HILLEL
Israel, Your Campus, and You!
On September 25, 2005, Trinity College Hillel hosted a full day Israel Advocacy and Education Seminar, sponsored by the Connecticut Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, the Israel Campus Coalition of Hillel, local Jewish Federations and Community Relations Councils, and area Hillel organizations. The conference was designed as a kick-off event to educate and energize students from across Connecticut and Western Massachusetts about Israel and promoting Israel advocacy on campus.
Over 60 students from twelve campuses including Trinity College, Yale, Amherst, Smith, Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts, University of Connecticut, the University of Connecticut Law School, University of Hartford, the Coast Guard Academy, Quinnipiac, and more came together to meet and network with their peers. The day started with a session by Jonathan Kessler, AIPAC’s Leadership Development Director, and continued with presentations by Ilan Wagner, the Jewish Agency Representative (Shaliach) to Hillel, David Waren, Director of the Connecticut Regional Office of the ADL, Ben Harris, former speechwriter and spokesperson for the Israel Mission to the United Nations, and Wayne Firestone, Executive Director of the Israel Campus Coalition.
The day ended with a “pitch contest” with campuses vying for a prize of $750 seed money to implement an Israel advocacy and education plan on their campuses for this year.
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Israel, Your Campus and You!
Trinity College Hillel hosts evening at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Memorial to the Holocaust
On October 27, 2004, Trinity College Hillel hosted an exciting evening at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. The program, co-chaired by Trinity mother and daughter alumnae, Phyllis Sheinberg Jay ’73 and Laura Rand ’03, focused on the exciting growth of Trinity College Hillel in recent years and also offered an exclusive tour of the museum. This was the first time that Trinity College Hillel presented a program off campus and the response was overwhelming. Over 200 people attended this elegant event, with a breathtaking view from the top floor of the museum.
Dr. Samuel D. Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College and a renowned expert in Russian, German and modern Jewish history was scholar-in-residence for the evening. Professor Kassow is a Trinity College graduate of 1966. Rabbi Daniel Freelander, a member of the singing duo Kol B’Seder, vice president of the Union for Reform Judaism and a Trinity College graduate of 1973 opened the program with a musical selection that he wrote while a student at Trinity.
Judy and Henry Zachs (Trinity College 1956), were honored at the event for their generous gift that made the Zachs Hillel House possible by Dr. James F. Jones Jr., President of Trinity College.
This 8,000 square foot facility that houses the David and Judith Rivkin kosher kitchen, dining room, living room, multipurpose prayer space, recreational area and Alan and Peggy Mendelson Library, has become the active center for Jewish life on campus. Programming at Hillel has expanded greatly over the past three years with Shabbat services and dinners each week, all Jewish holidays and major commemorations on campus and dynamic, creative programs exploring Jewish culture, history, tzedek (social justice) and the arts. Trinity College Hillel also promotes positive identification with Israel, with an emphasis on birthright Israel, an organization that sends young Jewish adults ages 18-26 to Israel on first time, peer group trips free of charge and many other Israeli cultural programs.
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Evening at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Memorial to the Holocaust,
hosted by Trinity College Hillel (Oct, 2004)