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.
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.
In Every Generation – Including today’s students
Passover begins tonight, and teaches us that forever, in every generation, each person must see themselves as if they personally went out of Egypt. Our people’s greatest story is one that we not only remember, it is one we re-live – and one which our children and students will come to make their own. Over the past few weeks, I’ve gotten to watch this happen in real-time, before my eyes, here at Harvard Hillel.
A Mirror, a Seder, a Story Still Unfolding
This program was part of The People’s Plate, our broader initiative using art and conversation to explore identity, memory, and belonging across campus. Throughout the week, thousands of passersby encountered the eight-foot tall installation at Science Center Plaza.
On Shoulders
This past Wednesday night, I had a deeply exciting and enriching experience that I’m excited to share: Harvard Hillel hosted the first installment of a series of alumni community conversations and I had the chance to participate.
Hundreds of Hamantaschen
This week, we held our 3rd annual Hamantaschen Bake, and we set a new Hillel record: 302 hamantaschen. Jews and non-Jews came together to bake, hang out, and recount the story of Purim, and it was one of those events that reminded me why I love this community so much.
Two generations, one story: a conversation at Harvard Hillel
When we think about Harvard and antisemitism, I don’t want us to stop at the question of whether campus is safe for Jews. I want us to ask what it looks like for Harvard to be a place where our community is an example of leadership in confronting antisemitism.
What It Means to Be Home
This past weekend, Harvard Hillel’s newly elected Student Board gathered for our annual retreat. When we reflected on what we most want Hillel to be for our peers, the answer was unanimous: home. A place where everyone is seen, valued, and connected.