“Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own,…they, in turn, will want to serve our people”
Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own...
Category Archives: Hillel
“Students do not take well to ideological force-feeding…”
Of course, the Berkeley Hillel, like all Hillels, is not an island of groupthink...
“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”
There is too much political anger on university campuses today, too little robust debate,...
“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”
What is most irritating in some of the criticisms is the myopic vision of...
“Israel engagement…must enlarge our educators, our Hillel directors, and our student leaders”
Israel engagement, in responding to this micro-crisis and in the work more broadly, must...
“We must ask ourselves: which behaviors, skills, and dispositions are we hoping to cultivate among young Jews, and how might they best be imparted?”
In addition to more funding and more personnel to expand projects of the pluralistic...
“…there is a strategic error already starting to emerge in the Jewish community’s predictable response to these concerns…”
School is back in session, and amidst all the excitement of new beginnings there...
Hillel professionals “did not go into Jewish education to win a Kafkaesque “color war” mapped onto complex geopolitical realities”
Our colleagues working at Hillels around the country are talented, and they are driven...
“Hillel is an organization, and organizations have rules…”
Hillel is an organization, and organizations have rules. Those who don’t want to follow...
We invest so much money in Jewish teens and youth and then just hope for the best. It is a misuse of funds unless…
It is a rare occurrence when I get an e-mail from a Jewish high...