Creating Space for Torah and Community at NYU
On a weeknight in downtown Manhattan, a group of NYU JLIC students gather around tables filled with sefarim, food, and conversation. They come from different backgrounds and levels of learning, but they share one commitment: to make Torah learning a real and consistent part of their college lives. This is the NYU JLIC Kollel, a […]
Miluim Wellness Retreat: A Shabbat for Those Who Serve
Ninety people from JLIC communities across Israel came to the Neve Ilan Hotel over Shabbat, December 26-27, 2025 for the JLIC Miluim Wellness Retreat. Chayalim, miluimnikim, and their families. Some solo, some with spouses and kids. All of them dealing with the reality of reserve duty and what it takes out of you. Rabbi Eitan […]
Five Students, One Rainy Afternoon, and Their First Mikvah Tour
Technion and Haifa U. Students’ Mikvah Tour It was a rainy Thursday afternoon when we set out. Tova Levine from JLIC Technion and Haifa U. brought five students who’d never stepped inside a mikvah building before. One from the UK, one from Brazil, one from India, one from South Africa, and one from the USA. […]
One Flame, Many Communities: JLIC’s Chanukah 2025 Lights Up the World
When JLIC communities celebrate Chanukah, they don’t do it halfway. This year, 30 JLIC campuses and communities across the globe came together under one theme: “One Flame, Many Communities.” Whether you’re lighting candles in New Jersey or Jerusalem, making latkes in Maryland or lighting menorahs in Tel Aviv, the glow of Chanukah connects us all. […]
Building Community One Can at a Time
When a Menorah Becomes a Movement: How Cannorah Turns Chanukah Into Campus-Wide Community There’s something that happens when you stand outside a grocery store in the dead of a Canadian winter, asking strangers to help you build a menorah out of canned goods. Most people think you’re kidding. Then they realize you’re not, and suddenly […]
Thanksgiving in Be’er Sheva: A Community Finding Home
Rabbi Idan and Prielle Rakovsky gathered their JLIC community at Ben-Gurion University last week for a Thanksgiving dinner. Twenty-five students joined them for turkey, pie, American trivia, and a sweet-pie contest that got pretty competitive. Thanksgiving might be an American holiday, but the message of gratitude translates everywhere. When students from Israel, the US, Canada, […]
Bringing Together College Advisors from Across the Jewish Community
Over 30 Jewish high schools from across the US sent their college guidance counselors to the OU offices in lower Manhattan on November 19. Independent educational consultants came too. For many of them, it was their first JLIC event, and they walked away with a completely different understanding of what JLIC actually does on college […]