said. “I encounteredpeople who never knew Jewish people before. That was something that was verydifferent for me.”Siegel said her parents suggested she

join the Zachs Hillel House as a way tomeet other Jews. Upon walking in for thefirst time, she was greeted with the aromaof challah and brisket. She was able to singalong to familiar tunes at Shabbat services,only, this time, with students leading.“For the first time in my life I saw young

people leading services,” she said. “I hadnever seen people who looked like me andtalked like me before lead services.”Hillel director Lisa Kassow eventually

approached Siegel and asked her to write a d’var Torah for an upcoming service onthe rivalry between Jacob and Esau. Siegelagreed, but was initially nervous. “I didn’t have any knowledge of any

of these things,” she said. “After I gave it, I was totally hooked.” From there, Siegel decided to major

in Jewish studies and take a more activerole in Hillel. “It became clear to me that I wanted to

be involved in the Jewish professionalworld,” she said, “but in what context?”After graduating in 2005, she took a

job with the Birthright Israel Foundation,in which she worked with several Orthodox rabbis. It was at that point,strengthened after finding out she had ahistory of rabbis in her family, that Siegel realized her calling.“I felt like I was home. I felt like I could

really be myself,” she said. “I’ve wonderedwhat my ancient ancestors would think,since I’m a woman.”The following year, Siegel entered

rabbinical school at the Academy for Jewish Religion; she was ordained in2012. She now teaches two courses at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, one of which teaches future converts and interfaith partners about the fundamentals of Judaism.

“They’re trying to figure out what role,if any, Judaism plays in their lives,” she said.The other course is a wedding “boot

camp,” in which Siegel works with youngcouples in planning out every detail of theirwedding, and eventually officiates at it.“I really see it as sort of a formative

step in their lives and their Jewish engagement,” she said. “I just feel very passionate about the specific lifestyle.”Today, a decade removed from her

undergraduate life, Siegel feels it was herHillel experience that gave her the assetsshe needed to become a rabbi. She felt sostrongly that she invited Kassow to be thefirst witness to sign her ketubah. “It was my first exposure to adapt

Jewish events to students who were coming from different Jewish vantagepoints,” she said.Finding a small Jewish haven in a largely

non-Jewish place is often comforting foralumni such as Siegel and SammanthaMarks, a 2014 graduate of the University ofIowa. Marks served as co-president ofIowa Hillel during her junior year, givingher the opportunity to plan programsthroughout the year, including Shabbatservices and formals. Marks and her family moved to

Iowa City when she was 14, and Marks became exposed to Hillel before college

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as a result of watching her mother cook meals for the campus group. “I was super involved with the Jewish

community prior to college,” she said.Marks now works for the Pulmonary

Fibrosis Foundation, a medical nonprofitin Chicago that provides education and advocacy about the disease. She also participates in the Jewish United Fund,which is the chief philanthropic organizationthat is part of the Jewish Federation ofMetropolitan Chicago, and she has also become involved in Chabad of Lincoln Park,where she has spearheaded the formationof a young professionals’ network.“It was a really meaningful experience

to bring young Jewish professionals frommany different backgrounds together,” she said.Marks credits her Hillel experience as

an important tool in uniting people fromdifferent groups in a common cause.“Students don’t understand the network

that you’re able to create when you are involved in Hillel on your campus or on a different campus,” she said.The Jewish leadership bug also found

Nate Strauss at an early age. Strauss is a senior at Michigan State University and president of the Hillel there. He got

involved in BBYO in eighth grade and said joining Hillel when he arrived at MSU was “second nature.”Strauss ran to be a freshman

representative but lost and instead became a residence hall adviser and anofficer in an Israel advocacy group. Late in his sophomore year, some of his friends

in Hillel approached him about possibly running for Hillel president.“They had brought up the idea to me,”

he said. “So they sort of put it in my head.”Strauss said he was “terrified” when

he gave his speech, but ultimately he wonand became president his junior year. He has helped bring a Challah for Hungerchapter to MSU, and he started a Jewish pre-med society. “I got to see a lot of the different

sub-communities that we foster and facilitate,” he said.

Strauss said his experience as president has taught him how to workwith others who sometimes disagree with him and also how to assess the needsof a community.“As president I’ve really learned a lot

about communication with others,” he said.Strauss added that he would like to work

for a pro-Israel nonprofit organization immediately after college but may eventually go to graduate school. The common bond that Strauss, Marks

and Siegel all cite as the factor in their pursuit of a professional career in Judaismwas the level of community they found at Hillel.“I always felt like I was accepted for

who I was, and that was enough for me to walk in the door,” Siegel said. “To have that feeling is very powerful for a college student.”

