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 […]
The Jewish Life You Didn’t Know Was Thriving at the Technion
I’ll be honest. Before Rabbi Evan and Tova Levine, the JLIC Directors at Technion, walked me through campus, I’d heard the same thing everyone else hears: “There’s no Jewish life in Haifa.” Obviously, I knew better. I see the reports, I help market the programs, I know what Evan and Tova are building up there. […]
150 Yavneh Students Brought Jewish Life to the JNF-USA Global Conference
On October 23-26th, more than 3,000 people gathered in Hollywood, Florida for the Jewish National Fund USA Global Conference for Israel, and among them were 150 Yavneh student fellows, 50 young professional fellows, and 15 staff members representing Yavneh on Campus a program of JLIC. Through Yavneh’s partnership with JNF-USA, students from across the […]
JLIC Binghamton’s Parents Weekend: A Long-Awaited Solution
For years, Jewish families at Binghamton have faced the same frustration. The university’s Parents Weekend often falls during the September-October Jewish holidays, making it difficult for observant families to attend. This year, Rav Jared and Sarit Anstandig, JLIC Binghamton’s directors, decided to create an alternative. They planned a full Family Shabbaton for October 31-November 1, […]
Finding Home: Mishpacha Nights at JLIC Michigan
Every Monday night, students show up at Rabbi Uri and Abby Lorkis’s house for dinner. That’s it. That’s the pitch. Okay, it’s a little more than that. But not much more complicated. You come. You eat. You learn something. You leave feeling a little more connected than when you arrived. They call it Mishpacha, which […]
Torah Learning is Buzzing at Binghamton
If you’ve walked past the JLIC Binghamton Beit Midrash lately, you’ve probably noticed it’s been pretty packed. Between morning sedarim, night seder sessions, and packed shiurim, Rav Jared and Sarit Anstandig have built something real here: a campus where students actually want to spend their time learning Torah. Building a Beit Midrash from Scratch Here’s […]