Today is the day: watch, and give
Before anything and everything else, I invite you to take 3 minutes – and watch this video. If you care about, and especially if you are worried about, the Jewish future – you’ll be glad you did:
WATCH: Why they call Harvard Hillel home
Nathan Gershengorn ‘26 was the president of Harvard Hillel’s student board in October of 2023. He describes carrying Harvard Hillel through the months after October 7th as the hardest thing he’s ever done – and the thing he’s proudest of. Miriam Goldberger ‘28 is our current student president, and her friends joke that if they can’t find her anywhere else, she’ll be at Hillel. It’s been her home since the day she arrived.
WATCH: Welcoming the Class of 2030
This past April during Visitas, our students welcomed admitted members of the Class of 2030 to Harvard Hillel. They ran events, answered questions over piles of bagels, and showed these prospective students what Jewish life here actually looks like. We put together a recap of this year’s Visitas events for you:
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.