New Student Center, a Home Base for Anglo Students in the City
Opened in fall 2026, the center gives young Anglo olim undergraduates a dedicated space to study, connect, and belong, with full-time directors on-site every day JLIC announced today the launch of the JLIC Student Center, a new dedicated space built for young Anglo olim undergraduate students living and studying in Jerusalem. The center opened its […]
What We Carry: A Community Evening on Mental Health
Each summer, Jewish communities mark the Nine Days. It is a quiet time of reflection before Tisha B’Av. This year, JLIC Givat Shmuel/BIU and Mizrachi used that reflective spirit to host something different. On July 21, 2026, they held “What We Carry,” a community evening about mental health stigma. Rabbi Nadav and Yaffy Newman opened […]
24 Hours in Tel Aviv
Here was what one day looked like for the JLIC TLV community. A soldier serving miluim in Lebanon sent a message. He asked for help getting a tool his unit needed in the field. A group of volunteers finished the base of a new vegetable garden at a homeless shelter. A team of women spent […]
Something Is Growing in the Negev
Nobody required students to show up on Tuesday night to learn halacha. Nobody made them host Torah discussions in their apartments. Nobody asked them to board a plane to Romania on Shavuot. They just did. That’s the thing about Torah learning at JLIC BGU. Rabbi Idan and Prielle Rakovsky didn’t build a mandatory program. They […]
Did You Know Israel Has a Housing Lottery? Here’s What 20 Anglo Couples Found Out.
Rav Jeremy and Emily Zimmer Tibbetts were in a conversation with a member of their JLIC Jerusalem community, Yvette Latinik, who works at the Jerusalem municipality, when the housing lottery came up. A thought landed immediately: how many of the young people in their community even knew this existed? How many had ever heard it […]
The Orthodox Union’s JLIC Announces Transformational Gift to JLIC at Tel Aviv University
Gift Honors Mordecai D. Katz z”l and Marks the Largest Single Donor Contribution in JLIC’s History NEW YORK, NY, The Orthodox Union’s JLIC announced today that Dr. Monique Katz and family have made a generous gift and visionary commitment to name, in perpetuity, the Mordecai D. Katz z”l JLIC at Tel Aviv University, and to […]
When the Mamad Becomes the Beit Midrash: How JLIC Communities Are Showing Up
Note: This post highlights a sample of what’s been happening across JLIC’s Israel communities. It is not a complete picture of everything underway. What’s been happening inside JLIC communities across Israel over the past few weeks is not a story about cancellations and pivots. It’s a story about showing up anyway. The People Running These […]