A new coalition of national Jewish organizations, including BBYO, Hillel International, JDC Entwine, Moishe House, OneTable, Repair the World and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, has issued a call to Jewish community organizations across the U.S. to send...
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, Hillel International will be “working with authors, artists, historians, elected leaders, and organizations that helped to lead the civil rights movement to share their experiences with students and contextualize past experiences with contemporary issues”, according to a press...
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...
This week, two young Modern Orthodox PhDs took up senior positions with national Jewish organizations. Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg has taken up the position of Executive Director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, while Rabbi Daniel Smokler is the new Chief...
Hillel International (formerly, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life) is currently holding its fifth annual Hillel Institute in St. Louis at the campus of Washington University. In a break from the previous four years of holding a national staff...
