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.
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.
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.
President Garber Reflects on Harvard Hillel
Over the past few days, you’ve heard from some of the people who make Harvard Hillel what it is. Miriam and Charlotte wrote about a friendship that began at Bagel Brunch –…
What Begins in Cambridge Continues – and Grows
The first Shabbat dinner of the year at Harvard Hillel is the start of so much more than a new school year. As I look out at a room of…