Save the Date! On April 11, 2012 Hillels of Westchester will be presenting the award winning film "Miss Representation" in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center at 7 PM. The 85 minute film will be followed by a panel discussion of distinguished women in the media. For tickets, call 914-251-6498. Suggested donation $10.
Fifteen Hillels of Westchester students representing our four campuses volunteered for the UJA Federation of new York Super Sunday phone-a-thon on Sunday, January 29, 2012. After three hours of calling donors, students returned to the Hillel lounge at Purchase College for a leadership training program run by Program and Engagement Associates Catherine Schwartz and Abi Winter.
Purchase College alumna and former Woolf Israel Intern Ariela Haim is participating in a WUJS Israel internship (a five month post college Israel experience). The program is based in the historic and modern cities of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv.
Ruth Kleinman, beloved program and co-director at Hillels of Westchester is taking on a new professional role as Development Associate at Rodeph Sholom, the long established Upper West Side synagogue. Starting January 3, 2012, Ruth will handle a diverse range of responsibilities to support the cultivation of member gift giving including planning and implementing annual appeals as well as individual solicitations. She will also assist in cultivation events, and other a
If you are a parent and need to reach the group, phone numbers for each location are provided in the full itinerary below:
TRIP ITINERARY
Dec 25 - Jan 4 / NYC / Israel Quest
Klezmanukkah, the annual Hillel Chanukkah dance party will be held on Monday December 5th in the Music Building (ground level Room 0078) at Purchase College. This is because real Chanukkah comes after the semester is over. Come join us for live music featuring the Purchase Klezmer and World Music Ensemble at 8:00 PM. Their performance this year features several songs sung in Yiddish. At 8:45, Cantor Uri Aqua will lead and teach Israeli dancing. Come enjoy a great time and have the first latkes of the season.
Dedicated Hillels of Westchester board members as well as local synagogue congregents are volunteering to keep an ample supply of Kosher chicken soup on hand this season. Hillel students will personally deliver soup to bed ridden students on any of our four campuses. Students can contact us through our Facebook group "Hillels of Westchester" or parents can call our office at 914-251-6498.
Announcing an international, paid internship focusing on the fields of diplomacy, policy, intergroup relations, human rights, and non-profit management.
On Friday November 18th students from Pace University, Purchase College, and Manhattanville College came together on Manhattanville's Dammann Hall for a shabbat dinner. While the logistics of bringing everyone together were daunting, Hillel staff delivered both students and a kosher shabbat meal to 38 students. In addition, Purchase resident and neighbor Ellen Brown donated a large pot of chicken soup to the effort. Also attending the shabbat was Hillels of Westchester Past President Stuart Kolbert and Arlene Kolbert.
On Saturday November 12th, Hillels of Westchester students helped greet and register over 400 community guests for Westchester Jewish Council's 2nd annual Evening of Jewish Learning. It was the second Jewish community-wide event this Fall that Hillels of Westchester supported, the first being the JCC- Mid Westchester's "Day of Chesed." This is another example of how we try to give back to the community that supports us.
Eight loving and generous Westchester Jewish families opened their homes to Hillel students on Friday evening November 4th. The project in its third year, is the brain child of Hillels of Westchester lay board member Mindy Feldman. Families and students are interviewed by Mindy and our staff and then matched to make this experience positive and memorable for all.
As part of our on-going tzedek (social justice) activities, students from Purchase College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Manhattanville College will bring food and clothing to New York area homeless shelters. Purchase College students will make their van run Tuesday November 8th, Sarah Lawrence College students will do theirs on Sunday November 13th and Manhattanville on Tuesday November 15th.
After five years as a prisoner of Hamas, Israeli Army Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit has returned home to Israel…to his family, his friends, his people. Hillels of Westchester applauds his return and new found freedom. Am Yisroel Chai.
The Jewish Student Association at Manhattanville College, as one of its community service projects has formed a team for the October 16th "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" event. More than just a walk, the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event describes the progress we're making together to save lives by helping people get well, stay well, find cure and fight back.
Titled the "Westchester Campus Israel Experience", Israel Outdoors in partnership with Hillels of Westchester is sponsoring its own Birthright bus. Students from Westchester campuses as well as students from other colleges who live in Westchester are encouraged to apply. Based on the core Israel Quest itinerary, this program is specially offered to undergrad age applicants from Westchester, NY area campuses. This trip is the perfect way to experience Israel with new friends with whom you can easily stay in touch locally on campus after your return from Israel.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The tent movement is spreading.
In Israel, tent cities are popping up throughout the country as part of a broad social protest against high housing prices in the Jewish state.
In America, Hillel just announced it is planning to set up tents at 20 campuses across the country this fall as places for respectful dialogue about Israel and Middle East issues.
Almost five years after Hurricane Katrina, still glaring is the structural racism and lack of sufficient government support to allow the residents of the Lower Ninth Ward to return home. Empty lots still account for 70% of the area, and little is being done to change this situation. Residents discuss the sluggishness of the Road Home Program in providing funding and how the funds are usually insufficient to begin rebuilding.
This is where I am right now: I’m at a desk in an office doing a job I love (despite the fact that the phones are ringing off the hook today, but that’s what happens when you run a free legal clinic), putting to use all of the Jewish values—torah, avodah, g’milut chasidim—that I impressed upon myself when I was in Hillel.
Hillels of Westchester runs an erev Rosh Hashanah service at 7 PM (Wed 9/28) in the Humanities Theatre (Humanities Building, at Purchase College) followed by dinner. This service and dinner are opened to all students at our four campuses. RSVP 914-251-6498 for dinner attendance. Purchase students can attend services for the remainder of the of the holidays (free) on campus through the Community Synagogue of Rye (Reform) which meet in the Performing Arts Center as follows:
With the generous support of a grant from our Board member Betsy Woolf, Ariela Haim was a Fall 2010 Joseph H. and Evelyn M. Woolf Israel Fellow engaged in pro-Israel activities at Purchase College.
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