They Landed Jet-Lagged. By Sunday They Were Working.
College is a fork in the road for a lot of Jewish students. On one side: building a career. On the other: staying serious about Torah and Jewish life. Most programs ask you to pick one for the summer. JLIC Summer doesn’t. This summer, close to 200 students landed in Israel across four JLIC Summer […]
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 […]
The Best Part Had Nothing to Do with the Shiurim
Rabbi Shlomo and Kyra Ashkanazy are the founding Co-Directors of JLIC at Washington University in St. Louis. On June 19-20, 2026, they came to Young Israel of Great Neck as the scholars-in-residence. Not just to give talks, but to sit at the Shabbat tables of the students they work with every week on campus. That’s […]
The Pods Program: How JLIC Rutgers Met Overwhelming Demand for Torah Learning
From the day Rav Matthew and Rebbetzin Yael Nitzanim arrived on the Rutgers campus, students were asking to learn. Not just a few. A lot of them. Women especially were lining up for one-on-one havrutot with Rebbetzin Yael. The requests kept coming, and the energy was real. Two educators. More demand than two people could […]
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 Shabbat and Coding Meet: Inside Yavneh’s First-Ever Shabbaton Hackathon
Every year, thousands of college students compete in hackathons. They pull all-nighters, build things from scratch, and walk away with new skills and new friends. For Orthodox Jewish students who observe Shabbat, there has always been a catch: most hackathons run straight through the weekend, from Friday night to Sunday. For a long time, observant […]