Last Shabbat was the fourth annual Orthodox Union Collegiate Leadership Shabbaton in New York City, once again hosted at New York University’s Bronfman Center and at The Brownstone/David H. and Carol Feinberg Leadership Center, and featuring scholar-in-residence Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth. Planning and running the Shabbaton was done jointly by different departments within OU NextGen, including the Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus–JLIC (in particularly NYU

By: Estee Ellis, OU-JLIC student at University of Pennsylvania I emerged from the subway on 86th street, checking my phone for the address of the Jewish Center. A young woman walked by, looked over her shoulder and slowed down. “OU-JLIC Beit Midrash?” She guessed. I laughed at her accuracy, and together we found our way

Semester is Done But Learning Doesn’t Have to be: OU-JLIC Beit Midrash Opens for Winter Break, January 4-8, in New York by:Batya Rosner December 18, 2014 With a focus on the university environment as a marketplace of ideas and experiences that pose both challenges and opportunities to an Orthodox Jew’s observance and commitment, the first ever

By: Michael Herzenberg 11/18/2014 11:48 PM Click here to watch the interview The violence in the Middle East has affected New Yorkers for years. Some have lost loved ones—or experienced the conflict first hand. NY1’s Michael Herzenberg filed the first installment of a two part series. “I love working with people,” says Rabbi Gideon Black.

The Jewish Voice: On Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 By: JV Staff As the academic year is in full swing at colleges across America and with the fall holidays now history, Rabbi Noam and Shiffy Friedman are prepared to look ahead for their first year on campus as the Torah Educators at the Heshe and Harriet

Stephen Steiner, November 4th, 2014 JLIC at Cornell and Ptil Tekhelet Association to Present Lecture on the Rediscovery of Biblical Blue with Nobel Laureate Dr Roald Hoffmann, Sunday, November 9th  Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Roald Hoffmann will be the featured speaker as the Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Cornell and the Ptil Tekhelet Association present: “Science And Judaism: A

How a JLIC couple carved out their own winding path to a fulfilling life mission By: Ari Ziegler The college years are often about journeying out into the world and finding that one thing that speaks to you. And for many people, the map to their ultimate destination is quite different from the one they’d