March - 2015

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NETWORKING NIGHT

On Tuesday, March 24th, UD Hillel hosted an awesome “Networking Night,” at the Kristol Center. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the event but I was able to interview a student who did! Junior Evan Torkel attended and had a great, beneficial experience. How was the event set up/how did it work? The event was very informal. After receiving my nametag with your name and major on it, I casually walked around the room having short conversations with all the professionals and

WHY DID YOU PICK YOUR COLLEGE MAJOR? AND WHAT CAN IT TELL YOU ABOUT YOUR JEWISH IDENTITY?

In college, I was a History and Religion double major. If you asked me why all those years ago, I would answer in the following way. "I'm a History major because I really like learning about History and I enjoy the challenge of learning how to think more critically through my study of History.” Regarding my Religion Studies major, I would answer in this way. “I’m a religion major because I really like learning about Religion.” Pretty straightforward, right!? When we choose

UNPLUGGED - STUDENT LEADERSHIP RETREAT

The morning of the University of Delaware Hillel's leadership retreat started with a lot of instant messaging. A group chat that twenty-one Hillel leaders are currently a part of was blowing up: who's wearing what, what shoes are we bringing, where's the carpool information? Our phones are our communication lines, our GPS, our music for the journey from Newark to Wilmington. And they quickly became a much smaller part of our weekend. One of the frist things we discussed on th

SO MUCH MORE THAN HAMENTASCHEN

When I registered to participate in the cooking class at Hillel with Andrea Bock from Jewish Federation, I never expected to get anything more than a few Hamentaschen out of it. When we first arrived, the table was set up beautifully with step-by-step directions, ingredients measured out, and place settings for each person. You could tell that Andrea put a lot of heart and soul into her preparation for the lesson. From the very beginning, I could tell that this was going to b