Last week, an article by Shira Hanau in the Jewish Week detailed the core of the Atwood Affair, in which a fourth-year rabbinical student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah was announced to have been denied receiving rabbinical ordination. For further key...
Trybal Gatherings, which last year launched a series of four-day all-inclusive getaways at Jewish summer camps across the county for young Jewish adults in their 20s and 30s, is back for 2018—with three new camps for young adults. The Gatherings are...
A talk delivered by a scholar recently considered the origins of Christmas. Dr. Amy-Jill Levine delivered the final talk of the fall semester for the monthly speaker series of the Jewish Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach. In her talk...
A recent plenary talk at Hillel International’s annual staff conference focussed on considerations of pluralism in the Jewish community. Delivered by Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, the president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, on Tuesday at the Hillel International...
This spring, a collaborative series of public conversations on Orthodoxy took place between two knowledgeable rabbinic scholars. “Orthodoxy in Theory and Practice” featured Rabbi Dov Linzer, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and Rabbi Aryeh Klapper, Dean of the Center...
An Orthodox rabbi and a sex therapist discuss sex – while this scenario is not common in the real world, a new podcast series discussing sexual matters for Orthodox Jews is focussed solely on that. The new podcast series, “The...
Last week, at Hillel International‘s inaugural Global Assembly, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, the Executive Director of Hillel at UCLA, was recognized for his 39 years of service with Hillel in advance of his upcoming retirement from Hillel this summer. “It is...
At last week’s annual Hillel International staff conference, its president obliquely referenced Open Hillel. Speaking in Orlando at Hillel’s Global Assembly, Eric Fingerhut, having spoken about Hillel and Israel, also seemed to have referenced some challenges that Open Hillel, which recently...
Last week, at Hillel International’s new annual staff conference, Eric Fingerhut, president of Hillel International addressed the crowd concerning the challenges that Hillels, their staff members and their supporters face concerning divestment and other anti-Israel activities taking place on university...
{Previously: Part I: Main Stage & App | Part II: Service Project Opportunity} In my continuing sharing of my experience at Tribe Fest 2014, I’ve got to talk about the food, since we Jews love our food. The jambalaya (yes,...
