Hillel

Activating Jewish service through partnerships, collaboration - opinion

Engaging in shared service is one way to see each other’s humanity and counter the isolation and misinformation that fuel anti-Jewish hatred.

STUDENTS PARTICIPATING in the National Days of Jewish Service campus cleanup.
 A man has been arrested for arson on suspicion of starting a dumpster fire outside San Francisco Hillel on December 5 while the members were inside.

Man arrested for setting fire to SF Hillel while students inside preparing for Shabbat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on July 23, 2025.

Power struggles emerge in Netanyahu's Likud internal elections ahead of national primaries

Students and others at City College of New York participate in a pro-Palestinian encampment on their West Harlem campus on April 26, 2024.

Imam-led walkout over Jewish participant at CUNY interfaith event draws wide condemnation


Our World: Hotovely and the iceberg

The vast majority of American Jews support Israel. It wouldn’t do for pro-BDS Hillel directors to parade their hostility to the Jewish state in public.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely pictured at Columbia University.

In JPost oped, Hillel leaders apologize for nixing Hotovely speech

In an exclusive letter to the Jerusalem Post, the leaders of Princeton Hillel speak out.

Tzipi Hotovely

Princeton Hillel director cancels Deputy Foreign Minister’s talk on campus

“You are silencing the voice of Israeli democracy,” Hotovely responded to the progressive group that accused Hotovely of racism.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely pictured at Columbia University.

Tradition today: Akiva the maverick

Above all Akiva placed love at the center of his worldview – love of God, love of Israel, love of humanity, love of Torah, love of the Land of Israel.

Rabbi Akiva

Hillel at the Crossroads. Part III: NEU Hillel Protests “Fear-Based Tactics”

The Jerusalem Post

Hillel at the Crossroads. Part I: Who’s Responsible for Hillel?

The Jerusalem Post

Middle Israel: Shammai 1, Hillel 0

It was a clash of personalities: Hillel communicated with the other; Shammai – like Mati Dan – could not even bear the other’s presence.

The Western Wall in Jerusalem