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VIDEO: Yom Ha’atzmaut at Harvard

A few weeks ago, on an overcast April afternoon, Harvard Hillel and Harvard Chabad joined forces for an exuberant Yom Ha’atzmaut BBQ blowout, filled with Israeli music, brisket, falafel, and students taking turns sending each other into a dunk tank.

Our Most Successful Giving Week Ever

When we launched Hillel Global Giving Week a week ago, we set an ambitious goal: $100,000 to support Jewish life at Harvard. By midweek, thanks to so many of you, we were well on our way. When all was said and done, we had not only reached that goal but surpassed our $125,000 stretch goal, raising a total of $136,174, and making this the most successful Hillel Global Giving Week in Harvard Hillel's history.

Hillel Global Giving Week: A Place at the Table

What many people don’t understand is that what Jewish students and trainees face in the medical community is at least as severe, and often worse, than the headlines that have come from Harvard Yard.

Hillel Global Giving Week: A Place to Stand Together

The work isn't finished, and never will be. If you believe in this kind of Judaism, one that is both strong and kind, help us make this dream real, on campus, today.

Hillel Global Giving Week: A Place to Belong

This is what I keep telling friends, and what convinced me to join the board: at a time when the world can feel complicated, overwhelming, and stressful, Hillel is one of the few places in our lives that just lets us be Jewish. Not defend it. Not justify it. Just enjoy it, in good company, across generations.

Hillel Global Giving Week: A Place to be Seen

For four days this spring, The People’s Plate - a huge upright seder plate interweaving the stories of members of Harvard’s Jewish community with the traditional images of the seder - stood at the heart of Science Center Plaza... This week, you can help us keep telling our story, loud and proud.

Hillel Global Giving Week: A Place for All of Us

What is beautiful about Hillel is that it allows friendships to form between people who, at any other time in their lives, wouldn’t overlap in their religious spaces.

Hillel Global Giving Week: A Place to Become

Each day next week, you'll hear from a different voice in our community, about a different aspect of what Harvard Hillel does. I hope you'll read and watch along to understand what’s happening today, and every day, on campus. And I hope that you’ll support Harvard Hillel - because what we are creating is not just what the Jewish community needs. It is what our students need.

A New Way to Give to Harvard Hillel

I'm writing with good news for anyone who has wanted to support Harvard Hillel while also contributing to their Harvard class's giving totals: you can now do both with a single gift.

Who We Become When We Bear Witness

This past Monday, Harvard Hillel and Harvard Chabad jointly welcomed Bronia Brandman, a survivor of Auschwitz, to share her story with our community for Yom HaShoah.