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No one is surprised to see Hillel houses in the Northeastcorridor, but the international Jewish student life organization has opened its doors far beyond the

metropolitan cities known for large Jewish populations. From the Deep South to the Midwest, Hillel outposts can be

found in some unexpected places; not surprisingly, their successdoes not make them immune to the unique challenges that comewith their locales.“I think the biggest difficulty is branding yourself and becoming

known. It’s unexpected there is a Hillel at Mississippi State University, not only because it’s Mississippi, but because there wasno Jewish group before 2009,” said Daniel Snyder, co-founder ofMSU’s Hillel and a 2014 graduate. “This university is more than150 years old.”Snyder said although the group is small, they are tightknit and

have done a lot to make themselves known on campus. Since theirinception they have brought Israeli singers to perform, Holocaust

survivors to speak, gone on two Birthright trips and run Israelbooths at the university’s International Festival.Snyder said one of the Hillel’s goals is to bring in a full-time

professional to help manage the organization.“A lot of people at my school have never met a Jewish person,”

said Molly Rafaely, past president of the Mississippi State Hilleland currently the graduate liaison. “[They have] not been exposedto Jewish culture, and a large part of what we do is getting information out there and teaching about our religion.”Although the Mississippi State Hillel has grown steadily since

its inception, the small population of Jews at similar universitiesmakes finding Jewish students a challenge. The Hillel’s website explains how Snyder and his co-founder, Rachael Frost, metthrough the school’s band. When a mutual friend told Frost thatSnyder was Jewish, she initially didn’t buy it. It wasn’t until afterSnyder started explaining several Jewish holidays and customs toprove his religious identity that Frost believed him.

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“One of the [challenges] is we don’t have a lot of communityinfrastructure here, [such as] a fully functional [Jewish] federationin Iowa City,” said Gerald Sorokin, executive director of Hillel atthe University of Iowa. While Sorokin is grateful for the resourcesthat exist in his area, tasks that may be taken for granted at otherHillels can become a source of angst. “Even simple issues like getting kosher food is complicated,” he

said. “It’s not out of the question, but getting kosher meat requiresadvance planning and a trip out of town.”Another issue Sorokin pointed out is one that is very important

to all Hillels: finances. He explained that when a Hillel has the support of a local federation, it helps to alleviate the pressure

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of day-to-day stability. If there is no Jewish federation close by, that hole must be filled by the local community and fundraising efforts.“We would not have been able to survive and thrive without

the ongoing support of the local Jewish community in Tallahassee,”said Melanie Annis, executive director of Hillel at Florida StateUniversity. Annis’ Hillel was started in 1981 by professors responding to a perceived need for Jewish students at FSU.“I have to drive several hours for a medium-size Jewish

population and even longer for larger ones,” said Annis. “One ofthe major challenges is being seen when we are so far away.”And that distance can be considerable.For Sorokin, many of his students hail from Chicago, which is a

four-hour drive. For Annis, the Florida panhandle she calls homeis a four- to six-hour drive to reach Orlando or Fort Lauderdale,where she said many of her students come from.This distance was partially to blame for the initial lack of Jewish

students at FSU prior to 1981.“Being so far away, it’s not easy for parents who have to take a

full day off for travel if they come by car or spend several hundreddollars to fly here,” said Annis. “This distance became the reasonmany Jewish students wouldn’t go to FSU as opposed to the University of Miami or the University of Florida.”Ultimately, this distance makes it difficult for the two to make

their respective Hillels known to the larger Jewish communities.When they do leave for trips to raise their visibility and funds, itleaves their organizations shorthanded. “We get calls from Baltimore or New York and they say,

‘We didn’t realize there was organized Jewish life in Iowa,’” saidSorokin. “People are pleasantly surprised at the quality and quantity of the Jewish activity here.”

