Hillel, Jewish Organizations “Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own,…they, in turn, will want to serve our people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 February 2017 Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own...
Hillel, University “Students do not take well to ideological force-feeding…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 August 2016 Of course, the Berkeley Hillel, like all Hillels, is not an island of groupthink...
Hillel, University “There is too much political anger on university campuses today, too little robust debate, too much suppression of robust debate about Israel, too much degrading of First Amendment principles and too much latent and overt anti-Semitism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 July 2016 There is too much political anger on university campuses today, too little robust debate,...
Hillel, University “What is most irritating in some of the criticisms is the myopic vision of the role of Hillels – as if they should be singly engaged in political advocacy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 June 2016 What is most irritating in some of the criticisms is the myopic vision of...
Hillel, Israel “Israel engagement…must enlarge our educators, our Hillel directors, and our student leaders” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 November 2014 Israel engagement, in responding to this micro-crisis and in the work more broadly, must...
Hillel, Young Adults “We must ask ourselves: which behaviors, skills, and dispositions are we hoping to cultivate among young Jews, and how might they best be imparted?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 November 2014 In addition to more funding and more personnel to expand projects of the pluralistic...
Hillel, Israel, University “…there is a strategic error already starting to emerge in the Jewish community’s predictable response to these concerns…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 November 2014 School is back in session, and amidst all the excitement of new beginnings there...
Hillel Hillel professionals “did not go into Jewish education to win a Kafkaesque “color war” mapped onto complex geopolitical realities” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 October 2014 Our colleagues working at Hillels around the country are talented, and they are driven...
Hillel “Hillel is an organization, and organizations have rules…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2014 Hillel is an organization, and organizations have rules. Those who don’t want to follow...
Hillel, Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Jews We invest so much money in Jewish teens and youth and then just hope for the best. It is a misuse of funds unless… Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 September 2013 It is a rare occurrence when I get an e-mail from a Jewish high...