There is a custom on the night of Hoshanah Rabah to stay up learning (similar to Shavuot night). This year, OU-JLIC’s night of learning at Binghamton University was dedicated to the memory of Ari Fuld, who was killed in a terrorist attack days before Yom Kippur.
With guest blogger, Max Gruber: I am immensely grateful to OU-JLIC’s Summer in Jerusalem program for giving me the opportunity to grow on a religious, professional, and social level. Each morning I begin my day with a minyan of dedicated college students from around the world who care deeply about their religious commitments. Following Shacharit,
Doing this self-assessment will assist you in quickly eliminating schools that don't match your standards and help determine which colleges still under consideration best fit your ideals.
With guest blogger, Gila Samouha: “Excuse me… Do you know where this goes?” I doubtfully asked a hospital employee in my broken Hebrew, holding up a bag of blood. That was the beginning of a very fulfilling summer… As college students begin to get into the groove of the next milestone in their lives, desperately
Rabbi Aryeh and Sharona Kaplan, who have served as the JLIC Directors at UCLA for over 20 years, give an insider’s perspective on the incredible work that JLIC does on campus. We’ve been living and breathing college life for the past two decades. As students, and now as Educators, our days are filled with lots
With guest blogger, Jared Feingold: When planning out my summer six months ago, I was torn in two directions. My soul nurtured by years of yeshiva education demanded its due portion of my time, while the college environment at Johns Hopkins University espoused a summer internship as necessary to building towards a successful career. I
When, Rabbi Joe Wolfson and Corinne Shmuel exited the United States over spring break to visit the Bahamas and renew their U.S. visas, they expected to be back in time to help their college community prepare for Passover. What was meant to be just a quick to the British Commonwealth, took a twist when the