Despite the frustrations, Annis said that FSU has been incredibly supportive of the Hillel and has done what it can to accommodate Jewish students. She said that during a social eventwith the president of the university, the school provided food forstudents. Because the event took place during Passover, the foodservice staff provided matzah brittle for Jewish students.“It was also a learning experience for non-Jewish students who

didn’t understand why Jewish students wouldn’t eat [certainfoods],” said Annis.FSU has also accommodated students who want to keep kosher

by allowing them to keep secondary fridges in their dorm roomsfor kosher foods.Snyder, Annis and Sorokin are all grateful for the help their

universities and communities have provided, but the belief thatthey are fully funded by their respective universities is a myth. Financially speaking, said Annis, “all Hillels [survive] on

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Students meet the challenge of eating well˝ With classes, exams and partying, it is a challenge for many young adults tostay healthy while in college. So what’s the advice among students at the University of Arizona and the University of Minnesota: Eat a balanced diet andcook your own meals. Rachel Sagar, 21, a senior at Arizona,

said she tries to stay healthy by pacing herself. She eats a lot of fruit, vegetables,grains and nuts and does her best to eat on a set schedule and limit the alcohol she consumes. “I think that being healthy in college

is difficult because there is so much more freedom,” Sagar said. “Partying and

going out encourages bad habits such asbinge drinking, consuming unhealthyfoods and deviating from a set schedule.This is not to say that you should never go out, but do it in moderation and watch what you consume.”She also tries to avoid animal products

as much as possible and makes sure to eatplenty of organic food. There is a grocerystore near campus, so students have accessto more food options.“This can be difficult on campus,

but with some planning and shopping, a plant-based diet is totally feasible to someone on campus and may be evencheaper,” Sagar said. In addition to staying in shape, Sagar

said mental health is also important. Shesuggested finding friends who you feelcomfortable talking to and using campusservices to deal with mental illness.One senior at Minnesota who is

majoring in nutrition said she stays

healthy by cooking her own meals and trying to avoid processed foods such aschips or candy.Additionally, she also tries to walk to as

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˝ Picking the right college for a Jewishstudent not only takes research and a bit of persistence, but also something moreintangible: trusting your gut instincts. If it feels right, it usually is.That’s why it’s important when visiting

campuses to do more than just check out the local Hillel and proximity to thesynagogue of your choice and kosherrestaurants in the vicinity. You should have

a sense this is a place you would like to callhome, whether it’s a major metropolissuch as New York, Los Angeles or Bostonor Iowa City, just a few miles away fromthe cornfields. The folks at local Hillels will be happy to

offer suggestions, but it never hurts to havesome ideas of your own. “I’m happy to bea Jewish tour guide if asked,” said Carrie

Darsky, assistant director at the Columbia/Barnard Hillel, about a 20-minute subway ride from TimesSquare. “But people generally don’t ask uswhat to do in New York. There’s usuallymore inquiries about where to eat.”Across the country at UCLA, where

close to 2,000 Jewish students will gothrough Hillel doors over the course of ayear and have their choice among Reform,Conservative and Orthodox services, it’snot much different.“If they have some time, we might tell

them to do some touristy things,” said assistant director Mike Amerikaner, whopreviously worked at the Stanford Hillel.“Go to the Hollywood sign, the Walk ofFame at Hollywood and Vine, or go to thebeach, which is just five miles away.“But I think most people who stop by

Hillel here have a lot of questions like,‘Where can I eat kosher?’ or ‘Where can Istay while I’m visiting?’”On the other hand, the Shulman

Hillel at the University of Iowa, about a 3½-hour ride from Chicago, is considerably smaller, but no less busy, even if there’s no kosher restaurant in Iowa City beyond the Hillel. “We have a pretty active community,”

said director Gerald Sorokin, who says the

Hillel attracts about one-quarter of the600 undergraduate Jewish students oncampus. “Iowa City is an area where there’sgrowth in the Jewish community.“There’s a great history of creative

writing here, including Kurt Vonnegut andJohn Irving, as well as some Jewish writers.The other thing that draws students is wehave a major medical center, and this is theheadquarters for the ACT testing service.”Still, it’s more likely a prospective

Jewish student will choose a school wherethey will fit in best. “We estimate our Jewish population between 4,000 to 5,000,”said Ethan Sobel, director of student life at Boston University, who adds thatNortheastern, Brandeis, Tufts and MIT allhave Hillels. “We have Reform, Conservativeand Orthodox services, all student-run.“If someone’s coming for a visit,

Admissions will give them a guide forthings to do,” he added. “The typicalBoston landmarks: Fenway Park, FaneuilHall, Quincy Market, the Freedom Trail.“But all prospective students can stay

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Top 60 Private Schools Jews Choose

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*Estimated population figures and other campus information are self-reported by local campus Hillels. For more information on Jewish life at colleges and universities aroundthe world, visit hillel.org/guide.

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46 • Jewish Life on Campus

JEWISH GRADUATESTUDENTS

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50 • Jewish Life on Campus

Real change takes good ideas. And manytimes, those good ideas come from younginnovators. Hillel International empowersstudents to develop and test their visions,leverage resources and connect withmentors to drive change through its SocialStartup fellowship.

Here are some of the dreams that haveturned into reality through hard work,determination and the support of Hillel’sSocial Startup fellowship:

HABITATTEMPLE UNIVERSITY

Habitat is a mobile app that allowsstudents to buy and sell goods within their college communities and connectsstudents to student-led businesses andventures, including food trucks. The app isavailable to students at Temple universityand will be available to 450,000 students inGreater Philadelphia this fall. Habitat isgiving a new platform for students toconnect with each other.

CHAVURAHNEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Chavurah gathers students interested ingrappling with fundamental questionsof Jewish identity. Students pick the

questions to explore and do so in a vibrantpluralistic environment. Chavurah givesstudents ownership over one’s Jewishlearning. It is student-run and student-led,creating a social community of Jewishfriends. Chavurah is a traditional learningspace for nontraditional Jews.

BEARING WITNESSTHE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Bearing witness engages uCLA students to cross intergenerational boundaries by learning with someone who hasexperienced the Holocaust firsthand.Students are partnered with a Holocaustsurvivor for 10 weeks to learn about theentirety of their life, both before and afterthe war. The Bearing witness experiencecultivates memories by honoring thosewho survived the Holocaust and byinspiring a younger generation to keepthose stories alive.

NORTHERN UGANDA MEDICAL MISSIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

uCLA student David Joseph launched a“Rural Emergency Medical CommunicationsSystem” after seeing there was no access tomedical services during his travels to Pader,uganda. Call boxes allowing communitymembers to access medical personnel 24/7were installed in government health centersthroughout the district. These boxesprovide ugandans with immediate adviceand life-saving transportation for free andhas served over 10,000 people in need.

KNOCK KNOCK GIVE A SOCKNEW YORK UNIVERSITY

One night, Adina Lichtman was handingout sandwiches to people experiencinghomelessness when one man approachedher. “It’s great that you’re giving outsandwiches,” he said, “but one thing wereally need is socks.” That night, she wentdoor-to-door in her dorm and asked herneighbors if they would donate just onepair of their own socks. And that nightknock knock Give a Sock began. To datekkGAS has collected and distributed over20,000 pairs of socks.

KNAFEY KESHERUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

knafey kesher (Connected wings) is aresource to instill messages of coexistenceand connection among Jewish and Arabchildren. Students are creating an onlinedatabase of English, Hebrew and Arabicchildren’s literature that contains themes of peace as well as educational tools to go along with the books. The goal ofknafey kesher is to combat prejudice and

animosity on both sides of the intra-Israelicultural conflict from the root.

CRAFTING CONSENTUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

when most people think about consent,they think about intimate relationships.while this is needed, Crafting Consent helps college students identify and createconsent in every relationship in their life:friendships, family and workplace. Studentsdo this through Jewish text study, craftprojects and learning sessions. Then,participants bring what they’ve learned to younger students, building a strongercommunity of consent for everyone.

GRÜMTEMPLE UNIVERSITY

In an age where everything comes to you, barbershops are behind the times.Customers find waiting to be seen by abarber or scheduling in advance bothfrustrating and inconvenient. The Grümapp eliminates these inconveniences byhaving barbers travel directly to the clients.no matter the location, Grüm delivers ondemand barbers to the clients’ homes oroffices. Profits from the app will go towardproviding free haircuts for those in need.

DANCE4EMPOWERMENTEMORY UNIVERSITY

dance4empowerment, inc. is a nonprofitorganization with the mission to organizeand fund dance programs for people withdisabilities. The program creates danceperformances for young people withdisabilities and spends the money raisedon furthering inclusive arts programming.dance4empowerment works to improveself-esteem, social integration and cognitiveawareness for all of its participants.

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“ At Northeastern, Jewish life is inclusive and vibrant. With exciting social events, unique Jewish learning opportunities, and many activities to choose from, there’s something for everyone!”

— Anna Meyers, Class of 2015 After graduating, Anna assumed a staff position as director of Jewish student life for Northeastern Hillel. When she was an undergraduate majoring in Jewish studies, she was president of Hillel and had a co-op as Jewish student life coordinator.

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At Northeastern, you have the opportunity to delve into a range of enriching Jewish studies courses, matched with Northeastern’s unique experientiallearning program offering work, research, study, and volunteer opportunities in Boston, Israel, and all over the world. And with a broad spectrum of activi-ties—from regular Shabbat dinners at Hillel House and transformative Birthright Israel trips, to holiday celebrations and the annual Jews Cruise—you’ll enjoy a dynamic community that students call “a Jewish home away from home.”

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